Feature Requests

[Long Hop]

Stop generated players overtaking real life youngsters in the pecking order at counties and england level. It can get quite annoying when you have a good prospect in real life when in the game he is not used and fake players are picked instead.

Very much this- this is my major irritation with ICC at the moment, you get fake players inside the national teams in the first 18 months. Okay, so Australia occasionally do this, but even a prodigy like Root or Cook takes 4-5 years to go from FC to Test debut, not the moment they're picked.

As someone else said, make them 17-18 when they come onto the game and sort potential ability out so that they develop rather than instantly averaging 50+ as virtually nobody does this- I can think of Shiv Thakor and that's about it at present.

Separately, can we remove the nation element from all time great games? I want to play a combined Asia XI vs Ashes XI game that was mentioned on TMS during the Champion's Trophy: I don't think this feature would take as long as many of the others mentioned, just make all those all-time-great players into one list rather than 10 nation separated ones.

[Alrounder80]

Sometimes in real life though players emerge and get into the test team really quickly. Agar, de Lange and Cummins had hardly played any first class matches for example before their respective call ups. The solution might be to prevent the AI selecting regens until they had played x (maybe 20?) first class games? An exception would have to be made for Agar of course!

But if we're talking about England, effectively all players that get into the England test side (especially in recent times) have proper FC experience and even have to prove themselves for the England Lions before getting selected. I don't think any young prodigy would be able to get into the England test side until he's play FC cricket for about 2 years and done well. I think the strength of England's regens really need to be toned down because that, along with Aus domestic career, are the proper domestic careers we can have. In fact, toning down all regens would be great and boost the youngsters!

[Graham_5000]

Yep - regens definitely need to be toned down a bit. I hate the way that within a year the England international team will have at least two 'fake' players.

Sometimes in real life though players emerge and get into the test team really quickly. Agar, de Lange and Cummins had hardly played any first class matches for example before their respective call ups. The solution might be to prevent the AI selecting regens until they had played x (maybe 20?) first class games? An exception would have to be made for Agar of course!

[Graham_5000]

- the ability to bring the keeper up to medium pacers
- some preferences to bowlers such as prefers to bowl aggresively or prefers to bowl outside off stump.

I would prefer for bowling attributes to be hidden. Aggressive vs defensive bowling (and accuracy) are already simulated. I'm not sure how you would determine whether a bowler prefers bowling outside off or down leg side - I wouldn't say bowlers generally have a preference, although I notice Mitchell Johnson seems to like bowling down leg side!

[SHMG]

I've asked for this feature earlier that during the tours when someone is injured why dont (in game) they ask us for some replacement player? rather we have to carry the same injured throughout that tour without any replaced plus there should be some contract list each other of international players so that one should know when some players are retiring at end of their contract or is not re-newing

[Steely123]

- the ability to bring the keeper up to medium pacers
- some preferences to bowlers such as prefers to bowl aggresively or prefers to bowl outside off stump.

[chaturaemi]

Can u allow us to make a world XI and Asia XI squad in 2 player Game?

Please allow same country vs Same Country in 2 player game

Please allow us to use saved international team on 2 player game

[Lanky]

More interaction with the players maybe? Have a few characteristics for them to make it feel more realistic and they're not just a name.

Also more info for the bowler, like we have the batsmans preferences.

Death bowler, New Ball bowler, has lots of variations, mystery spinner etc.

[dhruv_tandel]

There are few new features i would like to see are:

1) Before every match, we see both teams lineup...i would like an feature where it will be notified (c) and (wk) so we will know who is the captain and wicket keeper of opposition team.

2) Would like to see the Ground details in Itinerary of every series...Thus we will know which match we will be playing on which ground.

3) Would like to see notifications when a batsmen scores 50 or 100 and henceforth, same with the bowlers when they get 5 wickets or more in a match...

4) When a players reach a milestone in their career for eg: if a batsmen scores 1000 runs or a bowler gets 50 or 100 wickets we should get notification that a player has achieved certain milestones.

5) In ICC 2012 after playing 2-3 seasons of international games found that in each season team plays only 3-5 series whereas in real they play many series and hardly 15 days gap between series...so would like to see more series in every seasons of International career.

6) A small feature like showing bowling speeds of a bowler in a match.

7) Man of the series award after every series will be a good feature too.

8) I would like to see one important feature is in current editions we are able to see only bowlers stamina...how about if we are able to see the stamina of all the team members, this will bring much more realism to the game...

for eg in a test match if a player is very tired we can substitute him for 2-3 overs with 12th man or so, like its done in real and also if a batsmen is playing a long innings it will effect him..its very much realistic.

[DaveK93]

Allow for the option of all squads starting off with no players and then running an American style draft.
That way, you'd feel like the team is truly your own from the start.

That'd be a great addition, would be interesting to see who each person signed as well!

[GrahamB]

Allow for the option of all squads starting off with no players and then running an American style draft.
That way, you'd feel like the team is truly your own from the start.

[Imager36]

Yep - regens definitely need to be toned down a bit. I hate the way that within a year the England international team will have at least two 'fake' players.

As much as anything, they need to come into the game younger (17/18) and grow into the level they are now by 23. That should help ease the issues.

[Hughesy]

Stop generated players overtaking real life youngsters in the pecking order at counties and england level. It can get quite annoying when you have a good prospect in real life when in the game he is not used and fake players are picked instead.

More leagues.

2nd XI's and international A teams.

Yep - regens definitely need to be toned down a bit. I hate the way that within a year the England international team will have at least two 'fake' players.

[foreveryyoung]

Stop generated players overtaking real life youngsters in the pecking order at counties and england level. It can get quite annoying when you have a good prospect in real life when in the game he is not used and fake players are picked instead.

More leagues.

2nd XI's and international A teams.

[Imager36]

* Allow all the leagues to be simulated (as opposed to being generated). What I mean here is the ability to look at player, team and competition statistics and scorecards for the Aussie or Indian domestic seasons even when playing in the English one.

That's big for me, and would lead on to not having to select 'English/Australian/Indian/International Career' before, and just picking any of the teams and formats. Being able to change team through countries would be an interesting experience, and for me it would not be worth implementing changing teams unless this was available.