Can someone please explain the Duckworth/Lewis method?

[Doggy Styles]

All that effort and it still ends in a draw.

Actually, Duckworth/Lewis is only used in limited overs games, which don't have draws. Such a game can be an abandonment or 'no result' due to inclement conditions, like weather or a sudden coup d'etat, or finish in a tie. But it is not a 'draw'.

[Ticktock]

Can someone please explain the Duckworth/Lewis method?

It's when Jack and Vera go to Oxford to help solve murders.

[VectraMan]

All that effort and it still ends in a draw.

[minestrone]

It is a lot of balls of you ask me.

[stek]

Ohh a Rickenbacker. Looks like a poverty spec 330 though...

[DaveB]

How did New Zealand need a high target than South Africa from the same number of overs?

It includes wickets lost as well as overs remaining.

A team with more wickets left and the same number of overs can afford to play more aggresively and so increase their run rate. This means they get set a higher total.

Alternatively

[eek]

How did New Zealand need a high target than South Africa from the same number of overs?

You could use google to find the duckworth-lewis website and then check their FAQs where (strangely enough) this is the second question...

Duckworth-Lewis.com - FAQ

When the interruption occurs during the first innings, so that the match is shortened to one of fewer overs per side than it was at its start, Team 1 are usually more disadvantaged than Team 2. Before the stoppage they had been pacing their innings in the expectation of receiving say 50 overs and would not have taken the risks of scoring as fast as they would have done had they known their innings was to be shortened. Team 2, on the other hand, know from the start of their innings that they have the reduced number of overs and can pace their entire innings accordingly. Team 2 are set a higher target to compensate Team1 for this disadvantage.

[SimonMac]

How did New Zealand need a high target than South Africa from the same number of overs?