Tony Lewis (mathematician)

Anthony John Lewis MBE (25 February 1942 – 15 March 2020)[1] was a mathematician who, along with Frank Duckworth, developed the Duckworth–Lewis method of resetting targets in interrupted limited-overs cricket matches.[2][3]

For other people with the same name, see Anthony Lewis (disambiguation).
Anthony John Lewis

MBE
Born25 February 1942
Bolton, Lancashire
Died15 March 2020(2020-03-15) (aged 78)
EducationKirkham Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Sheffield
OccupationMathematician
Known forDuckworth–Lewis method

Personal life

Lewis was born in Bolton, Lancashire. He attended Kirkham Grammar School and graduated from Sheffield University with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.[4]

Lewis was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.[5][6]

Lewis died on 15 March 2020, aged 78.[1][7]

Career

Lewis was formerly a lecturer at the University of the West of England (UWE).[5] In January 2008, he retired as a lecturer in Quantitative Research Methods from Oxford Brookes University.[8]

He was also a former chairman of the Western Operational Research Discussion Society and was a keynote speaker at the Second IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Sport in 2009.[4] Lewis also undertook various consultancy roles in England and Australia.[8]

Duckworth-Lewis Method
Main article: Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method

In the 1980s, Frank Duckworth had proposed a method of resetting targets in interrupted limited-overs cricket matches.[9] After the 1992 Cricket World Cup, commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins asked for a better calculation system.[9] Lewis read Duckworth's 1992 paper Fair Play in Foul Weather and together they devised the Duckworth-Lewis Method.[9] In 2014, Steven Stern became custodian of the method, and it was renamed the Duckworth–Lewis–Stern method.[5][9]

References
  1. "Tony Lewis - England". ESPNcricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 31 December 2011.
  2. Longmore, Andrew (16 May 1999), "First Night: Duckworth–Lewis: The odd couple getting even with the weather", The Independent, London, retrieved 25 May 2010
  3. Richards, Huw (18 February 2003), "How two statisticians became stars", New York Times, retrieved 25 May 2010
  4. IMA Mathematics in Sport Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine conference web site.
  5. "Tony Lewis: Cricket statistician of the Duckworth-Lewis method dies aged 78". BBC Sport. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  6. "No. 59446". The London Gazette (Supplement). 12 June 2010. p. 19.
  7. Sharwood, Simon; at 06:41, APAC Editor 3 Apr 2020. "Cricket's average-busting mathematician Tony Lewis pulls up stumps". Retrieved 2020-04-13.
  8. "Tony Lewis, co-creator of the Duckworth-Lewis method, passes away aged 78". The Cricketer. 2 April 2020. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
  9. Miller, Andrew (2 April 2020). "Tony Lewis, of Duckworth-Lewis rain-rules fame, dies aged 78". ESPN Cricinfo. ESPN. Retrieved 2 April 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.