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Hey guys..I know I'm not a frequent poster here but I regularly check the forums. I have AC09 on ps3 so i have no access to this patch yet. The pre-patched version was rather disappointing for me as batting was really easy and AI batsmen were super-aggressive hence lost wickets which made the rather annoying.
Okay so i have one question: In the pre-patched version of the game it was merely impossible for me to miss a ball while batting i.e. i cought not get any play and misses at all..either it was good or perfectly timed or the occasion invisible edge. So, I wanned to ask whether you encounter a situation where you get a cracker of a ball especially from a quicky and it leaves you dumbfounded and play and miss it (pass the edge).
This is a repeat of a post I did earlier which will hopefully answer that one!
Sorry for repeating. Not wanting t0 spam (I love spamfritters!) but I think it sums it up nicely! (Ooh, get him!)
Okay this is why I love this patched version of the game. I hope I can describe it well because it is tricky, with typed messages, to convey.
You know when you are watching cricket on the telly and the bowler bowls a wicked ball and the batsmen stands there, his body and bat perfectly in forward or backward defensive shot mode, but the ball has already landed safely in the keepers hands, missing the edge of his bat by the width of a gnats knicker elastic!?
Then you look at the slow motion replay...did he leave or did he play? Sharp in-breath of air. That was close, that was very close. He is either very good or very lucky!
Now I know we can't actually leave the ball in that way and the fact is that I played and missed a defensive shot but the emotion is the same.
I literally took a sharp in-breath as the ball whistled past with my batsman (Strauss in this case to a Bolton super ball) standing there doing his: "I knew where the ball was all the time!" pose!
I have had this gripping emotion with this game on a number of occasions now and it is a testament to the developers that they have created something that is exciting and enthralling and conjures up the emotions in this way.
Both with bat and ball this game really grips the imagination. I am in the middle of a wonderful ODI with England facing the Kiwi's (In Melbourne of all places: everywhere else was busy!) and England have scrambled and clawed and fought their way to 102 for 4 of 23 overs.
Some lovely shots (not too many), some wicked bowling, some clever bowling. AI Oram bowled a brilliant over to Collingwood to get him caught in the gully; bowling ever so slightly wider each ball with a strong off-side field...tempting....tempting....gotcha!! Great catch and Collingwood off to the pavilion to find the coaching manual.
Gripping stuff, gripping stuff.
I hope I have managed to convey some of the emotion that this game is now able to conjure up, at least in me! (But I am soppy anyway!)
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