It's easy enough to make-out fielders using the first-person view option in a short-format game, but it is incredibly difficuilt in a Test-Match because of the white kits and usually white-stadium backgrounds... I don't think view-field thing is all that much of an issue, really... in a real game of cricket half the point of being a really good batsman is finding that gap and exploiting it until the captain changes the field, creating another one.
I've just being applying the same principals in career mode for the last hour. No-one at mid off, punching twos and fours down the ground for a few overs and the AI plugged the gap, leaving a fairly sizable gap at square leg... started playing off my hips, AI changes the field and gets me out because I didn't notice it. Gone for 19 off about 50 deliveries!
fishing brilliant if you ask me.