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Originally Posted by marc71178
Myth and bull****.
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South Africa, playing England, needed
22 off 13 balls when it rained. By the time it stopped, they needed
21 off one ball.
Take away 12 balls and only 1 run? If that ain't a mugging then I don't know what is.Lewis was going over 7 a over and further everyone but De Freitas and Lewis had their 10 overs. McMillan and Richardson was gong at a run a ball.
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Twelve minutes of rain was all it took to wreck a classic contest and produce the sort of farce that so often crops up when cricket's regulations get themselves in a tangle. In theory, the organisers had come up with a clever ploy to cope with rain interruptions - the reduction in the target was to be proportionate to the lowest-scoring overs of the side batting first, a method that took into account the benefits of chasing, as opposed to setting, a target. That didn't work so well, however, when the chase had been all but completed, and South Africa were made to rue Meyrick Pringle's excellent figures of 9-2-36-2. At first the scoreboard showed a reduction to 22 off seven balls, and then moments later, it read 22 off one (which should in fact have read 21 off one). Brian McMillan patted Chris Lewis' last ball for a single, and set off for the pavilion looking as furious as England - deserved victors, if truth be told - were embarrassed.
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Even though a reserve day had been set aside for the semis, the demands of the host broadcasters, Channel Nine, were such that the match had to be completed there and then. "South Africa's chances of reaching the final floundered on a rule which no-one had bothered to think through," wrote John Woodcock in The Cricketer. "For so important an event to be reduced at times to a lottery must have been a source of great embarrassment to the organisers, though to the best of my knowledge they came nowhere near to admitting it. It is difficult to avoid the impression that the Australian Cricket Board are obliged to defer to television, by which I mean to Mr Packer's Channel Nine and all their delirious ways."
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Great World Cup Moments: A rain-rule abruptly ended South Africa's inaugural World Cup campaign | Timeline | ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 | ESPN Cricinfo
Just to explain it in short. Because South Africa
bowled 2.1 maiden overs that meant they will take away 12 balls and no reductions in runs.
Badoom Tis!!