I seem to find it isn't always the case.
I have put up quite a few good partnerships with the ai. Opening with Lyth for Yorkshire we put on a 216 opening stand before I holed out in the deep. He went on to make 150 if I remember correctly.
For Western Australia Voges and I bat quite well together more often than not. I really think it comes down to the match situation
I switched all assists off from day 1 for both bowling and batting..And use close batting and bowling cam which I find the best to watch the ball...Talking about the batting ingame, anyone finding it easier or better to turn off all the aids for batting? noticed an improvement of my scores from 3/4 runs an innings to 20 - 30 as a number 5 batsman. Not sure if this is because it's taking the premiditation out of the selection, I.e knowing it's a short ball i'll play off the back foot or if it's a good length i'll play front foot. noticed I'm now watching the ball and blocking and trying to build my innings slowly.
I switched all assists off from day 1 for both bowling and batting..And use close batting and bowling cam which I find the best to watch the ball...
I've had the bowling assist off, still getting the occassional no balls but getting the hang of it. Decided with batting to try it as I were getting caught cheaply knowing where the ball was going and trying to slog, now I'm blocking more and getting a feel for batting, staying at the crease longer and improving my technique.
Finally I made my first half century in career mode . It was an awesome feeling after a week of struggle with ducks and ones & twos. I got out yesterday for a duck against a spinner . So I decided not to go to the career mode until I play with ease against spinners. I hit the nets for nearly half an hour and played a casual game in pro mode. Even then it was not helping for me. I gave away consecutive three wickets against a finger spinner (six wickets within three overs). I started to play the spinner very late and found myself getting consecutive single & doubles and boundaries occasionally. This was little bit helping. Trust me guys, playing a casual game in pro mode or veteran is way too helpful than practicing in the nets against the bowling machine or match practice. And I went back to the career today and made up my mind not to play any ball very early. I premeditated all the shorts for the quickies with front foot and leg side. Then came my life time enemy with his spin bowling. I played every ball really really late and it worked out for me. I started rotating strikes and boundaries came unexpectedly. Finally I made my first half century (54 of 77 balls). The AI fielder used his own trick to catch me at extra cover where he ran for solid 20 meters from deep mid off and dived like a long jump athlete for nearly five meters (it was annoying anyway) . Anyhow I felt very happy when I scored my first fifty. I literally screamed in my room when I played the cover drive and it went to the boundary when I was at 49 of 74 balls . This has boosted up my confidence and I scored 36 (n.o) of 39 balls in the next match and I played the winning shot . Still I have a long way to go. Thank you so much for all the people who have given a lot of tips in here
The problem I'm facing as a pure batsman is that no matter what I do, or what shots I play, the skills only seem to improve for 'front foot' and 'on side' skills. Could it be due to the fact I chose 'front foot' as my strength when I created my career player? But it does seem odd that two consecutive back foot shots through the off side should result in 'on side' or 'front foot' skill increase.
After getting to a certain point on my inswing skill, and my ability to constantly get almost perfect line and length, I'm starting to see some silly AI batting. My previous best in FC was 10/74 (6/35 for an inning) and in OD I had never even gotten more than 3 wickets. I had a total of 8 wickets in Pro40 in 7 matches at an average of 25.
Then in my last OD match, I finally had my "AI being incredibly stupid" moment. We batted in an OD match first against Essex and put up 250 including my 21(8) in the last two overs. They start off chasing aggressively but eventually Chris Jordan and I tie them down and even pick off one of the openers. They're 105/1 in 22 overs when I come back for my second spell.
First over: W2W0WW
Second over : 000WW1
I forget how the other overs went but they were bowled for 112. Which means they lost 9 wickets for 7 runs after being 105/1 at one point. Epic, epic collapse. I ended up with figures of 9/17. Almost all of my wickets were bowled or LBW, with 2 or 3 caught, and the set batsmen were both bowled while missing the line by a mile.
My next FC match was crazy as well. In two innings I went 9/40, all in a total of 13 overs.
Is it possible to change the career mode difficulty or do I choose that only at the beginning?
this game has given me new found sympathy for ashraful.
what if he's just doing the best he can, guys? we can all relate to that now, surely?