Chairman Gordon McLeod has confirmed the Warrnambool and District Cricket Association is looking into the results of two matches played in division one on Saturday.
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He said the Duckworth-Lewis system used in the Brierly-Christ Church versus Russells Creek and West Warrnambool versus Wesley-CBC matches would be examined this week.
"At this point it's been referred to the WDCA for the match committee to thoroughly go through all the data that needs to be entered into the Duckworth-Lewis system," he said.
"And the match committee will then determine the outcome in results of the matches in question."
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The system is used to calculate the target for the team batting second in a match interrupted by circumstances such as inclement weather.
McLeod explained the association adopted the Duckworth-Lewis system this year after using a different one in previous years.
He said it was a method used Australia-wide and the best way of catering for wet weather or other interruptions.
McLeod said there was a board meeting on Monday night and the match committee would gather all the data available.
"We want to make sure it's done thoroughly," he said.
The chairman said clubs would be advised once outcomes were determined.
Coach Alastair Templeton said West Warrnambool contacted McLeod about how the Duckworth-Lewis was used in Saturday's matches.
He said players from different teams called each other on Saturday night asking how their totals were calculated.
West Warrnambool was 2-107 after 33.1 overs against Wesley-CBC when rain interrupted play according to MyCricket.
Meanwhile, Brierly-Christ Church was on 2-111 against Russells Creek after 33.1 overs when the downpour hit.
Wesley-CBC was told to chase 95 runs off 25 overs, which it achieved with two balls to spare.
Creek had to chase 160 from 33 overs which it didn't reach.
While Brierly-Christ Church and West Warrnambool's batting scores were similar, their oppositions ended up chasing vastly different totals.
"There seems to be a bit of a gap between how it was calculated in a couple of different games," Templeton said.
Templeton also raised concern about the Duckworth-Lewis in the Merrivale versus Allansford-Panmure match.
The Panthers mentor said it seemed hard to justify how all those Duckworth-Lewis totals were correct.
Templeton said he was not disputing the result of his team's match but rather the system used to calculate the Duckworth-Lewis.
He also doesn't blame the umpires and instead wonders what the WDCA's Duckworth-Lewis procedure is.
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