Play better cricket.
Pick a side with batsmen who can hit boundaries in the second half of the innings.
Bat second if it looks like rain.
Try picking at least 7 International standard batsmen.
Put a total on the board that when reduced will still intimidate.
Make sure everyone has the D/L table, and at least one of those people is smart.
Win all the non-rain affected games you play.
Invent a better system.
“Make sure everyone has the D/L table, and at least one of those people is smart”
and pray that the one smart person is the captain.
All of the bitching about Duckworth/Lewis is a bit pointless anyway – there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it. It’s a perfectly good system, in fact – when applied in the manner it was intended – i.e. to FIFTY-OVER CRICKET. Twenty20 hadn’t been invented when D/L was first applied, and yet I keep reading all these facebook updates along the lines of “x hates Duckworth/Lewis” and “x is pissed of with Messrs. Duckworth and Lewis for their flawed system” and so forth. No-one seems to be saying “x hates the MCC for not realising that Duckworth/Lewis needs to be tweaked when applied to Twenty20″.
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Can anyone work out a DL score in their head?
No.
Therefore it’s a good system. I honestly think that some people think the DL system causes rain.
A bit like wind is generated by trees waving their branches.