John> So each legitimate delivery of Chavan's brought a wicket. :)
John> Looks like they transposed the runs and wickets, though that still
John> leaves the mystery of the maidens figure.
Since people are in the mood for deciphering cricket scorecards, here
is an old puzzle I posted earlier on RSC.
Alun Thomas and Chris Waterworth solved it then, so if you haven't
seen it before, try and desist from looking it up on Google :-)
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Well .. this is something interesting I'm chewing on, and I felt that the
rest of the group would like it too.
(Hoping for a great start to the India-NZ series)
==========
For those who are jobless enough (and interested enough in cricket, I
suppose) here is a problem which was in Bradman's book on cricket.
Warning .. It is tough
Here is a scoreboard after which there are a few questions:
Atkins 6
Bodkins 8
Dawkins 6
Hawkins 6
Jenkins 5
Larkins 4
Meakins 7
Perkins 11
Simkins 6
Tomkins 0
Watkins 1
Extras 0
Total 60
Bowling:
O M R W
Pitchwell 12.1 2 14 8
Speedwell 6 0 15 1
Tosswell 7 5 31 1
Extra conditions:
Runs scored in 4's and Singles
No Catches, short runs (Batsmen cross only iff a single is scored)
Speedwell & Tosswell each bowled one spell
Scoreboard is in proper order
(i.e Pitchwell bowled the first ball to Atkins etc.)
Questions: Whose wickets did Speedwell and Tosswell get?
Who was not out?
At what scores did the wickets fall (with the order in which
the batsmen fell of course :)?
Disclaimer: I do not know if the solution is unique but there is a solution
--
Pip-pip
Sailesh
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~sailesh