There are a few wrong assumptions you are making...
1. You are assuming you can pick up a sports based video game and be expert in it just because you know the sport. It's not true at all. If Neymar or Messi play FIFA for the first time, I can assure you they will get their @$$es handed to them by a kid online who probably never played a game of footie in his life. Same will be true for Madden, MLB The Show etc.
2. You are assuming DBC 14 wouldn't have a steep learning curve. I have played nearly all prior cricket video games released on consoles, and have been a cricket fan all my life and yet it took me quite a while to get used to the game and it's controls. Yet I'm sure I will be well beaten if and when I venture online for my first few games. It will take you plenty of hours to get used to the game and generally online is for hardcore gamers where you are bound to come across against better players.
3. Another incorrect assumption on your part is that sports based video game is very similar to the actual game, which is never true for any sport. In FIFA folks sprint all over throughout and press all the time which would get the team to burn out by half time in real life but it pays off in the video game. In Madden people pass 90% of the time and barely run the ball. Similar strategy would result in the team throwing bunch of picks and be taken apart but it doesn't work that way in the video game. Similar concept works in cricket. In real life McGrathesque line & length would be unhittable but in a video game there's nothing worse than being predictable. You have to mix line, length, pace and throw bunch of slower balls else you will get killed. Unfortunately that's how online works and you can't expect a video game to be a life-like simulation of the real sport.
