Frank Duckworth - Co-Inventor of DLS Method Passes Away

Frank Duckworth was an English statistician who holds immense value to the cricketing community. Mr. Duckworth, along with Tony Lewis, also an acclaimed statistician, invented the Duckworth-Lewis method of calculation for ascertaining results and scores in rain affected cricket matches. To the dismay of the wider cricketing fraternity, Mr Duckworth passed away on June 21, Friday.

The DLS method was used in international cricket for the first time in 1997 and was officially adopted by the ICC as a standard method for determination of revised scores in 2001. Australian statistician, Steven Stern made significant modifications to this calculation system, and it was renamed as the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method in 2014.

The ICC General Manager of Cricket Operations, Wasim Khan said to the Press, "Frank was a top statistician who was respected by peers as well as the wider cricket fraternity. The DLS method that he co-created has stood the test of time and we have continued to use it in international cricket more than two decades after its inception."