Does the D/L method take account of ‘substitute’ rules?
It would be extremely difficult, and highly inconvenient to the scorers, to make an allowance for the recently trialled ‘SuperSub’ rule (whereby the 11 players in a side of 12 that start the match must be declared before the toss) in carrying out D/L calculations. But as the rule was only experimental, no attempt was made to consider any modification. However, ICC decided in March 2006 that the rule would be discontinued. Games between teams of 12 (and in some cases of 13) are still played in some competitions. Under this rule, 11 of the 12 (or 13) are nominated to bat and 11 are nominated to bowl. This affects the relative strengths of the ten partnerships in an innings and the D/L computer program CODA can be customised for such competitions so that due allowance for this effect is made.
