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Sureshot
07-03-2008, 11:07 AM
Tell us how you are doing on your game, who you have signed, who you have found to be brilliant, who you have found to be awful!

Any surprise successes on the international stage? Be it results wise or with a player who doesn't get a look in.

GrahamB
07-03-2008, 06:32 PM
Playing the international game, the OD game is a lot easier to gain success in than the tests. Bowling a side out in tests seems to be much more difficult than in previous versions.

MarksNotts
07-03-2008, 07:11 PM
Playing County game with Notts and doing okay, my batting form is good with Jefferson,Hussey and Read all starring so far, i am struggling to bowl sides out in the second innings though even with Broad/Sidebottom etc, one day form is good, Swann and the evergreen Mark Ealham excellent in this form of the game, havent got to 20/20 yet.

Agent47
07-06-2008, 12:05 PM
I am playing as India in the International mode. Just reached the finals of the 2011 world cup. Pleasantly surprised to find the old WC format. You play 6 group stage matches, the quarter final, the semi final and the final. Not too complicated.

Yorks13
07-07-2008, 11:25 PM
After playing my first game with Yorkshire on normal I was pleasantly surprised to see a Inns and 85 run win against Hampshire. This was after I decided to rest Vaughan, Hoggard, Gough, Brophy, Sayers, McGrath. Scoring 690 in my first innings on the game with Gale (168), Lyth (100) and Rashid
(114) scoring hundreds and Ballance (91) and Phyrah (95) just missing out. I then saw Wainwright rip through Hamphire in the 2nd Inns to take 5-34 and win me the game with 2 sessions to go. First impressions, another brilliant effort :D

Blocky
07-08-2008, 02:21 AM
Going well, although perplexed.

I follow cricket in NZ.

I've never heard of Iain Robertson, Greg Hay and Brandon Hiini have just come on the scene in first class and aren't anything special.

Yet, somehow, combined with Fulton - these guys are my top four batsmen.

Oram is now a guy who can bowl sides out and quite regularly takes the 4/40 type performance and the occassional 6-60.

Southee, Bond, Martin and Mills aren't even worth selection as bowlers, which is entirely baffling.

Where do you guys get your idea for stats in game?

GrahamB
07-08-2008, 05:25 AM
I've never heard of Iain Robertson, Greg Hay and Brandon Hiini have just come on the scene in first class and aren't anything special.

Yet, somehow, combined with Fulton - these guys are my top four batsmen.

Oram is now a guy who can bowl sides out and quite regularly takes the 4/40 type performance and the occassional 6-60.

Southee, Bond, Martin and Mills aren't even worth selection as bowlers, which is entirely baffling.

Where do you guys get your idea for stats in game?

Agreed regarding Fulton, Hiini, Hay and Robertson. They're my top four batsmen also.
Oram is a useful bowling allrounder.
Mills does okay for me, but I haven't bothered with Bond, Martin or Southee yet. Try Mason - he goes okay. Also Andrew MacKay is worth a look.

jcosgrove
07-08-2008, 05:55 AM
Just about to finish first season with Derbyshire. Surprisingly good squad on the batting front. Managed to get a score of 868/4 dec. with Ricki Clarke getting 321 and Rogers 247. Am running away with county championship 2nd division mainly due to my batting.

Will need a couple of bowlers for next season and interested to see who I can sign.

Sureshot
07-08-2008, 01:57 PM
I started up a game with Essex, on Normal difficulty obviously. Drawn both games in the Championship, declaring in the 600s on both occasions (on flat tracks). I tried to use the spinners at Chelmsford to win to bowl them out (forgotten who it was). I did force them to follow on, but they survived.

I brought Merv Westfield in for my 2nd Championship game, at Derby, and he did very well, 5-162 and 1-12 in their second, short, innings. A double for Ravi in that one. I won my first game in the FPT, thanks to my spinners. Even Flower grabbed two, at 9.5 an over for 4 overs though. I love his hair colour, it's brighter than the top of their kit!

Yorks13
07-10-2008, 01:56 PM
A tense win. After bowling out Notts for 280 1st Innings on a spinners track with D Wainwright taking 6-95 (comments - seems to take all his wickets in big chunks then has a barren spell). I then proceeded to rack up 677-9 Dec with A Lyth (195) and A Gale (173) sharing an all time Yorks record partenrship (in only 2nd game), then bowled out Notts for 443 after a massive opening stand. I needed 47 to win with 5 overs left, 2 to win of the last ball... and Phyrah strokes it to the boundary for an 8 wkt win and to end up with 29 of 15 balls. This is all on normal difficulty and is different to game mentioned above as i got a new computer.

Sureshot
07-11-2008, 09:08 AM
Eventually won my first CC game, against Middlesex. Chasing down 297 in just 55 overs in the last 2 sessions on Day Four. Tim Phillips grabbing 5-85 in the first innings. Went through the T20, won 4 out of 10. Didn't get enough runs.

I've been impressed by Palladino, one of the few bowlers at Essex who look like getting wickets.

MarksNotts
07-11-2008, 09:14 AM
Eventually won my first CC game, against Middlesex. Chasing down 297 in just 55 overs in the last 2 sessions on Day Four. Tim Phillips grabbing 5-85 in the first innings. Went through the T20, won 4 out of 10. Didn't get enough runs.

I've been impressed by Palladino, one of the few bowlers at Essex who look like getting wickets.


How have you found Gallian ?, he used to get bags of runs for me when he was at Notts.

Ayub95
07-11-2008, 03:58 PM
I found Galian rubbish in 16 FC games 167 runs at 16.?? Chopra 1023 at 40.?? the diffrence is big and cook 1500 in 11 FC Game

Sureshot
07-13-2008, 09:45 AM
How have you found Gallian ?, he used to get bags of runs for me when he was at Notts.

He's just finding form, no big score as yet. But he has scored 4 half centuries in a row. Struggling with my openers. Cook is off at England a lot of the time, Pettini and Chopra aren't doing much.

I'm loving this game. Very addictive, although maybe that's because I can't wait to get to the transfer window so I can buy a decent pace bowler!

Won 5 out of 5 Pro40 games. Kaneria and Phillips are doing very well in those games, Ten Doeschate is a decent OD bowler too. Though I don't fully trust him. Bopara is on fire, 1240 runs in 11 FC matches. Would be nice to win a trophy in my first season.

MarksNotts
07-13-2008, 11:28 AM
He's just finding form, no big score as yet. But he has scored 4 half centuries in a row. Struggling with my openers. Cook is off at England a lot of the time, Pettini and Chopra aren't doing much.

I'm loving this game. Very addictive, although maybe that's because I can't wait to get to the transfer window so I can buy a decent pace bowler!

