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TRO Saracen Jul 2019 8:37am, 4 Jul 2019 19,086 posts	0 TRO Saracen I'd stick Pakistan in if I won the toss - better chance to win the game if the oppo know they need to post 400+ as a minimum, regardless of conditions etc.
Cerrertonia Jul 2019 8:38am, 4 Jul 2019 10,673 posts	0 Cerrertonia Sudden death single wicket bowl-off. Most of the obvious simple methods (number of sixes, say) have problems with numbers of games rained off, size of grounds, whether you batted second & won easily etc etc.
TRO Saracen Jul 2019 8:38am, 4 Jul 2019 19,087 posts	0 TRO Saracen Agree Fetch, there must be a way to reward a big win whether by runs or wickets otherwise it skews things horribly. The 'Fetch Cricket Thread' method - could be the 'Duckworth-Lewis' of NRR....
Derby Tup Jul 2019 8:39am, 4 Jul 2019 32,619 posts	0 Derby Tup A lot of discussion yesterday on TMS around time it was obvious NZ were not going to try to win the match re NRR. Nobody apart from Statto guy seemed to understand it. It’s been good there haven’t been too many deadrubbers in a big tournament but something needs looking at. I liked the suggestion of a best out of three scissors, paper, stone
TRO Saracen Jul 2019 8:41am, 4 Jul 2019 19,088 posts	0 TRO Saracen Sudden death over pkaying 'matchsticks'. (Anyone else do this at school etc - any disputed decisions, ie ALL LBW shouts, most run outs etc would be settled by playing next 3 deliveries matchsticks, which was with the bat held upside down so you only had the handle to play the ball)
Deinonychus Jul 2019 8:45am, 4 Jul 2019 389 posts	0 Deinonychus Batting with a stump. Club captain broke a stump doing this at training once
SPR Jul 2019 8:45am, 4 Jul 2019 28,291 posts	0 SPR TMS stat guy suggested Duckworth-Lewis. 6 and 4, for minus against (AKA goal difference could work). NRR doesn't really work though if hammering a team batting second isn't the same as doing it when you bat first.
Wriggling Snake Jul 2019 9:12am, 4 Jul 2019 23,196 posts	0 Wriggling Snake French Cricket. On a beach. Best batsman v. best bowler, the rest fielding.
larkim Jul 2019 9:27am, 4 Jul 2019 7,994 posts	0 larkim Can someone wiser than me set out the journey to Pakistan and NZs current NRRs. I know it sounds ludicrous on paper with the current position ref Pakistan, but the reason they are up the creek at this point is the result of 8 matches worth of NRR accumulation. Did any of the individual results in those matches skew NRR in a way that looks "unfair"?
Deinonychus Jul 2019 9:33am, 4 Jul 2019 390 posts	0 Deinonychus That’s the point I was trying to make, larkim. I’ll have a look at the data for the individual matches and see what it reveals.