BCCI uses DLS to please foreigners?

Mumbai/Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders captain Dinesh Karthik has expressed his desire to have the current Duckworth-Lewis-Stern (DLS) rain-rule method to be replaced by Jaydevan (VJD) method, after losing their curtailed IPL encounter to Kings XI Punjab.

Chasing 192, Kings XI were 96/0 in 8.2 overs, with a required run rate well in excess of eight runs. But when play resumed after a rain delay, KXIP needed just 29 off 28 balls in the revised DLS target was 125 in 13 overs. “I didn’t understand that bit but I am sure Duckworth-Lewis is something people are still trying to figure out what it is,” an irritated Karthik said.

The IPL is played under ICC’s playing conditions with DLS being the recognised system but Karthik feels BCCI should use Jayadevan rule.

V. Jayadevan said: “Technical committee headed by Sunil Gavaskar had recommended it way back in 2010. But IPL governing council shot down the proposal saying that since overseas players are involved it is better to use DLS. It was really unfortunate. Had it been implemented, I could have developed and improved it further. Gavaskar himself has acknowledged it,” he added.