Won 5 out of 5 Pro40 games. Kaneria and Phillips are doing very well in those games, Ten Doeschate is a decent OD bowler too. Though I don't fully trust him. Bopara is on fire, 1240 runs in 11 FC matches. Would be nice to win a trophy in my first season.

Thats not bad going, as regards to Gallian i always found him better when you left him on 1 or 2 bars aggression, as he is a good slow accumilator of runs. And yes this new version is definitely the best yet, so addictive, i havent stopped playing it since it came out.

Sureshot
07-15-2008, 11:23 AM
Winning games is very rewarding, especially when your bowling attack is as weak as mine. Masters and Kaneria are firing now though. Even Tudor is getting wickets. Looks like promotion out of Pro40 Div 2 is a certainty, mid-table finish in the CC.

Detroit500
07-18-2008, 08:01 PM
right now i advanced to the 20 Over final against Kent. I play as Somerset, I went 9-1 during the whole season. Last game i scored 183-2..with 22 runs coming off just the 1st over. Justin Langer joined our team in the KO stage..he's a beast!! He had international duties to do for a long time..now my team is a monster with Langer.
Currently 1st place in my Pro League..6th in County Champ..i got knocked off in the challenge trophy after the 1st round (KO stage).
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I also play as Windies..we're 5th in ODI and 8th in Test after about 4 series..I got Sri Lanka next..I must win Test and ODI to gain points.

Sureshot
07-19-2008, 09:19 PM
I lost 8 games in my group with Essex in the T20, my overall NetRR was -16.

Doing well in the Championship. Currently 4th, 27 points behind 1st. Mid-season. Pettini and Gallian are in the runs. Bopara has got back into form after a woeful T20, Foster is getting runs too.

acook
07-19-2008, 09:55 PM
just finnished 1st season with lancs. won county championship on the final day and won the t20 cup. yousuf scored 1710 runs and anderson took 91 wickets. However I've let yousuf go and brought in shaun masrh as overseas. Let sutton chapple cork smith newby sutcliffe chilton and marshall go. Law retired. brought in trescothick, luke wright and charl willoughby. gareth cross is now my keeper and I have no back up. I also have a second team full of youngsters.

itsreallybig
07-20-2008, 06:01 PM
Hi All,

I started out with Essex in Div 2, won the league easily and in the first season in Div 1 one the league again. I was rubbish at the limited overs games but im not too worried about that.

In the last 2 years, my best batter has been Ryan ten Doeschate who in this season in Div 1 scored 2104 runs (highest 279), last season he scored 1921 runs so he's been my life saver. Best bowler has been my pakistan spinner Kaneira who last season took 130 wickets and this season took 121 wickets. Alistair Cook has been off doing the international team thing so ive been relying on Ryan ten Doeschate and Jefferson who I bought after the first season. Oh and I also won the Div 1 CC with a record of 8 wins and 8 draws with 0 losses. starting to enjoy the game now

Detroit500
07-20-2008, 06:16 PM
West Indies just won the test series against Sri lanks going 1-0...we had exceptional bowling in the frirst test match making our 2nd innings an easy run chase of 223.
In the second test match we batted untill the end of 3rd day session 1..bowled sri lanka out cheap. but they managed to rebound batting untill the end of the match.
Now i must play the ODI's and win! :cool:

G-Reb
07-22-2008, 11:26 AM
i started an England career and just started the 3rd year as captain, my test team consist of A.Cook, M.Carberry, J.Flynn, K.Pieterson, O.Shah, L.Wright (due to P.Collingwood retirement), T.Ambrose, R.Sidebottom, J.Anderson, M.Hoggard and M.Munday.

I have found that Michael Munday is a superstar and has taken 184 wickets in 27 tests and Alistair Cook is a gun with the bat scoring 2000 runs in his first 2 seasons.
we are second on the test list, and 6th on the ODI list, with the leader of test batting A.Cook nd bowling M.Munday

Great game, kepp the good stuff up

Sureshot
07-23-2008, 11:06 AM
I'm now into 2010 with Essex. Middlebrook and Westfield were released. Tom Smith (the Lancs one) and a youth batsman called Marcus Bowes were signed. Smith has been economical and Bowes scored two centuries in a win over Worcs, and got 2 wickets in the second innings. Handy little leg-spinner.

Good start. Won 2 Championship games, but lost to Somerset. They signed Rashid. And won my last 2 Challenge Trophy games. Middlesex and Sussex the sufferers. I have to bowl first, otherwise I lose. I'm happy with the side, though my seamers are still a bit of a problem. Smith is likely to play the whole season, if he doesn't bag wickets, he is always tight. Masters is good in the shorter formats, not so good in the Championship.

Myrmecophaga
07-23-2008, 12:03 PM
I'm in '10 now with Surrey. I have a RF and a RFM bowler, each with a second team average of 17.something. I have signed Rahul Dravid, Ambrose, Jefferson and Afzaal, and so have a pretty amazing batting line up,.

G-Reb
07-29-2008, 07:46 AM
Im cruising through this game with England and am on top of the test ranks and have jsut won my second World Cup, some great players are A.Cook, Julian Flynn, Mitch Rowell and Michael Munday.

I will psot some screen shots shortly

Sureshot
07-29-2008, 03:10 PM
I am about to enter 2011 with Essex. Oh dear, I am in for a toughie.

I was fed-up with a lot of seamers doing nothing, I think I released about 10 players. But Ali Cook didn't keep his England contract, I did re-sign him, at an almighty 92k. I simply ran out of funds though. So I have 3 youth players filling up my squad. My batting is fine. But if Danish gets injured I will be awful. Still, it's a new challenge and I'm up for it.

Bowled_Him
08-04-2008, 01:55 PM
Having started up the customary Hampshire game, i have found it a lot harder than previous versions, but in a nice way, it is certainly a challenge.

I ahve just started my 3rd season (I am mid way through may). the first 2 seasons were very tough. In both we narrowly avoided relegation in the County championship. The FP trophy was a loss, finish 4 out of 5 in both seasons. Pro 40 we were relegated in the first season and lost the play-off in season 2. Twenty20 has been something of a relief, reaching the quaters both years, mainly thanks to Sean Ervine.

