Hello all - First post!
First of all, as an intermediate cricket fan, both love the fun of the game and the learning its providing me for some of the more technical elements of the game, The one element that is impacting my enjoyment is my lack of success in the T20 mode.
I start with the caveat that I am not a cricket expert but when i play the game with the English First class series and the one day cup, I am able to get going fairly quickly and found the formats to offer a great balance of challenge and reward for me.
Sadly I can't say the same for the T20 format, i just don't get how to tackle it, I get thumped both in terms of bowling and batting every game against teams i know are poor in the T20 format. I've tried reading around these forums for tips and im running out of ideas, the following things below i do apply but i don't seem to get the results.
Generally, I try to bowl per ball rather than per over and mix in a lot of variation. I set me fielding aggression at either 1 or 2 and take it from there. I pick bowlers based on their economy and try to save a strike bowler for the end. Batting I play the first one or two overs per ball looking to get set at around 3 ore 4 aggression, lower the aggression if I'm ahead of the run rate in that over to get them set and move to six. I either play it wrong and don't set a commanding score or just get skittled. I've tried mixing the aggressions so i have one batter being more defensive so i always have a set batter when the strike man is out but this doesn't seem to get me results either.
I play as my local county who i watch quite a lot so i know i am playing the batters with the right aggression. I also play the bowlers i know work at T20 format but anecdotally I have spotted a slight mismatch in the bowlers the AI picks for T20 vs the ones I think should be picked. A good example is Stuart Broad who
Any ideas guys? This is my only bug-bear of an otherwise great game!
First of all, as an intermediate cricket fan, both love the fun of the game and the learning its providing me for some of the more technical elements of the game, The one element that is impacting my enjoyment is my lack of success in the T20 mode.
I start with the caveat that I am not a cricket expert but when i play the game with the English First class series and the one day cup, I am able to get going fairly quickly and found the formats to offer a great balance of challenge and reward for me.
Sadly I can't say the same for the T20 format, i just don't get how to tackle it, I get thumped both in terms of bowling and batting every game against teams i know are poor in the T20 format. I've tried reading around these forums for tips and im running out of ideas, the following things below i do apply but i don't seem to get the results.
Generally, I try to bowl per ball rather than per over and mix in a lot of variation. I set me fielding aggression at either 1 or 2 and take it from there. I pick bowlers based on their economy and try to save a strike bowler for the end. Batting I play the first one or two overs per ball looking to get set at around 3 ore 4 aggression, lower the aggression if I'm ahead of the run rate in that over to get them set and move to six. I either play it wrong and don't set a commanding score or just get skittled. I've tried mixing the aggressions so i have one batter being more defensive so i always have a set batter when the strike man is out but this doesn't seem to get me results either.
I play as my local county who i watch quite a lot so i know i am playing the batters with the right aggression. I also play the bowlers i know work at T20 format but anecdotally I have spotted a slight mismatch in the bowlers the AI picks for T20 vs the ones I think should be picked. A good example is Stuart Broad who
Any ideas guys? This is my only bug-bear of an otherwise great game!
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