I decided to do a England v Pakistan test match last night, just to see if it was see if it was any different to the India v Pakistan test match which was being played in Karachi.
I picked Pakistan, difficulty on hard, played at Lords. Won the toss and put England into bat the toss and decided to bat.
My opening spell from Asif and Ameer was testing for Cook and Strauss, they played slowly and took very few chances, after 10 overs England 33/0. I then took of Ameer and bought on Gul, in his first over Cook edges a outswinger to second slip. Next in Trott, he and Strauss settle down into a solid partnership, putting away the bad bowl and not taking any risks, after 21 overs England were 65/1. I decide to bring on Kaneria, immediately he starts to cause the batsmen problems, in his third over he gets Trott, who kicks one down leg side which is well taken by Akmal. Next in is Pietersen, he picks up the run but again in a controlled manner. Just before lunch Kaneria picks up his second wicket, Trott doesn't pick the flipper and is clean bowled through the gate (that was very satisfying). England are 120/3 at Lunch (30 Overs).
After lunch Pietersen and Collingwood start to build a partnership, they have taken the score to 178/3 after 55 overs, they are playing in a realistic and controlled manner, if there are bad bowls then they take advantage (particularly KP), if not they are happy to nudge the bowl around and pick up singles. Bowling is a challenge but enjoyable, I have had a few LBW shouts and dropped one catch.
This is very promising, I have not come across any game breaking bug yet, they definitely have sorted out the offline problems of the previous game, I am yet to test batting, I wanted to test the bowling and particularly the AI because that was broken in the AC09.
At work but will try and play some more later tonight.
