- With auto fielding and a Custom field with the mid on and mid off pushed as close to the pitch as possible, computer batsman tend to run after the fielder at mid on picks up the ball. Since he is only metres away from the stumps and already has the ball, this almost always results in a run out. This seems to occur when both the batsman and fielder are in the screen together with the camera view looking forward towards the pitch, with the fielder running towards the pitch sorry for the convoluted description, but I?m trying to make it easier to replicate the situation]. It happened no less than five times in my last ODI match alone. This has happened on Medium difficulty level; I have not tried this with the others yet.
- The commentary is frequently incorrect, calling maiden overs ?very expensive?, using a dismissed batsman?s name instead of the bowler in ?X runs off that over from [player]?, incorrectly calling the number of runs scored off an over, being one behind on the over rate and so on.
- The fatigue bar does not appear to work at all.
- With one of the particularly aggressive computer fields (with the CPU bowling), there is a fielder who walks across the pitch as the ball is being bowled! I?m sure you can understand this is most distracting. I have only seen it once, and unfortunately did not record the details of the field so I cannot provide more specific information.
- One quite rare (but rather annoying) bug ? occasionally when the ball reaches the boundary, the umpire will not signal four and instead the batsman can continue to run for around 30 seconds before the game moves on. I had thought this was limited to overthrows that went for four (this happened twice going for 6 and 7 runs ? though I think these amounts were correct as they had already run two and three respectively before the four overthrows) but later happened again after an edge to the boundary. On this occasion the CPU batsmen ran eight.
- Form does not seem remotely linked to performance ? and I certainly hope this is a bug. On my first tour match in the West Indies, Kasprowicz took 2/21 and 7/34 while Gilchrist hit 81 and 34*. Kasprowicz?s bowling form bar was very small ? almost nonexistent. This made me think for a moment that perhaps a short bar represented good form (it doesn?t seem to be covered in the manual) until I noticed Gilchrist?s batting form meter was almost full. Since both players performed well in these areas, their form should be similarly good. Instead, they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, which makes no sense whatsoever. This seems to happen quite regularly, so I can only assume that a short bar represents good form for a bowler while a long one equals good form for a batsman. This seems very odd to me, but is the only way this makes sense.
- Ricochets off the stumps at the bowler?s end from a batsman?s shot that go for boundaries are confused with overthrows. Hence, the batsman is credited with both the boundary and any runs made before it gets there.
- More of a suggestion than anything else, but it is rather difficult to pick sides when neither the pitch conditions or even the type of match in the case of a tour match (eg. 4-day, 3-day, one day?) is available before team selection. If possible, these would be very useful additions to the game in a patch.
- Excessive byes
- Incorrect scoreboards when game played in Autoplay mode (all 11 batsmen given out as dismissed - one with mode of dismissal but no bowler (eg. LBW ) and presumably one with "Run out" instead of "not out".
- Records from tour matches (ie. touring international side vs. local side) are incorrectly listed under Test (they are actually first class games). They also seem to get the opposition wrong ? eg a record I got for Australia vs. West Indies A was recorded as Australia vs. Australia.
- The Hall of Fame does not seem to record declared innings in the highest innings total.
- The selection bug, easily the worst of the game as it pretty much ****s up any gameplan you may have if you can't even select your own side.
- Quite ridiculous results on Autoplay - sides being bowled out in the 20s and so forth.
