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The PC Beta Group were giants amongst men. When news of a lone surfer missing in the Bermuda triangle came in, I begged them not to go. But they would never ignore a call to action, no matter the danger. As I watched from the PlanetCricket control tower they formed a human pyramid and then...

There have always been some batsmen who played it a lot, although never so many as now. Duncan Fletcher tried to get all his batsmen to play it and bollocked them if he thought they didn't play it enough. Botham and Gatting pioneered the reverse sweep in English cricket in the early 80s and...

I've just played Ashes series over and over and let the stats pile up. There are guys in my England and Australia sides who have over 100 test centuries. God knows how many wickets Anderson has got. I haven't even looked.

Actually now you mention it the fumbles in the field are a terrific update in C24. I only really noticed what had been missing when they put it in.

The big upgrade in C24 is the fielding. Not to say that there aren't glitches or opportunities to steal runs but it's a massive improvement from C22 for anyone who bats long form "seriously". The inability of fielders to return the ball quickly enough from many positions or to gather and break...

I think it says something that a lot of England's greats are guys who specialise in trying to rescue games from imminent collapse. Sooner or later it defaults back to some sort of charge of the light brigade type action because the top order came up short.

Sad to see England fall only 10 sixes away from saving the follow on. Just another 30 sixes might have seen them squeak out a win.

I think it's quite tough learning to bowl spin in environments where there's not a lot in it for you. Probably much better situation in England now then back in the 80s or 90s but I still feel like trying to nail down a first team place at county level bowling attacking spin is a tough assignment.

The real story here is how India have absorbed the attacking batting approach of Bazball, never seen in India before because every Indian batsman prior to this series played exactly like Sunil Gavaskar and laughed at the idea of strike rates above 30. It's amazing how quickly they've got the...

Dean Jones hit a century while afflicted with vomiting and diarrhoea. A bit of nappy changing out in the middle seems trivial by comparison. Plus, Kholi jr will gain useful early experience of test match atmosphere.

One of the biggest moral victories, I think you must mean. England could have easily won the match but instead they chose to honour their commitment to entertaining the crowd by being bowled out ignominiously.

Presumably next time a test side gets blown away for feck all in the 4th innings Ben Duckett will be straight onto twitter to claim they were inspired by English New Wave batting.

T20 cricket has ruined the Indian batting mindset so now they can't compete in the Ashes at all. Even India's greatest ever player Ravi Shastri has 0 Ashes runs, owing to the time he hit 6 sixes in a FC match.

I think we can all agree that today's win for India was a huge moral victory for England.

Got to admit I've wondered about batting in VR. I've done a lot of cockpit type stuff in VR but first person has tended to make me want to hurl, though. ETA this reminds me of the time I bought Skyrim VR and had a wicked time at first but then got progressively more ill until I had to go and...

I don't know if you've ever tried bowling quick with an underwewight ball but I think it's an injury risk. Regardless, it's not just the weight of the ball. They're in trainers on an indoor surface. Pros always take it a bit easy in those conditions.

No idea. They're just not going to go flat out for a videogame becaused there's always an injury risk attached to bowling flat out.

I'm not sure you could expect international bowlers to actually bowl at full whack in a videogame mocap session in an indoor studio with trainers on. Not sure if they're actually releasing a ball. Might be a bit dangerous to acually have cricket balls flying about in a room full of mocap gear...

Are you guys on the crap controls? Spin is pretty playable on classic.

Even going back to DBC14 it's always been possible to batter 4 or 5 deliveries an over out of the park if you get the hang of the timing for a particular shot and then spam it. I do hope future iterations can build in a bit more nuance to the system but to an extent it also depends on how...