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  1. blockerdave

    Draft: 22 Degrees of David Gower

    Hello all. Not been in these parts for a while - busy at work! love me a draft, and to celebrate David Gower being added to the commentary roster for the upcoming cricket 22, I have me a draft idea. simple really - pick a Test XI having no more than 2 degrees of separation from David Gower...
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    Draft: (Blocker)Chain Draft 2 - first impressions last.

    With the blocker chain draft coming to a close, i was thinking of canvassing 6-7 sign-ups for a second similar draft. In this draft, everyone has a completely free choice for their first pick among any player with a test cap. But here’s the catch... for every subsequent pick, each player must...
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    Draft: The Block(er)Chain Draft

    Hi all. Drafts seem to be a bit quiet but I’ve had one bouncing around my head for a while so thought I’d see if there is any appetite for it. A simple yet challenging premise. We are picking a FC/Test team. First player can pick any player that has played at least 1 FC game. After that, each...
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    England in the 90s

    I am going to try and play through the 90s as England, playing as many of their test series in order as I can. (I'll only be playing tests.) At the start of the 90s, England hoped for a "New Dawn"... the 80s were a poor decade, returning just 20 Test victories from 104 matches, as well as...
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    Teams of the Decade - a competition story

    Inspired by a draft thread in which we were picking the best players of the decade 2010-2019, I decided to turn them into cricket 19 squads and play a competition. Players were selected on their test records in the decade, and it was a turn-based draft so the squads don't reflect everybody's...
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    80s "Fantasy" Test League - battle of the all rounders: contains video of best AI ball of all time

    The 80s is known as the era of the great all rounders - Ian Botham, Kapil Dev, Imran Khan and Richard Hadlee all in their pomp. It might be less well known that here were two other fantastic all rounders in the 80s that never played a single test match. Clive Rice was prevented from playing...
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    Blockers bits... (retro)

    Just containing my various uploads into a thread as I've started to get some teams and stuff up on the server. First up, and standing on the shoulder of giants so to speak - I have shared versions of @gleeso73 England 30s (added Tommy Mitchell) and Australia 30s (added Perker Lee, Lisle Nagel...
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    Story The Ashes in the 90s

    Playing the 90s - currently at 2nd test of the 1990/91 series (first test drawn). Will provide more details later, but just to say: there are few better gaming feelings than playing shots like this with David Gower...
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    Blocker's Ashes Thread

    As I mentioned in the beta thread, I played a nice test match over the weekend on PS4. Story has been told already, but to refresh: I made 423 all out; Aussies responded with 476 largely thanks to a huge 9th wicket partnership between Wade (101) and Lyon (74*). I struggled 2nd innings all out...
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    FOOTBALL fifa 18

    Anyone got it? Any good? i haven't played fifa for about 10 years? Is it possible to play competitions / seasons with Spurs / England? Like a single premier league season, a world cup etc.? I have zero interest in story modes, career modes, and I wouldn't play FUT with a gun to my head...
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    AMA AMA BD

    I know I'm late to this party but it's entirely because @Dutch has been asking me to do this via PM for a month...
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    Retro Ashes

    In anticipation of hopefully an academy release soon (cough cough @Ross) I was wondering if we could collate / organise some retro Ashes players, logos, bats etc.
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    any multichain experts?

    what it says really? any multichain experts, particularly in terms of customising assets? wanting to run a concept past someone and verify if i'm off with the fairies.
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    Story England in the 1980s

    The 1980s was a turbulent decade for English cricket, characterised by scandal, players banned for rebel tours or drug-taking, selectorial inconsistency, and defeat: lots of defeat. Among the low points of the decade were two 5-0 "black wash" defeats vs the West Indies, first ever series losses...
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    AI Chase Capitulations...

    Has anyone experienced anything remotely like this? This is the AI chasing in T20s, on AI Legend, bowling hardest. It's very strange, since batting first there didn't seem to be such a weakness.
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    A question for standard PS4 users

    What custom stadiums if any have you been able to play in successfully without too much stutter post the last patch? As my rebel tour thread showed, pre patch I could play in some custom stadiums fine. Now I can't due to the stutter when the AI bowlers runs in. So what stadiums can you play...
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    Story World Cup 1992 - played as T20: Match 3 ENGLAND V SRI LANKA

    As I've finally completed the teams, I'm playing the 1992 World Cup. As a little twist, I'm playing them as T20s. The format will follow exactly the 1992 tournaments, so a single group of 9 playing each other once and then the top 4 going into the semi-finals. The 1992 World Cup is famous as...
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    The Retro Thread - links in OP

    I don't know if anyone else is interested in retro stuff, 70's, 80's, 90s etc. Very keen to share details of uploads of players, kits, bats, squads and logos etc. from these eras if anyone has done any, will be working on any etc. So this is not just a thread for my stuff, but a thread for...
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    Story The Rebel Tour Thread - links to all reports and videos in OP

    Hi All, First of all a massive thanks to @Llewelynf for making the logos for me. With all the other work he's been doing to have taken the time to do such quality work for a niche project like this is truly generous. This community and this game is lucky to have him and the other creators...
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    The official blockerdave review...

    If I had to sum up DBC17 in a short pithy phrase, I'd say @BigAntStudios have fixed what was broke about DBC14, and broke what was fixed. That is of course using poetic license, as I don't believe either game is "broken", though the UX/Navigation in DBC17 is close to broken. It's certainly not...
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