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Tony Lewis Experiences selling mathematics to the cricketing world: market penetration of the Duckworth-Lewis method.

Tony Lewis has recently retired as Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods in Management at The Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK.  He is the co-inventor of the Duckworth/Lewis method of target resetting in one-day cricket, which is used throughout most of the higher levels of the game around the world.

Graduating in Mathematics and Statistics from Sheffield University in the 1960s Tony has previously spent periods at Leicester Polytechnic, Edith Cowan University (Western Australia) and the University of the West of England, Bristol as well as spending short periods in the knitwear and railway industries.

Tony has previously been invited to give many talks on his co-invention and some consequential performance measures in cricket that he has devised, and also on golf handicapping, at conferences variously in the USA, Australia, New Zealand, Barbados and Sri Lanka as well as mainland Europe and the UK. 

Tony’s talk will briefly outline the problems associated with interrupted matches in one-day cricket and the mathematics behind the Duckworth/Lewis method that provides a viable solution.  Considerable emphasis will be placed, however, on the experiences gained from trying to persuade the adoption of a mathematically based method into a world, although used to summary statistics, is generally mathematically challenged.

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