DBC 17 Batting

[cricket_online]

Here you go @cricket_online this is the low crouch whatever you call it shot? You can only play this "special" shot at point or behind.

And this other one you can only play in front of point. Actually for some reason this shot is harder to find than the other one, but when you do get it absolutely rockets to the fence haha!

And this is me batting on a soft pitch, you'll probably notice that I play at the very last ball when I should have left it!

Yeah the crouchy shot goes around the backward point area and the lean back & pokey shot goes in front of point area but I want to know how you can tell which shot will be played. Right now one of those is played out but you don't know which one or why, and that's what I want to understand.

 

[cricket_online]

im playing on amateur level, medium batting difficulty and im finding myself playing the pace bowlers alright (occasional knicks to keeper or slip) I can live with that all part of the game - but struggling to score vs the spinners - I have started trying to charge the spinners - would like some advice or guidelines as to when you think you should charge the spinners or how to score boundaries vs spinners - charging the spinner to a green length ball is either 6 or caught on the boundary lol

Against spinners the scoring zones are severely limited as you can't late cut the spinner thanks to the acrobatic pre-meditating wkt keeper and you can't drive down the ground to long off or long on area thanks to the spinner who stops everything. Thus I'm limited to just two shots against spinners - off drive to mid off/extra cover area and glance/flick to Square Leg region, and mostly get 1s and 2s against spinners unless the AI puts in weird attacking fields (generally after the fall of 6th or 7th wkt in shorter formats) where you have gaps on the leg side.

 

[Callytee]

Against spinners the scoring zones are severely limited as you can't late cut the spinner thanks to the acrobatic pre-meditating wkt keeper and you can't drive down the ground to long off or long on area thanks to the spinner who stops everything. Thus I'm limited to just two shots against spinners - off drive to mid off/extra cover area and glance/flick to Square Leg region, and mostly get 1s and 2s against spinners unless the AI puts in weird attacking fields (generally after the fall of 6th or 7th wkt in shorter formats) where you have gaps on the leg side.

Below is a 50 I just scored about an hour ago, all the runs behind square and all boundary's were off a spinner with just normal shots, no aggression buttons at all. I went on to hit 152 and late cut the spinner a lot. The keeper thing is annoying but it happens on badly timed shots, well struck/timed shots go along the ground the whole time for me.

 

[cricket_online]

Below is a 50 I just scored about an hour ago, all the runs behind square and all boundary's were off a spinner with just normal shots, no aggression buttons at all. I went on to hit 152 and late cut the spinner a lot. The keeper thing is annoying but it happens on badly timed shots, well struck/timed shots go along the ground the whole time for me.

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Your wagon wheel looks quite similar to what I get with a couple of minor exceptions... i) my late cut shots to Square Gully area are played off pacers and ii) I play a few more straight drives against the pacers. The dead zones are similar - through covers and cover point areas and anything behind backward square region on the leg side.

P.S. - What difficulty level are you on for batting? I generally play on Custom with batting difficulty sliders ranging anywhere from 60 to 70 for footwork, shot selection, timing etc.

 

[Bluebagger]

So batting against spinners is once again a struggle to score from?

 

[Callytee]

Your wagon wheel looks quite similar to what I get with a couple of minor exceptions... i) my late cut shots to Square Gully area are played off pacers and ii) I play a few more straight drives against the pacers. The dead zones are similar - through covers and cover point areas and anything behind backward square region on the leg side.

P.S. - What difficulty level are you on for batting? I generally play on Custom with batting difficulty sliders ranging anywhere from 60 to 70 for footwork, shot selection, timing etc.

I,m only playing on pro and normal,

I have a real issue hitting anything to fine leg and that dead zone between point and covers, I agree lots needs to be worked on. Spinners are weird it took me ages in 14 to work them out, only thing I can prob offer is the timing to hit them hard is always a lot later than you would think. Once you get it you can actually smack them really hard on normal shots.

