Hot Cricket

Just not cricket
30 May 1998
From New Scientist Print Edition.
By Barry Fox.

George Helps of Sevenoaks thinks he can make cricket more exciting by reducing matches to a single innings, and has filed a patent for his idea (GB 2 315 416). The match starts with team A declaring a notional first innings score, which is the number of runs it thinks it might have scored had it played a first innings. This score is then offered to team B, which can either adopt the score as its own and take the field to bowl at team A, or decide to bat, assigning team A the notional score. One innings is then played to decide the match.

From issue 2136 of New Scientist magazine, 30 May 1998, page 11.