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Yesterday I traveled down to the Oval in London to watch the Twenty20 Cup quarter-final cricket match between Surrey and Warwickshire. Unfortunately the Bears (Warwickshire) lost in the end but only in dramatic circumstances - a bowl off. Twenty20 cricket is different to the normal game in that you only have 20overs to get as many runs as possible. Surrey managed a decent target for Warwick but it should have been possible for them to get. It, however, became very dark and even started to rain. This meant the Duckworth-Lewis method (see: [CricInfo] for more on this) had to be applied for the scoring and thus reducing the overall score needed by Warwickshire at the loss of 5 overs. Warwick then went on to get the exact score required for a draw (with the final two runs coming off the last ball), after losing the exact same number of wickets!
The interesting scenario of a bowl off now occurred, after the teams took about 20 minutes to agree this was the appropriate course of action. This is like penalties in football and is the first time it has occurred in the competition. Unfortunately Warwick lost, but it was a very interesting game - well worth going. I took some pictures of the wonderful Oval so expect these to be posted at some point soon.
For more info see: [BBC Sport]