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Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
New save, immediately got a GOAT tier regen. Suddenly our number four (Captain Rooteh!) didn't even get to bat
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
Only took him two days
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Test Cricket is Best Cricket
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
Holy moly I can't believe I saved this match
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
With the idiotic development that all retired players are now assigned "Very Defensive" status, it makes it much easier to play out the most boring Test matches of all time:
510 for 5 from 477 overs.
366 all out from 377.1 overs
459 all out from 449.3 overs
256 all out from 309.1 overs (this pitch was a proper minefield, ngl)
392 all out from 400 overs.
What a Test series. What a broken game. Oh, and the top performers from this series:
Herbert Sutcliffe - 398 runs @ 79.60 (SR: 18.5, 1 century, best 166)
Don Bradman - 394 runs @ 78.80 (SR: 12.9, 1 century, best 124)
Thijs van Schelven - 17 wickets @ 36.18 (econ: 0.90, 1 5WI, best 5/88)
Sachin Tendulkar - 11 wickets @ 29.18 (econ: 3.14, 1 5WI, best 6/112)
van Schelven bowled 4,104 balls in this series. Bradman faced 3055.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
510 for 5 from 477 overs.
366 all out from 377.1 overs
459 all out from 449.3 overs
256 all out from 309.1 overs (this pitch was a proper minefield, ngl)
392 all out from 400 overs.
What a Test series. What a broken game. Oh, and the top performers from this series:
Herbert Sutcliffe - 398 runs @ 79.60 (SR: 18.5, 1 century, best 166) Don Bradman - 394 runs @ 78.80 (SR: 12.9, 1 century, best 124) Thijs van Schelven - 17 wickets @ 36.18 (econ: 0.90, 1 5WI, best 5/88) Sachin Tendulkar - 11 wickets @ 29.18 (econ: 3.14, 1 5WI, best 6/112)van Schelven bowled 4,104 balls in this series. Bradman faced 3055.
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
My first ever Super Over on Cricket Captain. I guess it's all downhill from here
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
probably one of the best overs i have played
ahmedleo414
The Butcher
I can't believe I won
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
So I recently got my hands on the greatest of all Cricket Captain games - 2002, and chose to play a Leicestershire save (@Na Maloom Afraad this is the save I was telling you about). I have recently reached 2007, and have achieved a historic quadruple with one of my favourite squads that I've ever had on any Cricket Captain game.
My opening batters were Darren Maddy (real stats for comparison) and Iain Sutcliffe (real stats).
The specialist batters were Sachin Tendulkar (real stats), Matt Wood (real stats) and Mark Nicholson (regen player).
My dual-role players were all-rounder Matt Bulbeck (real stats) and 'keeper Tom New (real stats).
My opening bowlers were Chris Silverwood (real stats) and Jimmy Ormond (real stats).
My spin twins were Pete Scargill (regen player) and George Walker (real stats).
That was the team that played most of the season. I also had the following reserve players: Luke Wright, Ashley Wright, Mark Powell, Elliot Wilson (the game has him as a batter, which isn't very accurate), Dominic Clapp, Julian Austerfield (regen), Carl Crowe, Charlie Dagnall and Darren Stevens (listed in the game as a bowler, despite only having one first-class wicket up to the point when it starts).
Alas, this looks to be where my adventure with Leicestershire ends. A glitch with the final first-class match of the season being left with its final session of play incomplete (Glamorgan need 138 more runs to beat Worcestershire with only four wickets left, despite the fact that in game time it's now March) is stopping the game from progressing to the next season's contracts. Unless anyone knows of a way to fix something that's broken in a 20-year-old game, it looks like it's the end of this particular adventure.
This is absolutely the worst squad that I've ever managed to do amazing things with, and George Walker is absolutely the worst player I've ever turned into a club legend. I've done a little bit of fast and loose extrapolation here, but if he continued the pace set over the two most recent seasons of his career, and sustains them until retiring at the age of 38 (the age he is today), then his stats would end up as follows:
We will never know. But I like to imagine that he does exactly that. Probably plays a few times for England in the post-Swann years and earns his place alongside Ewart Astill, John Steele, Jack Walsh and Peter Scargill as one of the finest spinners ever to grace Grace Road.
What a squad. What a team.
My opening batters were Darren Maddy (real stats for comparison) and Iain Sutcliffe (real stats).
The specialist batters were Sachin Tendulkar (real stats), Matt Wood (real stats) and Mark Nicholson (regen player).
My dual-role players were all-rounder Matt Bulbeck (real stats) and 'keeper Tom New (real stats).
My opening bowlers were Chris Silverwood (real stats) and Jimmy Ormond (real stats).
My spin twins were Pete Scargill (regen player) and George Walker (real stats).
That was the team that played most of the season. I also had the following reserve players:
Luke Wright, Ashley Wright, Mark Powell, Elliot Wilson (the game has him as a batter, which isn't very accurate), Dominic Clapp, Julian Austerfield (regen), Carl Crowe, Charlie Dagnall and Darren Stevens (listed in the game as a bowler, despite only having one first-class wicket up to the point when it starts).Alas, this looks to be where my adventure with Leicestershire ends. A glitch with the final first-class match of the season being left with its final session of play incomplete (Glamorgan need 138 more runs to beat Worcestershire with only four wickets left, despite the fact that in game time it's now March) is stopping the game from progressing to the next season's contracts. Unless anyone knows of a way to fix something that's broken in a 20-year-old game, it looks like it's the end of this particular adventure.
This is absolutely the worst squad that I've ever managed to do amazing things with, and George Walker is absolutely the worst player I've ever turned into a club legend. I've done a little bit of fast and loose extrapolation here, but if he continued the pace set over the two most recent seasons of his career, and sustains them until retiring at the age of 38 (the age he is today), then his stats would end up as follows:
| Mat | Batting | Bowling | |
| First-Class | 334 | 3551 runs @ 11.13 (best 41) | 1174 wickets @ 30.82 (46 5WI, best 6/94) |
| List A | 564 | 1284 runs @ 7.87 (best 20) | 935 wickets @ 17.82 (10 5WI, best 5/21) |
We will never know. But I like to imagine that he does exactly that. Probably plays a few times for England in the post-Swann years and earns his place alongside Ewart Astill, John Steele, Jack Walsh and Peter Scargill as one of the finest spinners ever to grace Grace Road.
What a squad. What a team.
Aislabie
Test Cricket is Best Cricket
So I have another good save going - this happened as soon as the 2004 season. My squad
Opening Batters
Marcus Trescothick Mark Lathwell Piran Holloway- Holloway came in whenever Lathwell or Trescothick was unavailable
Middle-Order Batters
Vinod Kambli Aftab Habib Matt Wood Dominic Burley (R) Keith Parsons Harry Shuttleworth (R)- Kambli, Habib and Wood are my usual 3-4-5; the rest came in every now and again when one of them became unavailable for any reason
Wicket-Keepers
Carl Gazzard Stephen Adshead- Gazzard played every game this season; did really well
Seam Bowlers and All-Rounders
Matt Bulbeck Gavin Hamilton Adam Hollioake Richard Johnson Mike Cawdron Andy Caddick David Stack (R)- I usually played four of these seamers at any one time; they are listed in order of most to fewest appearances; Stack did not play at all.
Spin Bowlers and All-Rounders
Keith Dutch Ian Blackwell- Usually picked one of these two in my team at any given time.
Somerset is always a pretty easy starting point (strong squad and big budget) but this was still a very effective job to get them so strong so quickly.
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