Problem: Spinners opening the bowling :-(

[StormySteve]

I believe this was mentioned sometime ago but would probably take me an age to refer back to it so excuse me if I've double posted an issue.

I'm getting spinners opening the bowling for AI in ODI's an T20 matches which is highly annoying, is there any way of getting around that issue or is there a specific batting position they should be in, really spoils this awesome game. Only time I can recall a spinner opening was Dipak Patel (NZ) back in the 1991 WC.

Any help advice much appreciated - thanks in advance

 

[Zhish]

I believe this was mentioned sometime ago but would probably take me an age to refer back to it so excuse me if I've double posted an issue.

I'm getting spinners opening the bowling for AI in ODI's an T20 matches which is highly annoying, is there any way of getting around that issue or is there a specific batting position they should be in, really spoils this awesome game. Only time I can recall a spinner opening was Dipak Patel (NZ) back in the 1991 WC.

Any help advice much appreciated - thanks in advance

Despite the fact that spinners are used infrequently to open the bowling in limited overs matches, this is an irritating aspect of DBC. The most highly rated bowlers in the team seem to chosen automatically to open the bowling. Perhaps Big Ant could include an option to nominate 1st and 2nd bowlers for each team as they do for captain and keeper. When you are bowling, however, you still have the option of changing the bowler before the over starts.

 

[StormySteve]

Yes I agree the ability to nominate 1st and 2nd bowlers would be useful - thanks

 

[cooks1st100]

I think there may be a way around this issue but it depends whether you can be bothered to spend the time to do it.

I had an issue with the AI struggling to score off the spinners so I reduced their attributes significantly apart from turn for their stock delivery in an attempt to improve on this. Drift for example would be set no higher than 3/4 increments due to the drift being far too extreme imo. I'm fairly sure it stopped the spinners from opening due to the seamers having a higher rating.

 

[StormySteve]

Will give that a try Bobby, thanks very much for that

 

[grkrama]

The most highly rated bowlers in the team seem to chosen automatically to open the bowling.

nope ravi bopara and root open the bowling at times for eng, the one thing is this mostly occurs when you are chasing in limited overs!

 

[StormySteve]

Only way around this assuming you can access controls to both sides is to change the opposition bowler start his run up then save/exit and then load and return to batting, horrible way of having to do this but for me it's better than having Root & Bopara opening the bowling for example, this situation takes me back to the awful days of playing (or trying to) Graham Gooch World Class Cricket on the Amiga

 

[cooks1st100]

nope ravi bopara and root open the bowling at times for eng, the one thing is this mostly occurs when you are chasing in limited overs!

What I suggested may not work then. I rarely played one-day games.

Only way around this assuming you can access controls to both sides is to change the opposition bowler start his run up then save/exit and then load and return to batting, horrible way of having to do this but for me it's better than having Root & Bopara opening the bowling for example, this situation takes me back to the awful days of playing (or trying to) Graham Gooch World Class Cricket on the Amiga

You can do this if you play the series mode I think, but you will have to bowl one ball. Certainly not ideal but it's a work-around I guess.

 

[StormySteve]

What I did was to let the bowler run up and not touch the controls ie: dead ball, then after save/load bowler bowls the full 6

 

[blockerdave]

This was a genuine and annoying bug post patch 2 where in every format you had spinners open after the first innings of the match.

Thought it had been fixed by patch 2.5

We must be allowed to set opening bowlers per line up in the next game.

 

[StormySteve]

Ah yes Dave, I remember it was you that mentioned that bug before complete with female and adams apple gag sadly the bug exists, but agreed it does need something like that in the next game... would be nice in this one too