Leg spinners

[deadduck]

Has anyone experimented with a leg spinner yet?

I've found that bowling around the wicket with a leg spinner and pitching the ball on leg at a full half-volley length causes the cpu to constantly edge the ball to silly mid off and silly point.

The same trick works with an off spinner but you have to pitch it on off stump instead.
Using this tactic I bowled a team out for 8 in the 1st innings and 0 in the 2nd innings on medium difficulty. I have not tried it on hard yet.

If anyone else has tried this please comment and if anyone has found any other bowling 'sweet spots' that get wickets a lot please post them.

 

[destroyersachin]

yea the spinners are good....the game is good.

 

[BadWog]

yeah i use the spinners to great effect like that too on medium difficulty but i only bowl 1 spinner at a time with a pace or medium bowler and i wont open with a spinner ill try do damage with McGrath and Gillespie first. i feel as if im almost cheating by bowling with spinners like that and getting teams out very cheaply lol. so i dont use them too often, i still do really well against the computer on medium simply by bowling line and length with pace bowlers...

 

[da_loser]

:bow: : Good work on getting them all out with no runs!!! :bow:

 

[Arrie]

If you guys really want a realistic and challenging gameplay.Go to Planet forums and download ai patch.It is really nice.It has tweaked the both 3 levels on the game and seam and swing has been improved drastically.Moreover, Cpu deals with spinners with more intelligency and accuracy.I am enjoying the game to large extent than before.

 

[jak_da_rippa]

I found a cool trick when bowling with medium bowlers. Here it is. Bowl on a dusty pitch (it may work on others but i just did it on that type)with medium bowlers of course and bowl inswinging bouncers with NO POWER. Having no power is vital to the success of this trick. You can pretty much judge how much it is going to swing by how far to the side the dot is on the ball. Anyway the batsman will play it on the back foot and he will get clean bowled. If you dont do it first time then try again and again and you will get a feel for it. I bowled a team out for 0 using this method. Good Luck!!

 

[ashwinkm]

I have version 5.0 of the patch and am playing with india against aus at adelaide(test) . So far I have only picked up one wicket with a spinner and that was an lbw of steve waugh when he tried to sweep sachin . Otherwise the cpu picks of the spinners quite well.Actually much better than me! And there is already a patch that fixes this , ie the cpu getting out lbw to sweep shots.