Duckworth Lewis System! Is It Successful?

Rain impacted cricket matches have been a feature in international cricket since ages. There have been many interestingly poised cricket matches washed out with rains in all parts of the world. One day matches have been affected more directly due to the shorter nature of the game, and lack of adequate time available to recover the match. Many people came up with different ideas to calculate the victors in these rain affected cricket matches. In the beginning, if we lost half an innings due to rain, people just calculated the run rate for setting the target in the next innings. This was however really misleading as most teams would be playing themselves in or consolidating in their first innings when the rain arrived. As a result, their run rate was lesser than what the final run rate was likely to be. It also did not take into account the number of wickets that were lost during the first innings...........Duckworth Lewis System! Is It Successful?