Hampshire Season 1 & 2:

Pro's -
Strong t20 showings bodes well for other limited over contest
Michael Brown - Over 1200 runs in both seasons
Chris Tremlett - Hasnt set the world alight, but has been best bowler
Nic pothas - Hioghest scoring WK in the country, although often inj
Usually Strong batting in FC has laid many good foundations
Dale Steyn - Overseas signing for 2010 has shown good form from the word go, unlike Malinga and Bond in previous seasons
Season 3 signing Luke Wright offers excellent all-round abillity in the OD game, but questions remain over FC potential
Other s3 signing, james Treadwell, has filled a previousy gaping hole in the spin department and is good for 20/30 runs at the end of an innings


Cons

Bowling has been very weak with Tremlett and Mascheranas bearing a heavy workload
Worrying lack of youth talent
Lack of depth, not in quantity terms, but definately quality. Tom Burrows, James Tomlinson, Kevin Latouf anyone??
Mediocre performances in previous seasons has led to a lack of funds for training physio and most importantly youth development
Batting line up is brittle and Sean Ervine is only middle order batsmen to score runs consistently
We are susceptible to international call-ups, tremlett mascheranas and Carrberry have all been rendered unavailable at various times.


Overall though i see light at the end of the tunnel, Treadwell's arrival has been a godsend and luke wright has had a fantastic start in the FP trophy (105 off 81 as an opener on debut against Wocsetershire. Dale Steyn has been a superb strike bowler thus far.

However we may well struggle when it comes to a more advanced stage of the season, a lack of coaching and absence of physio sessions (20,000 and 10,000 respectively) will hit hard once the t20 comes around

qpeedore
08-06-2008, 04:07 AM
I played with Middlesex, in my second season now. I didn't really do anything of note in my first season but I didn't find it to be too bad either.

- Brad Godleman was the top run scorer for me last season, topping 1500 runs in FC. Narrowly missed out on being the top scorer of the entire league due to my last game being a little more batsman friendly for my opponents that I really wanted.

- Andrew Strauss and Owais Shah missed almost every game last season due to their England contracts. Shah started this season well, scoring two centuries and a double in his only three innings this season before being selected by England again.

- Murali Kartik has been a steady lower order batsman in both seasons, hanging around while someone from the middle order takes most of the strike. But Kartik has has his share of good scores too, including a high of 69 last season in addition to 2 other fifties. He averages around 30 currently.

- Chris Silverwood has been the mainstay of my bowling. The other bowlers have their moments but simply cannot be consistent like him. He's a decent batsman too, getting a couple of fifties. (My biggest highlight with him was in ICCIII, though, where he got a match-winning century.)

- Steven Finn or Alan Richardson is usually my other strike bowler, but like I said, they aren't that consistent. I have problems with a fourth bowler and I usually just call someone up from the second team for a couple games before sending them back down.

- As far as all-rounders go, I use Ed Joyce. I know he's just in the game as a batsman but last year he averaged 41 and took 43 wickets at 41, with a best of 6/72 and a high score of 172 not out.

- Biggest disappointments? Chris Peploe (but I'm keeping him since I'll NEED a spinner for the inevitable selection by India of Kartik...happened in ICCIII), almost every all rounder that I've had except a member of the youth team named Chris Bucknall, everyone else except Ed Joyce as a part-time bowler, umpiring decisions from time to time.

Sureshot
08-08-2008, 12:33 PM
Did better in 2011 than I thought. Mainly due to Kaneria. Some stellar batting performances too. Whitworth scored 1,000 runs in OD games. Brady scored 1,400 in FC. 13th CC, 12th Pro40, QFs CT, R1 T20 (by one point!)

Masters and Phillips retired at end of season.

Brought in: Plunkett, Lawson, Clare (Derby all-rounder). Then some youths. Cook got his England contract back.

qpeedore
08-09-2008, 12:51 AM
I just won my most recent match against Warwickshire, with Murali Kartik giving me 6 wickets in the first innings and 5 in the second. Some resistance from Ian Trott in both innings.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v717/ghetto_smurf/2.jpg

Check out my top scores in the second innings. After a partnership of 188 between the two, they fell in successive overs. One was hard...two almost gave me a heart attack.

EDIT: By the way...how do you get the photo as a clickable thumbnail instead of this huge thing which clearly disrupts the layout?

Yorks13
08-11-2008, 06:57 PM
I'm 5 games into my 2nd season with Yorkshire, won the FC in my first year, no one was exceptional, although Wainwright came along well, Phyrah was very consistent at the top of the order and my WK problem was solved due to the signing of Youth player W Wilkins halfway through the season now averages 60 from 13 FC games, in 2nd season have won all 5 games so far getting maximum points in all of them, Wainwright has been a revelation with 45 wickets, Tremlett has been a disappointment with 5 wkts at 66, top order of Pyrah, Rudolph, Van Jaarsveld, M Ul-Haq and Wilkins have all fired, this is all on normal difficulty, I recommend being Yorkshire.

G-Reb
08-13-2008, 09:59 AM
I have progressed a few more seasons with England. I have found that Cook and Carberry are a great opening pair. Michael Munday is a freak bowler with 400+ wickets in 60 games. Owasis Shah and Mitch Rowell dominate my middle order with Rowell scoring 3 200+ innings in a row

Sureshot
08-13-2008, 11:54 AM
qpeedore.

You should be able to put images into a thumbnail by putting it in the attachments tab in the post reply options. I have enclosed an image I've uploaded from My Pictures...

Edit: Yes, that's how you get a thumbnail.

rishi
08-13-2008, 06:36 PM
I had couple games wid Hamshire just for testing.
Started on with Derbyshire, had terrible seasn, finished last in all championships. Even Scotland managed to beat me :(:mad:
but. started wid 2nd season.. made some major releases n resignin. currently playin widout ne intrnl player. yet doin prewtty well.
but wuld start again.. frm fresh.. n hope.. i build new strong relnshp wid d team players :)

Sureshot
08-20-2008, 05:19 PM
My Essex save is going okay. Had yet another shocker in the T20. Never got to grips with that game. Plunkett has been brilliant in FC cricket. Kaneria has been poor in shorter formats. 1 wicket in 8 T20 games, averaging about 80 in List A cricket, too!

I'm plodding along. Not doing anything exceptional, not doing anything abysmal (barring T20!).

qpeedore
08-20-2008, 07:40 PM
Well my Middlesex story is from my main game so if you want to know, check it out! (cheap plug)

To sum it up, I've not had a good limited overs time so far, finishing last in both the T20 and the 50 over leagues. I'm trying out some new stuff, switching around a few people and so far it's working out for me.

Ed Smith has been exceptional with the bat. He averages over 55 this season in first class games, and over 40 in limited overs. He's almost the lead run scorer of the entire season, with under a hundred to go to surpass Jacques Rudolph. I hope he does that. Last season Godleman was going to the top scorer but in the last game of the season he scored a double against Middlesex, my team, of all things...and he took the top scorer title away from me.

rishi
08-21-2008, 12:23 AM
Well Now I am with Middlesex, and they r quite a strong team to reckon. Pace Bowling is very penetrative, and Murali Kartik then chips in wid a wicket or two. But whnever d fast bowlers fail, runs flow like hell!!

another issue wid ths team is if England calls for players 2-3 players r at risk of being on duty, and hence weakenin d team.

