Vision and cricket

Bollywood motifs: Cricket fiction and fictional cricket

Cricket interruptus: fairness and incentive in interrupted cricket matches∗

We present a new adjustment rule for interrupted cricket matches that equalizes the probability of winning before and after the interruption. Our proposal differs from existing rules in the quantity preserved (the probability of winning), and also in the point at which it is measured (the time of interruption). We claim this is both fair and free of incentive effects. We give several examples o...

Divine Vision: Islamic Arts and Horizontal Thought

Islamic arts are often identified by their abstract compositions based on geometric principles and spiritual concepts. Using artworks from different eras, this paper highlights the presence of a particular model of thought in Islamic arts in which the hierarchy of perspectival vision is abolished. The main argument is based on the ability of some artworks to be looked at from any angle while ma...

postcolonial perception and vision: lawrence buell’s ecocritical reading of wole soyinka’s selected plays

این پایان نامه سعی بر این دارد که تصویری از آنچه طبیعت در ادبیات پسااستعمارگری بدان شبیه است ارائه دهد. وول سوینکا، نویسنده ی اهل نیجریه و برنده ی جایزه ی نوبل ادبیات، در نمایش نامه های برجسته اش به نام های رقص جنگل ها (????) و ساکنین مرداب (????) محیط را به عنوان ویژگی ذاتی در ادبیات پسااستعمارگری به تصویر می کشد. بعلاوه، وول سوینکا دیدگاه و درک پسااستعمارگری خود را بواسطه ی پایداری گرایش های ...

Duckworth-Lewis and Twenty20 cricket

Originally designed for one-day cricket, this paper considers the use of the DuckworthLewis method as an approach to resetting targets in interrupted Twenty20 cricket matches. The Duckworth-Lewis table is reviewed and an alternative resource table is presented. The alternative table is constructed using observed scoring rates from international Twenty20 matches. A desideratum of a resource tabl...