The wide tactic is devastatingly lame and boring, I beat fazzy with it once in what would have been a great game, he was chasing 136 and would have got there. To be honest I didn't even come up with the tactic intentionally, I was just bowling with varied line and length and he was crushing boundaries no matter where my field was, finally I bowled a couple of balls way outside off and realized there was no shot that could get them away. There are no boundaries to be hit if you do this, the only effective shots that could pierce such a field or go for 6 require the ball to be pitched far short of a length.
Another unrealistic but effective tactic is bowling long hops with spinners while packing the straight boundary with fielders. The lofted cut or pull that one would like to use against this for an easy boundary doesn't work, because the ball doesn't bounce high enough, even though you can hit a regular pull shot. And in this game you usually have to hit the ball in the air or a sweep to get a boundary, since fielders that are 5m from the batsman are more effective than fielders on the ring at cutting off the shots, making miraculous diving stops of balls hit like lasers and then firing in the direct hit every single time.
And then there is another pretty lame tactic that I use of packing the on side and bowling almost wide/wide down leg. This one can be hard to use though, it's easy to bowl wides.
Actually there is a shot that can hit the balls that are a little offside...
And theres also shots that can hit long hops from spinners for fours...
And the tactic bowling down leg is easy to deal with as well...
Again play me and i will be able to put the runs on the board.
All these tactics are manageable you just have to find the right tactic for the right player, Also please note
-If a player wants to set a field to stop boundaries, it will be very hard or impossible to hit boundaries if he bowls to his plan, however you can still take singles unless you dont know some of the important shots
-If a player wants to set a field to stop singles, it will be very hard or impossible to take singles, however you can still hit 4's if your willing to go over the top.
-Just because someone is blocking a certain area near the boundary doesnt mean you cant hit it to the left or right of him.
-You didn't unintentionally find a tactic that cannot have runs scored against it, you just found a tactic that fazzy cant score runs against, and seeing how fazzy is one of the best players out, its pretty obvious a lot of players are not going to be able to score runs against the tactic either. Its what separates the best players from the good.
The good players will just call it a cheap and lame tactic or just ignore it and continue
The best players will learn the shots to counter the tactic.
Clearly the tactic is not illegal so you can either just not play with anyone who will use it against you knowing you don't know how to counter it, or you can learn how to score against it, Your choice.