Cricket Captain 2024 - Wishlist of Changes

[Dolphins]

I'd love to see bowlers actually spread out. Far too often there's only 5 bowlers used in white ball matches (& 4 in the red ball) when it's now the norm to use at least 6 bowlers bowling a good chunk of the overs rather than just 5 x 10.

It'd also be nice when simming a match if the ai was to use your bowler rather than ignoring him if their bowling quality isn't good enough. I've seen keepers bowl ahead of the picked bowler as they'll have a higher rating.

I have a feeling it might be too late to ask for it this year, but I'd love to see comps like the Irish and Zimbabwe Domestic scenes added. The players are already all there and it would be a nice change to be only able to pick unheard players as overseas like what happens in real life. Cricketeurope also keeps up to date with the Irish scene such as squads being named with new names in so it could always be kept up to date.

Stamina should all be 100% at the start of the season rather than 50% or less. Really not helpful when you're playing a test series starting on the 2nd of April and all your players are half-fit despite last playing a week ago, while the cpu is seemingly at full health.

Dual nationalities is a big thing I'd like to see also. It'd be very helpful in making sure players like Cameron Gannon, Ian Holland, Daniel Doram, Max O'Dowd, Steven Taylor and many more can still play for their international sides without counting as overseas players for their domestic sides. Currently many of them have to either count as overseas players in CC or as English/Australian players like Ian Holland, Cam Steel and Gannon. It'd also be helpful for those who are eligble for both such as Ben Curran. It could even be down as Triple nationalities which would also help in the case of some players such as Andri Berenger and quite a few others such as Ian Holland, Cameron Steel, Michael Booth etc. Could also be expanded in future years to where a full member side can try and convince the player to join them if they're already playing internationally for a associate side, and if they haven't played internationally yet, they can be switch allegiances like Charlie Tear (Scotland U19, England U19, Scotland) or Tazeem Ali (Netherlands U19, England U19)

There's also quite a few things I'd like to see but I'll save that for next year, I would like more international sides added (as well as being able to play with them on tournament and series mode), especially those who have played in World Cup Qualifiers (so those such as Nigeria, Jersey etc). It'd help add to the game so much. Jersey players have also oddly never been added to the game even when they've played domestic cricket, such as Ben Ward (for Boland and Cape Cobras) and Nick Greenwood (Wellington and Lancashire's Academy). I especially find it strange that Greenwood hasn't been added all these years despite playing for them for a few years now and being a regular in all formats. It really kills the realism for me to not have a actual player in the game due to being a regular.

Would love to see more domestic systems .
I did read somewhere on Facebook or X that there are currently problems with that
Irish domestic system they did play last in 2019? first class game so not worth to add ?
Zimbabwe they had a English domestic team play in their t20 competition so that would make it difficult in the game to make it work . But maybe this year if the domestic system is right again they can add it !!

Associate Teams needs to be added so that we can play qualification rounds and so one and become better there are more of enough information these days to add more international teams into the game

[Dolphins]

[QUOTE=Salman;n82327]Specific Player Career mode
A career mode game. Where we can select a specific player from any nations and play domestics or international matches if he gets selected by performances.
Trust me This mode will bring another level in the game.
How it will work:
So you select a player from any clubs and play domestic matches and tournaments.You only bat or bowl your player rest gets simulated.
You wouldn't need to control a whole team for a match and the game will be more enjoyable and more fast.
It will be very time saving and enjoyable as you wouldn't need to select the squads for




Dont agree !! Dont do that please !!!! There are other games for that !

[Dolphins]

Every year there is a wishlist thread for the next edition. Drop your unrealistic pipedreams, minor tweaks and that one feature that was included over a decade ago and you can't believe hasn't been included since.

The Unrealistic

Women's Cricket
I think women's cricket has been one of the most talked about features over the last few editions. A World Cup, Ashes or WPL in the tournament mode would be a good start.

New Animations
The reverse sweep was an unexpected addition this year. The scoop could be added this year since it has become an almost textbook shot over the past few years. Maybe a diving animation for batsmen, a new catch animation for fielders or a bowler raising the ball for a 5fa?

Custom Tournaments
The only tournaments available are current editions of international tournaments. It would be great to have custom T20 comps and World Cups with custom teams.

Pitch Changes
Pitches seem very static at the moment. Graphically, they all look the same and they all play the same. Yes, you can pick a batter, seamer or spinner-friendly wicket but by day five, they end up the same anyway. I'd love to see grassy pitches, pitches that flatten out, pitches affected by humid/rainy conditions, etc.