Developin Murtagh into a gud allrounder, but need a stable middle order bat next season! uptil now 1 win in FC and 1 draw and 1 win 1 loss in Champions Trophy. I am playin my first season wid Middlesex

rishi
08-24-2008, 11:45 PM
Match West Indies vs Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka batting first scored substancial total 440+. In reply WI going well until Murali decides to show some of his tricks:rolleyes:

From 295/5 to 305 all out:(

footy99
08-25-2008, 07:31 PM
I can understand punishing a team for not picking a genuine keeper but I reckon this is a bit out of control.

qpeedore
08-26-2008, 12:23 AM
Ouch. That's a LOT. Even Extras scored a century.

Sureshot
09-11-2008, 12:59 PM
Finally reached a One Day final with Essex. Thanks to Lawson and Kaneria. They are my match winners, though I want Lawson to do better in FC cricket.

I lost to Leics in the final, only scored 180 due to being 30-5! The season finished in a fairly average way. Had a bit more money to spend in the transfer window because of the CT runners-up prize. Released Plunkett and Clare. Signed Danny Ash (RHB, RF) and Chris Behm (LM).

Nuts4Notts
09-22-2008, 12:05 PM
I've been playing with Notts, first season my side successfully bottled the Pro 40 title, (2nd after losing last 2 games) the FP Trophy (lost in final) and the championship (came 2nd after losing to Hants in last game) which was a bit upsetting.

David Hussey must be the best batsman on the game though, scored 2000+ runs in first season @ 75, with Samit Patel not far behind.

In the off season I signed Michael Munday (spinner) from Somerset, amazingly they didnt play him in the ODIs, he has been excellent for me in all matches so far this season. Also signed Ryan Mclaren who has been a wicket taking machine as well...

Other top batters I have found on a previous game was Ryan Ten Doscherate, who is always up near the top of the averages/runs scored table. Michael Yardy always seems to score runs as well. I desperately need some more aggressive batsman though for the next season, ideally a good opener (I sucked in the 20/20 in me first season).

Screenwriters CC
10-01-2008, 07:44 PM
I can understand punishing a team for not picking a genuine keeper but I reckon this is a bit out of control.

:D - I would love to see both the fan and media reaction to this decision and its outcome!


I'm currently on 2017 (on medium level) and playing as Middlesex (never taking control of England):

2007
CC Division Two: 1st
Pro40 Division Two: 1st
Challenge Trophy: Winner
Twenty20 Cup: Winner

2008
CC Division One: 2nd
Pro40 Div One: 1st
Challenge Trophy: Winner
Twenty20 Cup: SF

2009 - 2016
CC Division One: 1st Every Year! :p
Pro40 Div One: 1st Every Year apart from 2015 when I slipped to 6th!! :eek:
Challenge Trophy: Winner 4 times (Runner Up once, Semi Finalist twice and Group Stage once, again in 2015!!!)
Twenty20 Cup: Winner 4 Times (Quarter Finalist twice and Group Stage twice, although I won this one in 2015 at least!)

2017 is going well and I've reached the first T20 match of the season. I currently top the CC and won the CT South Group, with Somerset, Glamorgan and Hampshire being the other teams in particular good form this season.

bhupabhupa
10-06-2008, 05:45 AM
First of all I thank to the makers of the game for making a superb game like ICC 2008. I have started India as my International team. All the team members are doing well. Series against Australia was full of surprise. I beat them in all four test matches by an inning. Tendulkar scored four hundreds, Dravid three, Sehwag three and Laxman two.

Sureshot
10-08-2008, 07:58 PM
I finally have gotten out of the group stages of the 20-20! We're doing well this season, though we are waning in the CC slightly.

Screenwriters CC
10-21-2008, 12:02 AM
Carrying on from three posts above…

I finished with a clean sweep in the latest season, Winning CC Division One, Pro40 Division One, Challenge Trophy and Twenty20 Cup! First time I've managed to get all four, since 2011! However I was extremely lucky in two of them. Firstly the Twenty20 Cup Final was Middlesex/Surrey for a start. They needed just a few off the last over and one of the last couple of balls to win. However the scores ended up tied with me winning the cup by losing fewer wickets!! Pro40 looked probably lost as well with me 2 points behind Glamorgan (who had only lost once) going in to the final game, although my NRR was a lot higher. I won and they were somehow slaughtered, therefore sealing all four titles.

I've started the next season and the World Cup is on, hence about half my starting team are away, including my three frontline bowlers. On top of this, my first choice replacement bowler is injured as well as one of my remaining top batsman. However I've still managed to win all of my games so far in all comps, quite largely due to a Mr. A Rashid. So far that is just three CC games and maybe four or five CT matches, but things are going well. England find themselves third in the Super 8s after 5 games, hope they can go all the way as the current opening partnership is 100% Middlesex!

With all of my tournament wins, my budget is always ensured to be extremely high and I decided to invest in all of the promising youth players this year. Within my seconds, three of the new batsmen (all aged between 20-22 and playing their first games for the club) are averaging over 55, scoring at least one 100 and two 50s in just a small handful of games.

2019 is a sad time in a way, as KP no longer makes it in to the England team! Neither does Alistair Cook in fact and those two are the only remaining current real England players that are left playing first team cricket domestically. All of the other players have either not been offered contracts and are therefore gone from the game entirely (which is the case for nearly all of them!) or for a luckily few, they have of course retired by now. For those interested, KP is still at Hants and Cook is still at Essex.

Cyril Washbrook
11-19-2008, 08:42 AM
I'm baffled at how many people seem to do so well. I'm playing with Hampshire at the moment and am struggling to win a single game. In my first season, I lost every single 20/20 fixture, won a single Championship match and got knocked out in the first match after the group stage for the Challenge Trophy. I'm constantly conceding around 500 to 600 runs in the Championship, struggling to dismiss tailenders who manage to score centuries (or in one case a double century), and keep getting bowled out for ludicrous totals (like 35 for one 20/20 match). It seems that the only tactic people suggest on this forum is along the lines of "bowl a good length on middle-and-leg and hope for the best", which I've tried with absolutely no success whatsoever.

aus5892
11-21-2008, 05:11 AM
In my first season I struggled a fair bit, it usually takes a bit of time to develop your players and get into the game properly.

As for bowling tactics, you want to play to your opponent's weaknesses - if a batsman is strong on the off side, bowl to middle and leg. If he's good on the back foot, bowl it full. Of course you can mix it up if nothing else is working.

