However if you decide to do that al the time, you will very quickly find the batsman taking a step forward and sending your ball hurtling over the boundary for six.ĭuring my playtime I’ve found it best to check what stats your bowler has and then attempt to force the batsman into a mistake by altering the pitch and speed of the ball. You also need to decide the length of the ball that is going to be bowled and the speed that you are going to be aiming for. My preference when yelling at the Proteas during the last over of a game is to bowl a fast yorker (a ball that bounces right at the foot of the batsman) as when I used to play that was one of the most difficult to bat against.

When pace bowling you need to select one of 7 different bowling types which decide how the ball will swing before or after hitting the pitch. Bowlingīowling is broken down into 2 distinct options: you are either a pace bowler or a spin bowler. However like most sports it’s far more complicated than that. You get one player who hurls the ball at another player and that player then needs to hit it as hard as they can and score runs. At first look Cricket is the most simplistic sport around.

One of the most difficult parts of Cricket to replicate is the intricacy of the game. While Cricket has a huge following in Asia and a few of the old English colonies it is practically non-existent in most of the Western world and as such we as fans of both Cricket and gaming have been starved of action for many years. The team from Big Ant gave us a respite back in 2014 with their well-received Don Bradman 14, ( check our review here) and now they have followed that up with Don Bradman 17.

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