Aggrieved Jayadevan alleges bias

A dejected V Jayadevan, who sought replacement of the controversial Duckworth-Lewis method with his own system in limited-over cricket, has approached the ICC President Sharad Pawar for a neutral review of his method.

Alleging bias, Jayadevan said one of the experts in the ICC Cricket Committee, which recently evaluated his system and rejected it, behaved like a spokesperson of Duckworth and Lewis method and thus his system should be re-evaluated by neutral experts.

In its recent meeting in London, the ICC Cricket Committee, headed by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, had decided that there was no need to replace the D/L method by the VJD method. Jayadevan, an engineer from Kerala, wrote a letter to Pawar, explaining to him
in detail why the method should be considered again.

“Many people in the cricket community, believe the VJD System is a better system than the D/L. For the last 12 years, I’m trying hard to convince the authorities about this,” he said.

“I feel that it is the commitment of ICC to provide the best available system to the cricket community. I have no hesitation in saying that the said expert’s strong favoritism to the D/L system deprives the ICC from getting the best available method for the last so many years,” he wrote.