Sureshot
11-21-2008, 05:47 PM
First seasons are awful on 08, very difficult. But it's good, means you have to build a team. Unless you go with one of the better teams, anyway. I went with Essex, who have such a weak bowling unit it is untrue!

Cyril Washbrook
11-22-2008, 02:05 AM
Thanks for the suggestions. I'll see how it all goes. I've started another county game from scratch so I'll continue to persist. I've had a lot more success playing for Australia as an international team, so that's keeping me optimistic about my chances in the domestic leagues. :P

Hampshire seems to be good in terms of the batting/bowling ratings (5 stars on batting and 3.5 on bowling), which ostensibly makes it one of the strongest teams, but I guess once you remove Bond, Tremlett and Pietersen from the equation it becomes a whole lot harder!

Cyril Washbrook
11-24-2008, 05:08 AM
Doing better at the moment, but have just torn all my hair out after losing a ridiculous one-dayer. I had Worcs 9-230 after 40 overs chasing 310. Their number 8 and number 11 batsmen then put together 81 runs in 8.2 overs - offering not a single chance in the process - to win the match. *screams*

EDIT: I finished a credible third with Hants in my first season (courtesy of four wins, one loss and eleven draws!), and I've just started the second. I jettisoned Shane Bond (not performing + I need good bowlers who won't spend time on international duty) and picked up Michael Bevan as a batsman. And I managed to snare Naqqash Tahir, who was the leading wicket-taker in the first season with 116 wickets in 16 matches. I've just played my first county championship fixture and he and Tremlett are on fire. Bevan notched up a century, too. Tremlett will probably be picked for England but I'm hoping that Tahir will remain behind.

Top performers in Season 1:

Carberry:
16 / 32 / 7 / 1731 / 232* / 69.24 / 5 / 6 / 43.36
14 / 14 / 0 / 680 / 136 / 48.57 / 1 / 5 / 82.32

16 / 264 / 832 / 26 / 32.00 / 5-80 / 1 / 0 / 3.15
14 / 80 / 434 / 11 / 39.45 / 3-39 / 0 / 0 / 5.38

Crawley (C):
13 / 22 / 3 / 1335 / 140* / 70.26 / 5 / 8 / 53.44
10 / 9 / 1 / 265 / 62 / 33.12 / 0 / 2 / 82.81

Lumb:
16 / 27 / 9 / 1032 / 146* / 57.33 / 3 / 4 / 61.67
16 / 13 / 6 / 251 / 51* / 35.86 / 0 / 1 / 118.38

Brown:
14 / 25 / 1 / 1028 / 147 / 42.83 / 4 / 4 / 46.29
15 / 15 / 1 / 532 / 94 / 38.00 / 0 / 4 / 75.34

Tremlett:
16 / 728 / 2332 / 79 / 29.52 / 6-62 / 4 / 1 / 3.20
20 / 177 / 781 / 31 / 25.19 / 3-27 / 0 / 0 / 4.41

Cyril Washbrook
12-02-2008, 01:50 AM
Season 2 summary...

Tremendously successful season - won the county championship by 38 points, semi-finalists in the Challenge Trophy and promoted to D1 in the Pro-League. Michael Bevan replaced Shane Bond as the international player, and proved to be an outstanding investment, scoring over 2000 runs in first-class and one-day fixtures. I had dropped Sean Ervine for the first five matches of the season because of poor form... but when he came back, he was stunning. Absolutely stunning. In 19 innings, he scored 8 centuries and 10 fifties. He's become pretty much a specialist batsman now - I don't use him with the ball all that often.

Carberry's excellent form continued, once again averaging over 60 in first-class matches and Tremlett avoided being selected for England and did well. Tahir was called up by England but didn't play a match.

Top performers in Season 2:

Ervine:
11 / 20 / 5 / 1769 / 159 / 117.93 / 8 / 10 / 55.42 (blimey!)
8 / 8 / 1 / 348 / 126 / 49.71 / 1 / 1 / 81.10

Carberry:
14 / 27 / 2 / 1571 / 229 / 62.84 / 6 / 5 / 45.73
17 / 17 / 0 / 901 / 131 / 53.00 / 3 / 4 / 79.22

14 / 160 / 471 / 19 / 24.79 / 3-39 / 0 / 0 / 2.94
17 / 78 / 336 / 14 / 24.00 / 4-30 / 0 / 0 / 4.27

Bevan:
16 / 29 / 6 / 1475 / 150 / 64.13 / 7 / 5 / 51.66
18 / 18 / 4 / 606 / 91 / 43.29 / 0 / 5 / 73.27

Crawley:
16 / 24 / 5 / 846 / 153* / 44.53 / 3 / 3 / 54.47
15 / 14 / 6 / 291 / 79* / 36.37 / 0 / 1 / 98.97

Tremlett:
16 / 707 / 2222 / 86 / 25.84 / 6-93 / 4 / 0 / 3.14
18 / 151 / 685 / 44 / 15.57 / 4-28 / 0 / 0 / 4.53
10 / 39 / 211 / 13 / 16.23 / 4-16 / 0 / 0 / 5.41

aus5892
12-02-2008, 05:59 AM
Interesting, I could never get Ervine to perform consistently in this game (unlike 2005/06, in which he was great). Carberry is a gun though.

Cyril Washbrook
12-02-2008, 12:51 PM
Interesting, I could never get Ervine to perform consistently in this game (unlike 2005/06, in which he was great). Carberry is a gun though.
In my first season he wasn't very good in my game - 33 with the bat in both forms of the game and pretty ordinary with the ball. I was flabbergasted at how well he's been doing (as you would have to be). I'm almost done with Season 3 at the moment, and he's on fire now as well - not quite as good as Season 2, but his overall FC average is now getting up around 45 and he's narrowly on track to beat the 1769 championship run mark that he set in the aforementioned season.

aus5892
12-02-2008, 11:54 PM
I'm up to 2012 now and I got rid of him a while ago. Just have enough talented youngsters at the moment.

Typical Stroke
12-10-2008, 03:43 PM
I am playing only county season with Somerset and I am in Season 2031. poor performance in first 5 years after 2013 my team done well in first class cricket and won all County Championship except 2020 finished 2nd. After season 2022 my team is doing well and won all county championship 2 Pro League and 4 time Twenty20 Cup.