 

[bradleyc]

I'm really struggling with batting in this game, i tried on easiest for a while then switched to custom, though in neither can i seem to get going when it comes to batting. Not sure it is helped that the fielders seem to be supermen for some reason? 9 out of 10 they take catches out of nowhere and very rarely seem to drop them. Yeah so i'm not quite sure what to do with batting, any suggestions, perhaps i really should read more of this thread.

 

[LittleBigPlanet]

Yeah the crouchy shot goes around the backward point area and the lean back & pokey shot goes in front of point area but I want to know how you can tell which shot will be played. Right now one of those is played out but you don't know which one or why, and that's what I want to understand.

Ok, so from what I can work out the dab shot in front of point happens when you press the right stick in front of point towards cover point from a GREEN length delivery, but it doesn't seem to work quite the same to YELLOW or DARK BLUE deliveries, if at all. (*Might only be from green length deliveries*)

The get down low and boogy shot happens from pressing the right stick towards point and behind from YELLOW, GREEN, and DARK BLUE deliveries. There also seems to be a bit of a hybrid shot, like the get down and boogy shot! And it appears to be the same, but the batsmans weight is more on the backfoot (leaning back), maybe it only happens from shorter deliveries like GREEN or BACK OF A LENGTH YELLOW, or maybe its when you play it in the same direction but from the backfoot?!

Whoa!!! this was a lot harder to explain then I thought it would be lol.

 

[Alberts]

So batting against spinners is once again a struggle to score from?

The hardest thing with the spinners seems to be that it's near impossible to play straight to them as they still field it as they did in the last version. Beyond that it's about getting the timing right. Once you get used to it you can hit a few boundaries, particularly off bad balls.

 

[Redfive]

The hardest thing with the spinners seems to be that it's near impossible to play straight to them as they still field it as they did in the last version. Beyond that it's about getting the timing right. Once you get used to it you can hit a few boundaries, particularly off bad balls.

Agreed, and I've found in particular the sweep shot much easier to time than in '14. With no deep fielders square on the on side the slog sweep has also become a reasonable boundary scoring shot against spinners.

I'm only scoring in the V against spin by charging and hitting in the air over the bowler's head. That's a shot with plenty of risk, but as it should be...

 

[subtekjr]

The hardest thing with the spinners seems to be that it's near impossible to play straight to them as they still field it as they did in the last version. Beyond that it's about getting the timing right. Once you get used to it you can hit a few boundaries, particularly off bad balls.

If you really want you can definitely persist with hitting them down the ground, on the ground. Best way to prove it is to advance to every ball, hitting straight down the ground. Most of the time they will stop it, but you can get a steady 6-8 runs an over from them if you hit it well with ground modifiers.

Change to a lofted modifier for anything Yorker length, they are easy shots, Full balls are hit and miss, but you can definitely tonk them all the way given good timing.

 

[disco123]

Agreed, and I've found in particular the sweep shot much easier to time than in '14. With no deep fielders square on the on side the slog sweep has also become a reasonable boundary scoring shot against spinners.

I'm only scoring in the V against spin by charging and hitting in the air over the bowler's head. That's a shot with plenty of risk, but as it should be...

I'm baffled how to play the sweep , how do you do it as down with left stick is now leg glance from my experience?

 

[Jerm]

hold L1 front foot, right stick left or right (reverse sweep)

 

[disco123]

hold L1 front foot, right stick left or right (reverse sweep)

Thanks , if it was clock face and bowler is 12 o'clock ?[DOUBLEPOST=1484078709][/DOUBLEPOST]

Thanks , if it was clock face and bowler is 12 o'clock ?

Right to goes to 6 o'clock ?

 

[Jerm]

for traditional sweep right stick between 7 and 9 o'clock and for reverse sweep right stick between 3 and 5 o'clock

L1 + front foot + right stick 12 o'clock (forward) would play a helicopter shot
L1 + back foot + right stick 6 o'clock (backwards) would play dill scoop over keeper (try this in nets first!)