Love coming in at 5 in one day games and t20 needing something 70 off 35 great fun! haha Loving it tho.. My averages are lower 2nd season than 1st. Need to pull it together ! Trying too hard and i'm doing worse... getting out to my go to shots now so im scared to play any shot! lol
I also almost made my maiden limited overs 50.
Got to 48 and given out lbw as I totally missed the ball. Reviewed it on the off chance and hawkeye showed the ball just missing off. Overturned!
Got to 49. Loads of short balls. Skied one to mid off.
An interesting observation on career mode if you play as a specialist batsman... your team's chances are inversely proportional to your performance, i.e. if you do well as a batsman the more likely is your team to lose, or not win. This is a direct correlation of AI batsmen not doing too well when they "bat" in the game as opposed to when they are simulated.
As an example, I play as a no. 3 batsman and my three top scores in various formats and the team results are as follows...
FC - HS of 107 and result a draw. Thankfully we led by more than 150 after the 1st innings else we could have lost the game.
List A - HS of 71 and result a loss.
T20 - HS of 88* (54 balls) and result a loss and I ended up being MOTM.
The problem I've seen is that the more you bat, the more your peers have to bat along with you and they keep on getting out, or play like dolts in shorter formats. Nearly every time I get a decent score there's a sort of collapse and I see my batting partners trudge back to the pavilion. In shorter formats, your batting partner hogs the strike and plays out dots. E.g., in th T20 where I scored unbeaten 88 the run rate for the most part was more than 10 but as wkts started falling (which happens), my batting partners started playing dots and I was stuck at non-striker's end for a long time resulting in us getting a score of 170 odd when 200+ was on the cards.
Conversely, when I fail I silulate to career player so rest of the innings is simulated and lo and behold! The other batsmen suddenly start scoring for fun. You suddenly see Shaun Marsh churn out 150+ for Western Warriors or Khwaja thwack a 50 ball 90 for Sydney Thunders. But when you are batting alongside they do none of that
I'm hoping the improved AI batting, once it's patched in, will result in AI batting better alongside you and your significant contributions will actually help in your team winning. Thankfully I've Geoff Boycott's attitude towards batting and team be damned as long as I can increase my batting average, which is very un-Boycottesque at the moment
@BigAntStudios, do look into making AI batting solid as it does have an impact on career mode as well. Earlier I thought that wouldn't be the case but unfortunately my experience has proven otherwise
An interesting observation on career mode if you play as a specialist batsman... your team's chances are inversely proportional to your performance, i.e. if you do well as a batsman the more likely is your team to lose, or not win. This is a direct correlation of AI batsmen not doing too well when they "bat" in the game as opposed to when they are simulated.
As an example, I play as a no. 3 batsman and my three top scores in various formats and the team results are as follows...
FC - HS of 107 and result a draw. Thankfully we led by more than 150 after the 1st innings else we could have lost the game.
List A - HS of 71 and result a loss.
T20 - HS of 88* (54 balls) and result a loss and I ended up being MOTM.
The problem I've seen is that the more you bat, the more your peers have to bat along with you and they keep on getting out, or play like dolts in shorter formats. Nearly every time I get a decent score there's a sort of collapse and I see my batting partners trudge back to the pavilion. In shorter formats, your batting partner hogs the strike and plays out dots. E.g., in th T20 where I scored unbeaten 88 the run rate for the most part was more than 10 but as wkts started falling (which happens), my batting partners started playing dots and I was stuck at non-striker's end for a long time resulting in us getting a score of 170 odd when 200+ was on the cards.
Conversely, when I fail I silulate to career player so rest of the innings is simulated and lo and behold! The other batsmen suddenly start scoring for fun. You suddenly see Shaun Marsh churn out 150+ for Western Warriors or Khwaja thwack a 50 ball 90 for Sydney Thunders. But when you are batting alongside they do none of that
I'm hoping the improved AI batting, once it's patched in, will result in AI batting better alongside you and your significant contributions will actually help in your team winning. Thankfully I've Geoff Boycott's attitude towards batting and team be damned as long as I can increase my batting average, which is very un-Boycottesque at the moment
@BigAntStudios, do look into making AI batting solid as it does have an impact on career mode as well. Earlier I thought that wouldn't be the case but unfortunately my experience has proven otherwise
Completely agree, I got 3 50s & 1 100 until now and there is no way I am forgetting them because I felt so tensed while getting those runs. I screamed when I got out on 77 & 64 runs twice.
None of the other games has made me to feel like this one. I am yet to play my first tour match or first online game outside career mode, completely obsessed with my career mode.
