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Rain-shortened games use the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method

It recalculates a chasing side's target from overs and wickets remaining Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis devised the method in the late 1990s, and it was first used in international cricket at the 1999 World Cup. The statistician Steven Stern revised it in 2014, which is why his name was added. It models the batting resources a team has left rather than simply scaling the score. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Rain-shortened games use the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method: the short answers

Where does this come from, and can I check it?: It recalculates a chasing side's target from overs and wickets remaining. The figure is taken from International Cricket Council, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.