more follow up on the patch .. I scored 319 all out in 46 overs With laxman scoring a run a ball 60 with 9 fours. Unfortunately spinners are rather tough to tackle , so while lee , mcgrath and gillespie went for 7-8 runs per over, symonds took four wickets for 18 runs in his 10 overs and sparked a middle order collapse. A lot of the balls were cleverly bowled around the wicket topspinners to the left handers which got me lbw/bowled.
I still managed to get a lot of runs with the tail but obviously ended up with a lower score than expected. Stilll 318 was a good score and I had Australia down at 53/3.Then Damien Martyn and lehman put on an amazin 220 run partnership!!!
It is very very difficult to get wickets . Actually the two wickets that I did get were when the cpu tried to run the ball to third man and edged it to the keeper. Otherwise I got no edges at all on the hard pitch. I did tie them down in the middle with harbhajan and sachin and they were going along at 4.5 an over.They started accelerating around 37th over which may have been a little too late - but still if the total had been lower than 300 they would have won.They score 286/4 in 50 overs.
Aus had bowled nearly 45 extras , so the match would have been much closer if they had bowled tighter. Good work on the cpu batting though tutsi they are very very difficult to get out. Also , even with my 7 men on the offside they still managed to penetrate the field sometimes. Martyn would also charge the bowler but never got stumped. Everyone once in a while the batsmen would try to play an aerial shot if they had been tied down for a few overs.
Good work on the batting.. would like a few edges like your previous patches though..also too many wides- maybe on hard level they wont bowl as many wides. I know for a fact that on hard level with your prior patches they would NEVER bowl wides