Cricket's weather-break mathematicians

Barney Ronay meets Frank Duckworth and Tony Lewis, and finds them "almost alarmingly garrulous" and "endearingly genial" and discusses their new book Duckworth Lewis: The Method and the Men Behind It. More in in the Observer.

This is the odd thing about Duckworth-Lewis. They attract irrational hostility. "We've had a little bit of nastiness," Lewis says. "There is the hate mail – 'How does it feel to be the most hated person in the world, more so than Osama bin Laden?'