Cricket and Broadcasting

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...

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

Broadcasting and NP - completeness

In this note, we answer two questions arising in broadcasting problems in networks. We rst describe a new family of minimum broadcast graphs. Then we give a proof due to Alon of the NP-completeness of nding disjoint spanning trees of minimum depth, rooted at a given vertex.

Parliament, Press and Broadcasting

Discharges from Broadmoor On August 3rd, Mr. Kenneth Robinson asked the Home Secretary what decisions he had made about patients in Broadmoor Hospital whose discharge had been recommended by the Mental Health Review Tribunal to whom applications had been referred by him. Mr. Butler said that in four out of the 88 cases which had so far been reviewed, the Tribunal had advised discharge; in two o...