{"id":1044,"date":"2026-10-25T07:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bulletnews.in\/?p=1044"},"modified":"2026-10-25T07:42:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T02:12:00","slug":"explainer-what-is-the-dls-method-and-how-does-it-set-targets-in-rain-h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/explainer-what-is-the-dls-method-and-how-does-it-set-targets-in-rain-h\/","title":{"rendered":"Explainer: what is the DLS method and how does it set targets in rain-hit matches?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When rain stops a limited-overs match, the Duckworth\u2013Lewis\u2013Stern (DLS) method is used to set a fair target for the team batting second.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is that a team has two resources: the overs left and the wickets in hand. The method works out how much of these resources each side had, and scales the target so that a team with fewer overs still faces a fair challenge. A team that has lost few wickets can afford to hit harder, so it has more resources than a team that has lost many.<\/p>\n<p>Under DLS, the target after an interruption is usually shown as a revised score and a revised number of overs. The calculation is done by software with agreed tables, and the match officials announce the result.<\/p>\n<p>This is why a team can win a rain-hit game while scoring fewer runs than the other side.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When rain stops a limited-overs match, the Duckworth\u2013Lewis\u2013Stern (DLS) method is used to set a fair target for the team batting second.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[30],"class_list":["post-1044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cricket","category-sports","tag-explainer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bulletnews.in\/telugu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}