karolkarol
International Cricketer
Just some initial thoughts, only after 35 minutes of playing the new patch:
One thing I noticed straight away is that in career mode, bowling speeds are more realistic. Example: my batting allrounder, a fast-medium pacer would bowl from 148-156km/h consistently, this patch its more 135-142 (sometimes 144). Fielding seems solid, nothing sus going on (only played 35 minutes so not a large sample) but things looking solid.
AI played my bowling pretty well too, didn't see any mandatory must hit big shot per over, not as many random edges/ general tom-foolery ball 4-6. Had a blast to be honest, felt like the 24/2 patch - for me anyway. Haven't seen much diving in general, like point diving for the ball but like I said it's only a 35 minute session. (This was in career mode, can't speak for other modes. This was also using my own custom sliders in a four day FC match, can't speak for default sliders).
I've played around an hour of the new patch, batting in a tour match and they've definitely ironed out some of the AI stuff that the previous patch introduced. All in all the AI seem to be considerably tighter in the field, I've only seen one dive where the fielder missed the ball and that was a realistic one which looked great. I've not seen anything particularly out of place yet at all, looks promising!