Season County Championship Pro League Challenge Trophy Twenty20
2008 09 03 R1 SF
2009 10 06 SF R1
2010 06 06 QF R1
2011 05 08 W R1
2012 03 13 QF QF
2013 01 10 SF R1
2014 01 07 SF R1
2015 01 16 SF R1
2016 01 16 R1 R1
2017 01 12 R1 QF
2018 01 11 R1 R1
2019 01 03 SF R1
2020 02 05 SF QF
2021 01 04 SF R1
2022 01 08 R1 R1
2023 01 10 QF W
2024 01 09 SF QF
2025 01 11 QF W
2026 01 07 QF QF
2027 01 01 SF QF
2028 01 04 SF W
2029 01 01 R1 SF
2030 01 03 SF W
Total
Win 17 02 01 04
Win % 73.91 08.69 04.34 17.39

Fozzie-Stars
12-22-2008, 04:37 PM
Bresnan is a legend

rbsons
02-18-2009, 06:41 PM
I haven't been doing anyhwere near as well as use guys (although you have given me some usful tips). I have been playing for northamptonshire and been fairly consistent in the championship finishing just outside of promotion. Panesar takes a stack of wickets for me gets into the england side, gets dropped and then gets a stack of wickets for me etc. David Sales has constantly scored runs and has carried the batting with some help from others. The recent signings of loye and enly have been successful. However the seam bowling has been shocking, I signed mohammad saif who averaged over 40 so dropped to the 2nd XI and then released. just signed Dale Steyn who has started with 7 for, will see what happens.

biggy09
02-23-2009, 10:02 AM
Bresnan is a legend

That's mad bro! Most wickets I ever got in a row was 4 with someone but I forgot who lol.

I have played a few International Seasons with Australia and other teams, and it's great to see Tail Enders hitting hundreds, hehe. I play on easy but still, Jason Krezja scoring 223* is not bad and Graeme Smith making a 200+ in an ODI was fun. :)

Although I did play a Test series against Banga on Normal Difficulty and Bryce McGain on debut took 9/76 (or so runs) in the first innings.

x07harda
03-04-2009, 12:50 PM
Currently playing the 2011 season as Hampshire and Australia, have been very good in both CC and Challenge Trophy with a number of my players excelling from season to season.
Some of the standouts are:

M Carberry: averaged more than 55 for past 3 seasons
C Woodcock: career average of 52 in his third year
C Tremlett: averaging 25 with the ball in past 3 seasons
K Dias: international player who took 110+ wickets at 17 in 1 season
S Prassana: another intrernational player who took 110+ wickets at 16 in 1 season

Only problem I have with the game so far is the cpu national selections, only one of my players has been selected for national duty (K Pietersen) during my career despite having two of the top 4 english batsmen in both first class and OD (based on averages), also two of my foreign players have had standout years when playing for me yet they have only manged one ODI between them. Is anybody else having this problem or do all national selectors just hate my coaching.

Cyril Washbrook
03-06-2009, 05:06 AM
No, it's not just you - national selection and selection in general are real problems. The issue is that the CPU seems to pick players based on their skill, or alternatively their potential (i.e. a combination of skill and age). Performance and form appear to play a minimal role.

Consequently, a few problems emerge: (1) you get cases like batsmen playing 50 tests in which they've managed one century; they get picked again and again purely because of their hidden skill attributes. (2) the game is far too sensitive to age: even if a batsman or bowler does have good form and good hidden skill attributes (you can roughly work it out their skill by looking at how many runs they need to score in order for their match form to be good), if they're 27 or 28 they probably won't get a cap. Which is absolute nonsense in the real world. Conversely, players get picked before they're ready - you get 21 year olds who score a decent amount of runs in their county side, but before you know it, they're in the test side... and averaging about 30.

biggy09
03-07-2009, 09:34 AM
Just played my first season in Full Game mode, played with Somerset and Michael Munday was a madman..

http://i556.photobucket.com/albums/ss2/biggylic09/MundayMadness.jpg

Cyril Washbrook
03-08-2009, 07:19 AM
Munday's far too good - in my Hampshire save, when Munday takes fewer than 110 wickets in a season (for Somerset), then I regard him as having had a poor season. And just to highlight the need for an overhaul of how players are selected for international sides in ICC, he has never played a test match in my save either.

Sureshot
03-11-2009, 08:51 AM
Just got back in to playing this again, currently in my first season with Leics. Doing well in the FPT, dire in the Championship. Poor back up bowling and a batting line up that is susceptible to collapsing. Good challenge. :)

the_gas
03-11-2009, 05:13 PM
I am struggling to regain interest in the game after i lost my Somerset save, i was about 15 years in and had some really good young English players.

str
03-19-2009, 12:53 AM
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imm0rtalmask
03-19-2009, 12:53 AM
Hello,I just want to say Hi to all members of this forum!

Cyril Washbrook
03-19-2009, 11:01 PM
[images]
Indeed, using the editor or repeatedly reloading the game can produce some amazing results.

str
03-21-2009, 03:22 AM
Never used editor . restart your PC again and again will crash both PC and game .


Make very poor for bowlers wicket and start scoring runs . You can chase 300 in one day with out losing a wicket .

Cyril Washbrook
03-21-2009, 11:17 PM
Never used editor . restart your PC again and again will crash both PC and game .

Make very poor for bowlers wicket and start scoring runs . You can chase 300 in one day with out losing a wicket .
By reloading the game, I mean: opening the "Saves" folder, copy-pasting the save file, then quitting the game every time you lose a wicket, deleting the original save and loading the copied save... then repeat. I guess there are other techniques, but that's one of the common ones I've seen people do in various games. I don't believe that scoresheet could happen for one second. You've clearly put your players on close to full aggression for the entire innings; and you're expecting us to believe that you can just go through at full aggression with two mediocre batsmen and have them score, oh, a lazy couple of thousand runs. It's inconsequential, really - you're welcome to do whatever you like with your own game - but it's really obvious when people do it.

str
03-22-2009, 03:43 AM
Played with Hampshire . Very poor for bowlers wicket-
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/9081/41791816.jpg (http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=41791816.jpg)

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/3716/54083661.jpg (http://img148.imageshack.us/my.php?image=54083661.jpg)

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anubhav0724
03-22-2009, 07:57 PM
im currently playing wid sri lanka in international and im currently in
2022 april.....i have the 2023 world cup next year....quite impressing that ive reached so far....jayawardene retired on 39 years and sanath retired in 2011

quite fassinating.....in a test match against aus....mahela scored 529*....lol
i knw.....i made a man called w palleguruge....and played wid him 99 test before he retired and he took 600 test wickets....

really good feature of rankings......

I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO KNW IF THERE ARE ANY CHEAT CODES OR SOME TRICKS OF THIS GAME....

AND YA IN THIS GAME BANGLADESH IS HELL LOT BETTER TEAM....BANGLADESH WON THE 2011 WC, 2014 WC AND REACHED TILL THE FINALS IN 2019....POFF..!!

