Don Bradman Cricket Academy V 1.00 Beta is available (Updated 28/03)

[The_Pharoah]

It disgusts me that Broad did not walk and I think he is a cheat, however I don't think the Australians are in any position to give him grief because this ashes tour was one of the mos unsportsmanlike I've ever seen and I know not a single one of them would walk if they thought they could get away with it.

bah...easy to say from your couch. Whenever I played cricket and was given not out even though I knew I nicked it...I'd stay and play. Why? its the rules - if there is an appeal and I'm given out...I won't complain (I've been given out when I didn't nick the ball as well) but if they get it wrong, so be it. Umpires are human and make mistakes (I used to umpire as well). I believe it all evens itself out in the end.

 

[ethybubs]

easy to say from your couch.

I put it into practice whenever the circumstances arise. And for the record, it's not a couch, it's a desk chair.

 

[BowledThirdBall]

So before everyone changed his question - can you accidentally walk??

 

[blockerdave]

So before everyone changed his question - can you accidentally walk??

Highly doubt it. I imagine the button is only operable if you have edged it.

 

[BigAntStudios]

You can accidentally walk, I haven't seen it for quite a while... indeed I haven't seen it since we changed it to another button on Mike as a joke.... so funny he was swearing at the screen wondering why he was going out every other ball

 

[Ajh1977]

Thanks Ross I was wondering if you could accidentally do that. So does that mean with running between wickets the further you hold the trigger the faster they run?

 

[BigAntStudios]

Thanks Ross I was wondering if you could accidentally do that. So does that mean with running between wickets the further you hold the trigger the faster they run?

I believe there's a sprint button.

 

[Ajh1977]

Ahh I see, one final question about running between wickets, how easy is it to judge singles/twos etc, I can't remember seeing a pitch map, and watching the gameplay videos if you hit the ball a long way its difficult to know if its goin all the way, can the camera zoom to a kind of broadcast cam after you hit the ball while in behind batsman cam, I know its probably not the case in pro cam. I think in previous games judging the running had always been easy but the pitch map/runners box thing was probably the only good point about them!!

 

[BigAntStudios]

You'll be able to judge as reasonable as you could in the real game.

 

[Ajh1977]

Ok cheers, its hard trying to gauge much from an iPod screen!!itll be much easier on Xbox!!

 

[TripleM]

I believe there's a sprint button.

I know that isn't new information, but it just occurred to me - is this the first cricket game ever to do that? Adds yet another important element to gameplay, it's fantastic.

 

[MattW]

It's not just a sprint button, it's on the analogue trigger, which means you can basically pick how fast you run between wickets.

In the career mode video with Mikey, I was basically sprinting on every run in the one day match, and within the space of a few overs I'd hit the wall on fatigue - I think you can see me running noticeably slower at the end of my innings.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

It's not just a sprint button, it's on the analogue trigger

I never knew this. I thought you just pressed square (PS3) to run, double tap it to run faster etc...

 

[MattW]

It's on R2 IIRC.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

I'll take your word for it seeing as you have played the game but looking at the controls there is no given indication about control of running speed.