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Great work mate. Awesome effort.

Had a mess with all the BA cricket versions over the weekend. Oddly original disc release of DB 14 seems the best... then DB 14 version 1.4 scrapped the edges and the good replays but added poor fielding, less challenging bowling and silly looping throws back to the stumps. We got the edges back...

I just think for the next edition they need to go back to the Don Bradman 14 gameplay and start from there... obviously adding the new stadia, ground editors etc and dealing with the minor faults like the silly run outs. DB 14 is a better basis for a future cricket game. I don't know what...

I went back to playing Don Bradman 14 yesterday. I was shocked. It is amazing how much better Don Bradman gameplay is compared to Cricket 19. The bowling is more fluid, the field settings more realistic, there are outfield catches, there are fielders who actually dive for the ball and...

I've found that as soon as I take out second or third slip accidental edges start being generated that go through the gap. There is clearly some scripting here to provide an artificial penalty when you remove slips. That said first slip seems useless as the keeper always seems to magically leap...

If you'd said a few years ago that racing sims should include contact patch variation, dynamic tyre deformation, chassis flex and air intake performance everyone would have said these were unnecessary and players wouldn't be able to appreciate them. Now they are a standard feature of proper...

Hate to say it mate, but if they can't get ball/pitch wear right, the chances of them programming the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method correctly are very remote! I turn rain off. Living back in England most of my (real) cricketing life is blighted by rain. But I agree it should be there. I think...

Yes I still find it fun (and I enjoy editing teams and stadiums) but I would have thought that a slider limiting swing to certain periods of the game or making spin bowling difficult with a new ball /grassy wicket would be fairly straightforward? Ideally there should also be limits on what type...

I would argue ball modelling is crucial as it affects everything else. In real life ball condition is why in ODIs you give specialist swing bowlers the opening overs, whereas in Tests you would normally throw the ball to specialist steamers. Lack of accurate modelling also means you can bring...

I am not sure I even dare say it but the other big issue is why the white ball swings so much. Just about every world cup bowler who was interviewed made the point it won't swing after two overs... in this game it swings like the red one, all the time on demand.

Just to be clear I have bought all the editions and hope people will keep buying future editions. Cricket needs support from the gaming industry. In my line of work (writing for publication) we expect and welcome informed criticism and so should a gaming publisher. I simply pointed out that a...

Well sorry to come over all Geoffrey Boycott but either the developers are ignorant of the importance of pitch and ball wear in four and five day cricket or they know about it but didn't model it properly. Either way that's pretty rubbish for a game that pretends to model the Ashes where pitch...

I think the problems with pitch and ball deterioration are the most serious of all. Even the oft-derided International Cricket 2010 had a decent stab at this, with old ball reverse swing etc. Come to think of it some of the batting animations in that were better too... I wonder how many BA...

Yes it is hard to make money on cricket games but some were reasonable sellers. Brian Lara was quite high in the game charts all those years ago - and the EA series ran for many editions. In 10 years the middle class in South Asia will be much larger and all their kids will have PS5s and demand...

If you want a The Shoe I'm not a fan of the excesses of capitalism but whatever economic system you have without a likely return on investment there is no investment. I'm afraid the limitations of under capitalisation and inadequate development have been fully exposed with this series.

Developers produce games to make money. The reason why The Show Fifa and PES have such high production values is because they are very profitable. If people had been prepared to pay for cricket games rather than pirate them we would have an EA Cricket 19. I don't like microtransactions but they...

Not all sports games have in game purchases or have purchases that are essential to enjoy the game. Take PES for a start. That said I don't mind paying for quality and extra content if it works Instead many us have spent about 200 bucks on four BA games... and the latest version still has...

Yes just making the point that it is amazing what is technically feasible - what would an EA Cricket 19 look like now. That said I wouldn't mind SIE having a crack at cricket. I love baseball almost as much as cricket and I can tell you that The Show is a BEAST of a game with few serious glitches.

Saving games and reloading seems to influence ball deterioration but it is very odd. Sometimes a ball looks perfect for 65 overs and then suddenly looks old. It's very frustrating as this was pointed out on day one. I am beginning to wish an IPL billionaire would come along and finance a new...

Interestingly modern one day cricket was effectively started by Leicestershire in 1962 when Mike Turner organised the Midland Knockout Cup that then led to the Gillette Cup a year later... http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/510124.html Scrapping the knock out format was a big...