Batting Gameplay
Batting has one adjustable slider and no strategy at the moment. Once a batsman is settled, you just hit autoplay until it's time to bowl, where you can change your line/length, customise fielders, rotate bowlers, and change aggression. I've previously mentioned a separate slider for running, which would give limited-over formats realistic options but toggles such as looking for gaps, leaving anything outside off, running two on weaker fielders' throws, etc. These additional strategies could be in a similar menu to the change bowler or change field menu.

Less Unrealistic Changes

Domestic ATG
At the moment you can pick ATG teams based on international teams. If you want a mixed team, you have a World XI pool of every single player in the CC database. This makes picking ATG teams based on domestic teams, especially T20 comps, very tedious and impossible to do without external programs. The workings for this are already there as I can filter the World XI database by English teams but not any other country. I'd love to create teams for domestic T20 teams and other domestic comps.

Drinks Breaks
There are a lot of minor features missing from CC that would add a lot to realism. The one that could have the biggest effect on gameplay is a drinks break. At the moment, CC is unbalanced in favour of batsmen. Massive scores can be accumulated with ease. A drinks break in the middle of a session/innings could recover stamina for bowlers and reduce settled-ness for batsmen similar to a session break. It's not uncommon to see a big partnership broken after a drinks break in real life.

Other Realism Additions
- mid-over lunch break when a wicket falls
- opposition nightwatchmen
-showing partnership milestones similar to individual milestones
- more variety in stadiums
- international players not flying home to play a four-day match in between an away Test and ODI series and somehow playing two matches at the same time
- international contracts are given out in international saves. This can mean they maintain extra training in the long gaps between series and ensure those players have a priority of being fit while playing in their domestic comp. My ODI squad should be able to bowl more than three overs in a row before getting injured since they used all of their stamina playing in the BBL.
- auctions for those comps that have them
- use existing players in PM XI and similar teams
- offer a draw handshake in the final session
- tour matches, intraclub matches, etc. for away tours to regain form
- target score for bonus points in related comps, similar to target score for D/L.

More Challenging Difficulty
While normal difficulty can start out challenging depending on what team you choose, it becomes easier as you build a strong squad and gain form. A higher level of difficulty would be a nice change of pace to constantly winning every series.

Simulate Innings
You can simulate a whole match but sometimes it would be nice to just simulate through to the next innings.

Database filters
I'll keep asking for adjustable filters until it finally happens. I'd like the option to see the best spinners available without having to scroll down the bottom of a massive list when sorting by bowling style and then wading through part-timers. Or just want somewhat recent results such as most runs in England in the last 5 years.

Auto 2nd XI
Make all unselected members of your domestic team play 2nd XI with one click rather than going through 15 players and adding the to the 2XI individually

Other Database Additions
The information available to domestic saves is available to international saves:
- End-of-year summary for international careers. Leading run scorers, etc for both your team and worldwide.
- Career summary that includes how many trophies you win, win/loss ratios against teams, total wins etc.
- Retirement announcements for international players.

World Cup Stats
World Cup and WTC stats and records, including runs, wickets, title wins, etc.
Tournament-specific career records such as looking at most runs in the BBL or most wickets taken in the IPL.
Expand selection of recorded stats such as 200s, 300s, hattricks, run outs, 4-wicket hauls (for T20s)
Total 4s and 6s count as well as %
Records for most international wickets/runs in a calendar year (domestic teams have this feature)
Batting stats filtered by batting position

Retirement Announcement
A heads-up would also be nice to have when players are going to retire too. A message on the contract screen along the lines of "S Boland has indicated they are considering retirement" would be a huge help in giving you the chance to be proactive and find a replacement in your squad. They wouldn't have to then retire but you know it's coming in the next few years and have the chance to train up a rookie or sign an established replacement. Especially when you get the shock retirement of one of your star players in their early 30s.


Actually Realistic Additions

Bazball
Re-tweak Bazball aggression. I think Bazball in its hyped-up form from 12 months ago is over. Individual players can be aggressive but no one mentions Bazball when Marsh and Head are scoring faster than Duckett and Stokes.

Named Grounds
Have the name on the ground somewhere on the scorecard.

Alternate ODI /T20 Kits
A lot of international teams have different kits for home/away/ODI/T20I matches. It'd be nice to see them used.

Do I expect any of these changes? Not really. Would I appreciate it if any changes (listed or otherwise) were included? Absolutely.

Womens cricket is long time overdue. Atleast get just the international teams in .
Custom tournaments would be great since there are so many T20 comps around the world

I think the problem with that domestic ATG is with South Africa the team names and provinces changed so much since over the years it will be difficult.

I dont want that Auto 2nd XI to be automatically on because maybe there must a setting that says automatically play the rest 2nd XI or not ?

The retirement announcement must be done . I hate it when a player just go missing into retirement or retire the end of the seasn without knowing.

The name grounds are all ready in on the scorecard

[Sureshot]

Making an ATG team for domestic is currently impossible for non-English sides. When you filter by team, it only comes up with English teams even when you're trying to make an ATG Australia vs India game.

