Hi folks,
First post here. Hoping there could be some advice. My fave timewaster is a relatively quick 5 match ODI tournament, usually Australia v India, is it is most challenging. Love the game, and love the new interface for the 2014 edition.
My frustration lies with say, the final five overs of a run chase (when I'm batting second). You can have a Dave Warner, for example, running along at over a run a ball, and with five to get in the last over, can just block four of the balls and you lose by two runs. Or a Jason Faulkner, with a strike rate of 112 within the game in the ODI format, scoring 3 from 20 even with almost max power. Even talented batters in the tail just can't score at a realistic and frequent rate.
I'm not expecting it to resemble IRL, it's just very frustrating to time your run chase to a realistic target in the last 20 balls, and frequently fall short due to a sometimes really weird match engine. A maiden over in the 49th over is pretty frustrating with close to fullpower on two established batsmen. There just doesn't seem to be any more urgency in the last few overs than their is in the first. Does that make sense?
Any tips from other players on how they approach an ODI chase?
First post here. Hoping there could be some advice. My fave timewaster is a relatively quick 5 match ODI tournament, usually Australia v India, is it is most challenging. Love the game, and love the new interface for the 2014 edition.
My frustration lies with say, the final five overs of a run chase (when I'm batting second). You can have a Dave Warner, for example, running along at over a run a ball, and with five to get in the last over, can just block four of the balls and you lose by two runs. Or a Jason Faulkner, with a strike rate of 112 within the game in the ODI format, scoring 3 from 20 even with almost max power. Even talented batters in the tail just can't score at a realistic and frequent rate.
I'm not expecting it to resemble IRL, it's just very frustrating to time your run chase to a realistic target in the last 20 balls, and frequently fall short due to a sometimes really weird match engine. A maiden over in the 49th over is pretty frustrating with close to fullpower on two established batsmen. There just doesn't seem to be any more urgency in the last few overs than their is in the first. Does that make sense?
Any tips from other players on how they approach an ODI chase?
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