I had a rather thrilling finish to my match !India were bowled out for 166. They still dont score fast enough and it wasnt till the 45th over that they started trying to loft over the infield forcing me to put more fielders outside the circle. They had 6 wickets in hand and both batsman at full confidence but still ended up playing the same shots to the fielder. I still feel that the cpu's shots need to be tweaked , as well as their pacing- maybe increase the power of the front foot cover drive so it goes over the infield or for a 6..
Coming to batting- this time I decided to continue with the 7.5 beta with the new technique and it was really tough.. Got of to a good start though and was actually at 4.5 runs perover .Once Kumble and KArtik came in though I struggled .. it was very very hard against the spinners and kumbles figures were 10-4-13-2 and karthik 10-3-14-3 .I started panicking as the reqd run rate went up and had a few runs outs as well. from 65/2 I collapsed to 105/9 with my run rate around 2.8. Then the cpu made its biggest error in judgement .. they spread out the field and had two partimers yuvraj and ganguly bowling the last 10 overs... gillespie and mcgrath scored tons of singles and I was 156/9 of 48 overs with victory in my sights till ganguly had me lbw with that yorker(the one thats tough to face with the new technique) and aus lost by 8 runs !It was interesting that the spinners were so hard to face for me as well as the CPU(the cpu struggled against clarke and symonds)
Batting is great as I had mentioned earlier , but the cpu batting still needs work
Coming to batting- this time I decided to continue with the 7.5 beta with the new technique and it was really tough.. Got of to a good start though and was actually at 4.5 runs perover .Once Kumble and KArtik came in though I struggled .. it was very very hard against the spinners and kumbles figures were 10-4-13-2 and karthik 10-3-14-3 .I started panicking as the reqd run rate went up and had a few runs outs as well. from 65/2 I collapsed to 105/9 with my run rate around 2.8. Then the cpu made its biggest error in judgement .. they spread out the field and had two partimers yuvraj and ganguly bowling the last 10 overs... gillespie and mcgrath scored tons of singles and I was 156/9 of 48 overs with victory in my sights till ganguly had me lbw with that yorker(the one thats tough to face with the new technique) and aus lost by 8 runs !It was interesting that the spinners were so hard to face for me as well as the CPU(the cpu struggled against clarke and symonds)
Batting is great as I had mentioned earlier , but the cpu batting still needs work