We've changed this in the squad selection screens in the latest version that is live on Steam and Android. I've had a go with it and it looks like it's working well.

[binga58]

Steam Workshop support, given the lack of editor

[Sureshot]

Making an ATG team for domestic is currently impossible for non-English sides. When you filter by team, it only comes up with English teams even when you're trying to make an ATG Australia vs India game.

We're looking at this for a future update, won't be in the next patch which will be out this week.

[Wilted]

You have to do the research. Something I enjoy to get a WA v Middlesex contest for the 1970s I had to include A.Connolly (Aust), W. Daniel (WI) & V. van der Bijl (SA) so used Aust v World XI data bases.

Yeah external databases are a must for international teams, especially those with imports. I just want to filter by teams to make selecting the squads easier rather than having to individually search 26 names for one match.

[Trevfromsussex&Oz]

Making an ATG team for domestic is currently impossible for non-English sides. When you filter by team, it only comes up with English teams even when you're trying to make an ATG Australia vs India game.

You have to do the research. Something I enjoy to get a WA v Middlesex contest for the 1970s I had to include A.Connolly (Aust), W. Daniel (WI) & V. van der Bijl (SA) so used Aust v World XI data bases.

[Wilted]

Non-National ATG XIs. Too hard because so many ATGs played for more than one team - A few examples - D. Bradman NSW & SA, G. Pollock Eastern Province & Transvaal, V. Mankad West India, Nawanagar, Gujarat, Bengal, Bombay and a few others. Bob Willis Surrey & Warwicks.

Making an ATG team for domestic is currently impossible for non-English sides. When you filter by team, it only comes up with English teams even when you're trying to make an ATG Australia vs India game.

[Hugh_Jars]

I'd like to be able to watch an entire game play out automatically in 3D, with a pause button if I have to leave the computer for a while.
Similar to how you can watch your games play out in 3D in other sports management games.

This would be awesome. An auto-play feature which also manages the game (selects bowlers and fields) and lets you jump in to watch/take over.

[Hugh_Jars]

Id love to see the ability to sim to the outcome of a match mid-game. For example, if you're getting absolutely pummeled you can sim to the end. Id also LOVE to see the ability to sim a match session by session, or to the next wicket, and enter it during a break. Similar to the Big Ant games. I'm time poor and sim most my games because its just too tedious and time consuming playing every game. But being able to enter and leave a match whenever you want would be a game changer for me.

Id also like to see empty grounds for first class matches rather than packed stadiums.

[Trevfromsussex&Oz]

Non-National ATG XIs. Too hard because so many ATGs played for more than one team - A few examples - D. Bradman NSW & SA, G. Pollock Eastern Province & Transvaal, V. Mankad West India, Nawanagar, Gujarat, Bengal, Bombay and a few others. Bob Willis Surrey & Warwicks.

[CardboardBox]

I think the most important thing that they can do for any upcoming game is to improve team selection and particularly bowler rotation. This is the single worst thing about the game, I'm sick of bowlers being picked for their bowling, either bowling no overs or only a couple in a first-class game because they are rated below the other bowlers. Similarly, seamers automatically bowling the first 15 overs of a new ball leading to ridiculously long spells for bowlers and sometimes batsman who have never bowled, getting overs simply because they bowl medium pace. Team selection should dictate that balanced squads are selected, dependent on the conditions and it should not just follow some absurd direction like simply picking 7 batsmen, including a keeper and 4 bowlers. I'm sure it's a very complex process, but all things associated with this area are absolutely worth the time and energy. Similarly, it would be great if seamers could be separated in some way so that bowlers who never take the new ball, i.e. Neil Wagner from previous editions, aren't the leading new ball bowlers for their country. If a player is a handy bowler, they should get overs, rather than someone else bowling a ridiculous number of overs. Perhaps an additional layer to bowler fatigue could be dependent on what they've already bowled rather than just in that spell, with it regenerating perfectly every time.

Also, while a separate ATG game is not a bad idea, I continue to make the claim that the fantasy cricket is not a valuable addition to the game without a 2 player mode, unless the above is fixed and made incredibly realistic.

[GrahamB]

I'd like to be able to watch an entire game play out automatically in 3D, with a pause button if I have to leave the computer for a while.
Similar to how you can watch your games play out in 3D in other sports management games.

[Trevfromsussex&Oz]

Drinks Break - I remember from the 1980s either Hong Kong or Malaysian TV had adds on while an animation of a drinks cart crawled across the screen. At the moment we are restricted to 15 overs/hour, 90/day. Why not give the chance to speed up the over-rate? I remember Ian Chappell (Aust) and Steve Fleming (NZ) both unsettling opponents that way.