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Stress Tension and Duckworth Lewis

Thank God World Cup is over at last. Not that I am not interested but it took away 15 to 20 of my productive days. I remember dur6ing my office days my staff used to ask me, "Saab aaj jaldi jana. Match dekkna ka....".  Yet it was thrilling to watch the finals.  Sach a thrilling match I have never seen, tilting the balance one way and the other in favour of both England and New Zealand. I remained a New Zealand fan after the Indian exit  and so I believe they worked out very hard. Ultimately luck favoured the English team. New Zealand fought well and were defeated. I recall the match against New Zealand that India played which was carried over to the next day. There is a comfortable school of thought which argue that had the game were played on the same day India would have won. I was remembering the night watchman concept of yesteryear's cricket when Gibbs or Bedi will come down to play at 4.25 PM when a main batsman gets out. Now all are batsmen and the 11th man...