I think for Cricket 23 they must include the feel of certain type of players for batting with new animations for ELEGANT STROKE MAKER (like Kohli , Babar , Williamson) who look so pleasing to the eyes and never looks like they will get out and they play elegant and stylish strokes with authority we should have a batting style resembling such type of players , NUDGER , A batter who use the pace of the ball to find gaps and doesn't look elegant at all while batting but he is mighty effective (M.Rizwan , Dwayne Bravo etc) MUSCLE PLAYER A batter who uses muscles and tries to hit the ball very hard whenever he plays , sometimes looks ugly while batting (Gayle , Afridi , Suryakumar) TAILENDER A Batter who even when he times the ball to the boundary looks downright ugly and there should be more types of ugly shots in this animation pack reflecting that the batter barely managing to put bat on the ball and really scared in playing the shots against pacers or a big turning spinner and having ugly looking defensive technique. MODERN BATTER, A cross breed between NUDGER and ELEGANT STROKE MAKER like most modern players of today , UNORTHODOX BATTER A unique kind of batting style with unorthodox shots like upper cut , dilscoop , helicopter , switch hit or a tennis shot to shot pitch delivery
Moreover these 6 batting style doesn't need to be rigid and users should have the flexibility to mix and match shot animations from each those 6 batting style creating truly unique players
For eg we can have a style cover drive from ELEGANT STROKE MAKER , brutal hoick over mid wicket from MUSCLE PLAYER and ugly looking backfoot late cut from TAILENDER batting style reflecting that this player is weak against quick short delivery. Morever the selection of shot animations from these style should also be dependent on attributes assigned for eg cover drive from elegant stroke maker can only be selected if you have ratings on offside and front foot ratings in the 85-99 range plus one day or test master batting perk for MUSCLE style cover drive these ratings should be in the 70-99 range plus must have atleast one power hitter perk for offside play for MODERN BATTER cover drive these ratings must be 55-99 or for an UNORTHODOX cover drive these ratings must be in the 45-99 for NUDGER it must be in the 35-99 and anything below 35 you can only select TAILENDER cover drive , This way we can truly create unique batters with specific weakness and strength and style according to their shot animations.
and the locking of shot animation based on ratings is only for lower skills and not for high skill, if you have ratings in the 90s and you want to pick a shot from TAILENDER STYLE you can still do so reflecting players like M.Rizwan who looks very ugly in playing some shots but still the No1. T20 batter in the world.
It will truly be an amazing experience in career mode where you can really improve your batsmen from ugly looking duck to Virat Kohli level flair and style.
In a similar way the bowling actions animation speed can be based on how quick the bowler is bowling for 120ks bowler the antimation speed should be lower and for 150k+ bowlers it should be high and more over the bowling action runup speed and intensity should also be based on your pace , it will make career mode more engaging and realistic , like you start of as a 110k bowler who jogs in and bowl some harmless pie with slowed bowling animation and after 10 years you are steaming in and bowling 150ks+ thunderbolts.
