How Nepal won through D/L method?

On 16 March 2023, Nepal and the United Arab Emirates were playing ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup League 2 at Tribhuvan University's Cricket ground. UAE scored 310 runs in the designated 50 overs losing six wickets. Nepal had scored 269 in 44 overs in a loss of six wickets and the game stopped due to a light (visibility) problem. However, Nepal won the match with 9 runs based on DLS (Duckworth-Lewis-Stern) method and qualified for ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Qualifiers.

Some of you might be worrying about the calculations of the method and I am trying to simplify it here. First of all, we need to have the DLS table for calculations.
Since there were 6 overs left for 50 overs and Nepal lost 6 wickets, the table for that condition corresponds to the value, of 16.4.  This simply means Nepal has 16.4% of resources or runs left.  While comparing with UAE's run rate, if UAE would have not used 16.4% of their runs or considering the use of 100%-16.4% = 83.6% of the runs only, their total runs would be 311*0.836 = 259.99 runs. So in a situation of 44 overs and with a loss of 6 wickets, the total score for UAE would be 260 where as it was 269 for Nepal. Hence, Nepal won the match with 9 runs. 

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