gyanguru. Its not only about powerplay. There is also mandatory fielding restrictions in one day matches. Don't forget that. And when first rain interupted the match was set for 44 overs i think and India still played few more overs with fielding restrictions.We had similar discussion in the BBC cricket thread.

As written in the rule book which I just saw yesterday  D/L rule doesnot take account of powerplay because it adds too much of mathematical complexity. But yesterday's match should be an eye opener.