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A small thing but (playing on android) the option to take the second new ball comes up ahead of the notification of a wicket falling and also a bowler completing their quota in limited overs matches. It would make sense if the fall of wicket notification came up before all others because it can have a big impact on your next decision.
Also, playing in the mid-late 2020's, I notice that the AI has a huge bias towards playing allrounders over bowlers in limited overs but will pretty much never play an allrounder in a test match. Case in point the South Africa team (who I just played a series against) had allrounders down to #11 in both the ODI's and T20s. Yet in the test matches they had Lungi Ngidi batting at #8.
South Africa and Pakistan both produce an absolute plethora of top quality allrounders while poor old Australia produce next to none and often have a bowler at #7 in ODIs. I think this may be down to domestic player pool size?
The variability in the types of allrounders coming through has improved a lot too meaning some are very strong batsman and weaker bowlers and vice versa. Still have not yet managed to convert a bowler into one though, despite having Rashid Khan's batting technique improve about six times!
The AI seems to mostly use spinners at the death in limited overs matches.
On my last tour to England all the pitches had "average" wear and on my recent tour to Bangladesh all the pitches had "very good" wear. Also at the world cup in West Indies all of the pitches were "very good wear". None of the pitch conditions on any of the tours seem to vary much at all, although the weather does.
Also, playing in the mid-late 2020's, I notice that the AI has a huge bias towards playing allrounders over bowlers in limited overs but will pretty much never play an allrounder in a test match. Case in point the South Africa team (who I just played a series against) had allrounders down to #11 in both the ODI's and T20s. Yet in the test matches they had Lungi Ngidi batting at #8.
South Africa and Pakistan both produce an absolute plethora of top quality allrounders while poor old Australia produce next to none and often have a bowler at #7 in ODIs. I think this may be down to domestic player pool size?
The variability in the types of allrounders coming through has improved a lot too meaning some are very strong batsman and weaker bowlers and vice versa. Still have not yet managed to convert a bowler into one though, despite having Rashid Khan's batting technique improve about six times!
The AI seems to mostly use spinners at the death in limited overs matches.
On my last tour to England all the pitches had "average" wear and on my recent tour to Bangladesh all the pitches had "very good" wear. Also at the world cup in West Indies all of the pitches were "very good wear". None of the pitch conditions on any of the tours seem to vary much at all, although the weather does.
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