Currently sides gain four points for a drawn game, and twelve if they complete a victory, before bonus points for batting and bowling in the first innings.

However, in each of Lancashire’s matches this season, it has been the weather more than their inability to take twenty wickets which is cost them, on two occasions, maximum points.

These are the three possible solutions that come to mind:

- Forget all about bonus points and just simply have a set number of points for a win, and a set number for a draw.
- As Stuart Law suggested recently, take up the Australian system, which gives a number of points for a first innings lead, and then more if you go on to complete the victory.
- Use a different points system for a game where a certain number of overs have been lost (i.e: if 80 overs had been lost, a drawn game would result in each side gaining six points, instead of four)

Lancashire’s bad luck with the weather

v Surrey First Innings: Lancashire 599, Surrey 280
v Nottinghamshire First Innings: Lancashire 354, Notts 275
v Middlesex First Innings: Lancashire 565-7 dec, Middlesex 304
v Essex First Innings: Essex 215, Lancashire 375

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