danielcloete
School Cricketer
Hi Boss. Don?t get me wrong. I really like your patch, and for me it is by far the best one around. EA should employ you to fine tune their next cricket game before they release it, because they certainly don?t. I do though have a few problems with and queries about how your patch plays. So here goes.
I already gave my opinion a few times about (or the lack off) the front foot defensive shot, and that is that it is very annoying, and make me uncompetitive (test match, hard) by too many dismissals either being given LBW or being caught on square leg. Just as an example; in one game against Australia, they for some or other reason didn?t once have a fielder at square leg, and because of that I scored a nice score of 473 with two of my batsmen scoring 100?s. For any other game, with a fielder on square leg I usually average around 120 per innings, with almost never having a batsman score a fifty.
I also find with playing back foot shots on the offside (as well as the front foot drive towards point), that more often than not the batsman is being caught, and that is because the ball is always played in the air.
My final problem is again with the square leg fielder, and this time it is when I play a normal pull shot to a short pitch delivery. More often than not the square leg fielder catches it as the ball is also always played in the air.
For that reason, I very seldom attempt any back foot shots, even if I get a juicy short ball too cut or pull. Perhaps my timing is out on these shots or my batsman?s confidence needs to be up before I attempt it? It might also just be that the hard level is too difficult for how I think it should play.
I really hope I am not annoying you with al my moaning. My only wish is to have the game as close as possible to being an accurate simulation to real life cricket.
Thanks
I already gave my opinion a few times about (or the lack off) the front foot defensive shot, and that is that it is very annoying, and make me uncompetitive (test match, hard) by too many dismissals either being given LBW or being caught on square leg. Just as an example; in one game against Australia, they for some or other reason didn?t once have a fielder at square leg, and because of that I scored a nice score of 473 with two of my batsmen scoring 100?s. For any other game, with a fielder on square leg I usually average around 120 per innings, with almost never having a batsman score a fifty.
I also find with playing back foot shots on the offside (as well as the front foot drive towards point), that more often than not the batsman is being caught, and that is because the ball is always played in the air.
My final problem is again with the square leg fielder, and this time it is when I play a normal pull shot to a short pitch delivery. More often than not the square leg fielder catches it as the ball is also always played in the air.
For that reason, I very seldom attempt any back foot shots, even if I get a juicy short ball too cut or pull. Perhaps my timing is out on these shots or my batsman?s confidence needs to be up before I attempt it? It might also just be that the hard level is too difficult for how I think it should play.
I really hope I am not annoying you with al my moaning. My only wish is to have the game as close as possible to being an accurate simulation to real life cricket.
Thanks