WAITING FOR REPLY...!

str
03-23-2009, 04:27 AM
Bangladesh's Farhad Reza can win a match from no where in ICC 2008 . But most of the time he fails when I play with him . He plays better against me . Opener Mehrab Hossain scored 165 in a world cup match for me . He is a gold standard . Scored 132 against Australia .

aggvaibhav
03-23-2009, 06:43 AM
I guess I am also facing the hazards of not taking Bangladesh as my team. I reached the finals of the 2011 WC and I guess Bangladesh beating me in that was inevitable.

Am currently in January 2022 wating to reach 2030 where I guess we might get players who are not even born now. That i presume will be something amazing. My best player thus far has been M. Singh who is currently playing and is 30 years of age with a batting average of 72 in 68 tests.

ANyone to beat him?

str
03-23-2009, 02:17 PM
Bangladesh has good youth players . I won the 2011 world cup . Lost against Bangladesh in group stage .

Now I have more skills . Bangladesh is not a problem anymore .

str
03-23-2009, 02:27 PM
ANyone to beat him?

I can beat him but I have 8 or 9 saves with different teams . So it will take some time .

aggvaibhav
03-23-2009, 03:58 PM
I can understand but still it is very difficult to make a player of such class who will maintain an average of 72 throughout his test career.. That is Bradmanesque you see.

What are your ICC rankings?

str
03-24-2009, 04:26 PM
I made an international team with all bowlers and a wicket keeper . Won two World Cups . Number one in ODI rankings . skipping the tests .

Bowlers can really bat . Piyush Chawla is doing great . I think he can take over 800 wickets both test and ODI and score over 8000 runs .

Auric Goldfinger
03-25-2009, 09:01 PM
I got an excellent game going with Glamorgan. In the second season, I came second in the 1st division of the County Championship, reached the semi-finals of the Twenty20, won the Pro40 2nd division and the Challenge Trophy.

I signed Di Venuto, Bopara, Cooray (Sri Lanka) and Broad for the new season. The team now looks like this:

1. Francois Du Plessis
2. Michael Di Venuto
3. Ryan Ten doeschate
4. Ravinder Bopara
5. Jamie Dalrymple
6. Michael Powell
7. Phil Mustard
8. Stuart Broad
9. Adam Shantry
10. Cooray
11. James Harris

I also have Ryan Watkins (had a class first season with the bat but a poor second season), Matthew Wood, Dean Eldershaw (young fast bowling all rounder but a better batsman than bowler), Alfonso Thomas, Graeme Swann, Mark Wallace and Dean Cosker. Plus a few others who are not near the first team.

str
03-26-2009, 06:49 AM
Alfonso Thomas plays excellent for my Somerset . Great bowler . He bats in #3 position in first class in my team . and #8 in one day .

He is always in my first team .

aggvaibhav
03-26-2009, 06:49 AM
I have Piyush. I delayed him for about 6 years. Till then I was playing Harbhajan. Now he is 33 and having played 83 tests he has taken 540 wickets with a test century as well..

str
03-26-2009, 07:06 AM
Ashwin is another bowler .

he Bats is #5 position in my all bowlers and a wicket keeper team .

He scored 279 runs and took 21 wickets . My wicket keeper G Gambhir scored 481 runs .

Won the World Cup .

NOW I am thinking who is the "Man of the Tournament" ?

Auric Goldfinger
03-26-2009, 11:05 AM
Alfonso Thomas plays excellent for my Somerset . Great bowler . He bats in #3 position in first class in my team . and #8 in one day .

He is always in my first team .

He was a bit inconsistent for me with the ball last season but was quite reliable down the order.

I lost a couple of 50 over games at the start of third season due to the hole in my bowling attack. Ten doeschate and Dalrymple are classed as all rounders but are pretty poor bowlers - I find Dalrymple to be slightly better in the four day games. So I dropped Powell from the team and pick between Swann and Thomas (both of them are good enough to bat at 7 after my strong middle order).

The bowling attack has an excellent look to it now. Shantry and Harris are good bowlers both capable of match-winning performances. Cooray is an excellent spin bowler and Broad is proving to be very useful with bat and ball.

str
03-27-2009, 06:32 AM
Alfonso Thomas is an one change bowler for me . He bowls 4 over in his first spell . I bring him back after 34th over in one day . His second spell is dangerous . Try it . You will see . Sometimes he takes 6 wickets in his second spell .

Steely123
04-14-2009, 12:00 AM
I have found a few real dynamites whilst playing the game.

Samit Patel - Trained his bowling, now is a star all rounder, bats 3 gets over 1000 runs a season every year.
Ravi Bopara - trained his bowling, also now is a good all rounder, bats at 4 or opens gets regular OD 100's about 1000 Runs a season.
Rob Key - Scores quickly in OD's about 4-5 aggression to start, gets you off to a good start usually gets 50's at about 90-100 S/R
Michael Carberry - Great FC batsmen, gets runs but scores slowly sometimes.
Adam Shantry - 70-80 FC wickets a season usually gets snapped up by england, even scores runs in the lower order, he got 103 against Gloucestshire.
James Harris - Scores runs down the order (with training) yet to score a hundred, but 4 seasons in has scored 3-4 50's in the last 2 seasons. Gets 70-80 Wickets a season, Economical in OD.
Gareth Batty/Graham Swann - Used Them to open the bowling in OD matches (even though a spinner) and they takes early wickets and doesent go for many, get a few quick runs down the order.
Jamie Daylrymple - His batting is fantastic, can score at around 180-200 S/R with 7-8 Aggression. Great in OD's. Although his bowling is quite average but sometimes cherps in with a couple of wickets.
Tim Ambrose - Opened or at 4 or 5, always gets consistant runs, 1 season got 1600 runs with 6 100's and 5 50's.

Top Tip

Opening the bowling with a spinner when defending a total in a One Day match, works a treat. Usually get a few wickets and keep the run rate down to about 3-4 an over, although the bowler at the other end sometimes end up getting hit round the park.

Cyril Washbrook
04-14-2009, 04:58 AM
Agreed with most of the ones you've nominated there; generally, other people have also found them to be excellent players in ICC08.

that dude with the face
04-14-2009, 06:11 AM
I just started the 2021 and got this in a one day game and was like... awesome... gotta join up and show... It wowed me :P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v239/kc_law/domination.jpg

str
04-17-2009, 05:10 AM
My South Africa scored 456 against Bangladesh in an ODI .

G-Reb
04-22-2009, 02:07 AM
I am currently in the 2014 season with Middlesex. In my first season i managed to come last in all competitions and was subsequently relegated to Division 2. I took this opportunity to offload some players and bring in some youth, which worked to great effect. I finished 1st in D2 of the County Championship and the Pro 40. I won the 50 over comp and got to the semi's of the 20-20.

