Yeah batting is tedious and I don't get it. I also played AUSvWI and I barely got any boundaries through offside in the 40 overs I batted but the on the other hand I loaded up a game with me as SRLvWI and I was hitting boundaries all over the place however my batsmen was about 4ft away from leg stump (I wanted the CPU to bowl me to see spring stumps in action).
So I'm not sure if the ball has to be really far from you to get it through the gap or what because I hit three 4s in a row at one point and if that is the case it shouldn't be because not all 4s come from a wide delivery irl
EDIT: Another issue I've come across with wastes pak team, I had Ali bowling and he has Starc action, I made him bowl close to stumps and nearly every ball he would knock the bails at non striker off whilst going through the action... I mentioned it happening with wastes pak team because I've used Mark Wood who also has Starc action to bowl that close to stumps and it didn't happen once, so not sure if this is a bug for academy creations only