| One-Day cricket's eternal problem is how to fairly account for
an interruption that occurs during a team's innings. Several methods
have been applied in the past, some more successfully than others.
Numerous articles have been written about different target resetting
methods applicable in one-day international cricket and how they "favour"
one team over another. In this paper we use an alternative approach
looking at the psychic ability of four target resetting methods and
compare how well they predict the final score based on the present
state of the first innings. We attempt to convert each of methods
we investigate into a ball-by-ball predictive tool. We introduce a
terminal interruption to the first innings at every ball and compute
the predicted final score. We ascribe a nominal value to the difference
between the final achieved score and the prediction given by each
method. We compute our own 'Psychic Metric' to enable a comparison
between the four methods. We also develop a computer package to manipulate
the data from matches in which the first innings was completed.
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WORDS: Cricket, predicting scores, psychic abilities.
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