From here i have managed to win the County Championship every year, the 50 over comp 3 years (with a runners up in another), 3 20/20 wins and 3 pro 40 wins (a runners up only by run rate.).

I have also been able to unearth some Gems, with Billy Godleman playing for England with 47 test and 3541 runs at 41.17. Kabir Toor who has just dominated now playing for England with 14 matches 108 wickets at 14.53 and a youth i picked up early by the name of Wilbur Janson playing 35 tests with 186 wickets at 23.14.

I have also managed to pick up alot of great players including Thomas New, Charles Huckerby and James Harris.

Players that are still dominating from my original squad are Ed Smith, Owasis Shah, Ed Joyce, Tim Murtagh and Steve Finn. Quality young players i have picked up in the last 2 years include Mike Wilkinson, James Godwin, Raymond Quentin, James Bucknall and Jack Hughes.

In 2014 i have won all County Matches, into the qtr finals of the 50 over comp and yet to start the 20/20 and pro 40.

the greatest one
04-27-2009, 07:56 AM
well i am playing as india and in three season i won 17 draw 11 lost 0 in odi won 25 lost 11 tie 2 i simply cant lose test my batter are brilliant i normally score 500+ in 1st in

Imager36
04-29-2009, 05:45 PM
This any good?

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/912/wowean.jpg

Alright, it is only against the MCC, but there you go...

the greatest one
05-04-2009, 08:29 AM
i am playing as india and in season 2018 my recods are good i lost only 3 test no t so good in odi 100% in 4 t20won all my best score in test is 975 in odi 580/2 in odi vs bermuda gambhir score 303* in 162 balls

G-Reb
05-05-2009, 12:05 AM
Now into 2016 with Middlesex.

I have an amazing team that consists of 6 England players and my overseas play in Peter Siddle.
The England players are Billy Godleman, Christopher Huckerby, Kabir Toor, James Harris, James Hanlan and Wilbur Janson.
However my backup players to them are up to the standard and are extremly talented. I still have Ed Smtih, O Shah and Ed Joyce playing. With Tim Murtagh, Thomas New, Raymond Queintin and Steve Finn dominating.

I have won the CC 4 years in a row, the 2020 comp 3 years, and they other two comps i have won 5 years on the trot. I am still undefeated this year and looking to extend these streaks.

Sureshot
05-06-2009, 04:54 PM
Today I did what all good students do and took my laptop into college and played on it whilst I was "working". ;)

I actually won a match in the championship with Leicestershire, which was nice. 2 wins out of 9 means we are bottom of the table, though. The patched version is an improvement.

putters
05-13-2009, 02:14 AM
Hey all. I am captaining Someret in the County championship and have been having mixed success. I'm currently in the 2021-22 season. Out of interest I've found James Hildreth works great as the captain, and Michael Munday is the best spinner not playing Test cricket. I've got B. Head and J. Denly opening (and doing a kickarse job), Len Cullin at first drop (at age 33 he's scored over 15,000 career runs at an average of 51, and is an absolute rock. Quick bowlers have come and gone, nothing much to report there, but I do have one game in particular to relate if anyone's interested...

Having gone all the way in the 2011 and 2013, we slumped out of the top division and fell into relegation for several seasons. In 2019 we fought back to 1st division, where we came 7th in the following season just to stay in Div 1. Michael Munday, James Hildreth and Craig Kieswetter, the last 3 surviving original team members are all set for retirement in 2022, and they're playing like there's no tomorrow. It's the final game of the season, we've played 15, lost 2 and drawn 2, clearly in the lead by 40 points on the leaderboard.

Game 16 is against the 2nd team Glamorgan. They batted first and put on a solid 450-odd runs. We went in partway during the 2nd day and piled on 420 before being dismissed late in the 3rd day's play. Glamorgan went back in but by this stage the pitch had deteroriated into dust, and Michael Munday and Ben Best went to town snaring 6 and 4 wickets respectively. Glamorgan all out with an overall lead of 135 with a day's play up our sleeve. All too easy right? Wrong. Rain set in early on day 4 and restricted us to one session to make the runs neccessary to win.

Denly and Head both fell cheaply, and Cullin, Oliver and Kieswetter could put up little resistance. Hildreth and Best were in fine form though, cutting and driving like there's no tomorrow. Glamorgan changed tactics and brought their medium pacers on, and before we knew it there were 3 overs left and 29 runs to get. Thanks to a couple of big overs from Best, with 6 balls remaining, and Hildreth on strike, we needed 8 to win. Hildreth and Best exchange singles for the first 4 balls. Ball 5, Hildreth strikes it straight to a fielder, no run. 4 required from the last ball...

The bowler came in and dropped one a little short, Hildreth the retiring captain took one step back and smashed it into the boundary for 4 runs.

I tell you now if my housemate wasn't asleep I would have just about hit the roof. What a game!!!

str
05-26-2009, 06:53 PM
NO Cheating . 171 wickets


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themanatyourwindow
05-27-2009, 11:39 PM
This any good?

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/912/wowean.jpg

Alright, it is only against the MCC, but there you go...

lol there is no way you could have won that match! But nice going, good to get your guys in form!

My top score, playing only with England, is 934/4, which I got over two days, before going on to win by inns/325 runs. Couldn't believe it!

Melvin
06-15-2009, 10:23 AM
Just started a game with Glamorgan and things started great with wins in the county championship vs middlesex by 4 wickets and in the challenge cup vs Gloucester by 54 runs.

But I then lost vs Gloucester in the county championship and somerset in the challenge in which we play very bad. The batting was very bad.


Jamie Dalrymple has been the stand out player with some good batting and ok bowling. Jason Gillespie is the main underachiver with his bowling being weak compared to others but his batting has been very good for his postion :D

Can't wait to sign some decent players to improve the team as we are just not good enough.

killakerr
08-17-2009, 10:58 AM
I found that when playing for England you must NOT pick G. Onions and MUST pick G. Swann. Swann, takes plenty of wickets, he took two in his first over[=

Vijito
09-02-2009, 10:44 AM
well, i am actually very suprised at the way things have turned out in my game wiv sri lanka
hav som brilliant individuals but somehow ranked 8th in both test and odi
mendis has been consistent and he'z done relatively well but no-one else seems to hold down the second spinner spot when at home after murali retirement
jayasuriya also retired but sangakkara n jayawardene hav been fantastic
need a reversal of fortune starting at down under

Perocive73
10-19-2009, 05:34 PM
for god sake guys , i made this topic to say hello to agrees1ve not for you to make it a drama thread.
really this game did not change 1 at all ...

gaylechris
11-30-2009, 11:06 PM
am i doing ok ?

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