Has anyone tried both an Aussie and English career batting? It is just totally different.
Batting at 4 for both I faced 80% short balls in Australia (after 5 matches) compared to about 20% in England.
You have to play totally different way. My dismissals were pretty much all missing the yorker.
Wonder if this is from the players being given different stats during creation.. did you download manually all from the same creator or just get best?
career mode just got really hard now because the difficulty has increase..its not fun anymore.
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Is this because you've reached international level, or did you up the difficulty? Are you loosing your wickets from being bowled/LBW'd or being caught? They key really is to find the biggest gap you can in the field that you can confidently play a shot to, and basically premediate to hit it there.
I'm all for watching the ball (thats how its supposed to be done
As above, I'm still premeditating it on anything that is not spin.. any spinners I basically play very straight or block.. otherwise I might as well just give up right away. Against quicks, I try and time as late as comfortable (so I don't early it to a slower ball), also helps to keep the shot on the ground.
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Re-started a new career with a batsman, using what I thought was on disc teams. I was trying to find a way to easily update all the players names and looks to the get best or other download options, but there is no way, as far as I can tell, to download the players en-mass without bringing their stats with them. As a result, I had downloaded Blocker Dave's Aus team, but copied it without overiding the on disk team.. or so I thought.
Found it weird when in the first game against the Vics I noticed a James Faulkner in the team.. though 'isn't that the guy's real name??'. Next minute, the top order is collapsing around me, all being bowled by some demonic swing from the real named Siddle and Harris was putting full quick ones down and hitting stumps.. I did manage a really comfortable 78 off 86 before my attempted wide on drive turned into a square hook to a short delivery which I nicked to the wicket keeper.
Got out of the match and sure enough, even though some of the players names on the Vic team matched the on disk names, all the players from Blocker's Australia team had transplanted themselves in there as well. Checked between the stats from his team and the on disk team (as per one of my many wild theories) and even though there is some minor differences, they are very similar. I think I'll restart career again this time ensuring I'm using on disk teams and see how the same match goes.