Anthony John Lewis MBE (25 February 1942 – 15 March 2020)[1] was a mathematician who, along with Frank Duckworth, developed the Duckworth–Lewis method of resetting targets in limited-overs cricket matches interrupted by weather or other circumstances.
He attended Kirkham Grammar School[4] and graduated from Sheffield University with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics.
[9] He was also a former chairman of the Western Operational Research Society[10] and was a keynote speaker at the Second IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Sport in 2009.
[9] In the 1980s, Frank Duckworth had proposed a method of resetting targets in interrupted limited-overs cricket matches.
[11] Lewis read Duckworth's 1992 paper Fair Play in Foul Weather and together they devised the Duckworth-Lewis Method.