Cricket 2007

[Marshall_magic]

yeah, shame I couldn't go on with it, I think he ended up with about 62 off 15, in the 5 overs I got about 3/120

 

[Seagullsrock]

yeah, shame I couldn't go on with it, I think he ended up with about 62 off 15, in the 5 overs I got about 3/120

I know its a different game but I got 203 off 79 with Matty hayden on Cricket 2002. Pretty damn easy to his sixes. I got 37 off the 1st over with 6 sixes and a wide. Ended up with 352 off 20 overs.

 

[The Engineers Room]

I found the game too easy so I created 20 odd players that weren't very good and replaced the entire NSW squad with them. Then put the NSW players into the other state squads randomly. Basically on 4* level it is almost impossible to hit a 4 yet alone a 6.

 

[CJG 182]

Ok so i just started playing this, 2 star is ridiculously easy! I bowled out South Africa in to world cup for 41. Chased it in 2 overs.

 

[Sanchez]

harder the levels then

 

[JoeD]

I've played cricket 02 and on the PC version at least I can't hardly tell the difference. The batting seems exactly the same as previous versions and the bowling still pisses me off. Its too easy to bowl wides and no balls. The wides especially seem rather random.

 

[ParraDude_Jay]

The big batting improvements are on PS2 with the century stick, there really isn't much you could do to improve it on computer I'd imagine.

The wides go from one extreme to the other in the two forms of cricket, for me anyway. They give wide to alot of good deliveries in one dayers but in tests I had Pollock bowling a delivery to me that was a good half a metre (by scale) behind Hayden and the umpire didn't call it.

 

[The Engineers Room]

The wides are not too bad. In one dayers the rules are more stringent.

 

[Sanchez]

anything leg side is done

even a swing and a miss that goes between leg stump and the batsman is wided sometimes

 

[JoeD]

I think i'm ready to move up a difficulty level (with batting at least) I just reverse swept Lee for 6 haha

 

[The Engineers Room]

anything leg side is done

even a swing and a miss that goes between leg stump and the batsman is wided sometimes

That is strange. The only bug I have found is that sometimes the umpire calls byes on a hit but the scorecard doesn't record it this way so I don't care.

 

[JoeD]

There are so many little things they could fix that have been bad from the beginning.
Just a few:
The wicketkeeper appealing to the bowlers umpire for run outs instead of square leg.
Appealing for every tight run and even some that aren't tight.
The ball physics is shocking - the ball bounces off the crowd and goes over the back of the stand. A ball that goes nearly straight up and lands just outside the circle suddenly bounces away from a fielder and goes for four.

 

[Sanchez]

that appealing for every run out annoys me after a while

 

[The Engineers Room]

There are so many little things they could fix that have been bad from the beginning.
Just a few:
The wicketkeeper appealing to the bowlers umpire for run outs instead of square leg.

Is that really an issue.

Appealing for every tight run and even some that aren't tight.

The appeal happens whenever the stumps are hit. I don't really care about that.

The ball physics is shocking... A ball that goes nearly straight up and lands just outside the circle suddenly bounces away from a fielder and goes for four.

This has never happened to me but perhaps the spin imparted onto the ball could cause this.

 

[Sanchez]

the ball thing isnt that big a deal

 

[Timmah]

OK. I've tried and tried but I give up.

HOW DO YOU HIT A SIX? :crazy:

 

[willvillain]

PC or other?

If it's PC, then shift+whatever you normally do. Timing etc obviously the key, but shift is the 'big hit' button.

Easiest places to hit sixes:

- Leg side is generally the easiest. Hooks/pulls/balls up on the pads all sail away.
- Straight drives/long-on
- Cover drive

Three easiest places.

 

[Eelementary]

If it's short, but not too short, advance down the wicket and use a lofted shot - chances are you'll smack it straight down the ground for 6.

 

[Sanchez]

yea good shot that

 

[Eelementary]

I think the Aussies' current form is rubbing off on me...

I'm doing a tour of the Windies as Australia. I've already played all the Tests and 4-day tour matches (won them all). And so we get to the One Day series and Tour matches.

First match is against Trinidad. My squad:

Shane Watson
Phil Jacques
Matthew Hayden
Simon Katich (C)
Luke Ronchi (WK)
Cameron White
Beau Casson
Mitchell Johnson
Ben Hilfenhaus
Nathan Bracken

They bat first, and score 271.

Chasing 272, we manage 272 with just one wicket to spare and one ball to spare. Mitchell Johnson top scores with 66*.

Next match is against the Windies. My squad:

Adam Gilchrist (WK)
Matthew Hayden
Ricky Ponting (C)
Michaek Hussey
Michael Clarke
Andrew Symonds
Cameron White
Shane Watson
Brad Hogg
Brett Lee
Glenn McGrath

They win the toss and bat first - they are all out eventually for 295.

So, chasing 296 for the win, we're all out for 285 - this, after my top four batsmen scored 200 runs amongst them!

I don't know what the hell happened to me, but I must admit it's kind of fun - adds spice to the rest of the series.