2009 Features Requests

[meakers]

i would like to see more media preassure on out of form players or some of the golden oldies i.e botham and gower expressing their opinion

[DonaldC]

A few suggestions: -

1. The ability to tell your bowlers to bowl a yorker or bouncer
2. The ability to tell batsman to look to 'milk it' i.e. looking for 1s and 2s
3. Add the pace attribute to pitches, e.g. in India they are likely to be slow, in Australia more likely to be quick, bouncy pitches
4. More of a bug - the short ball seems to be really easy to play. You never see steepling bounce from a back-of-a-length ball that takes the splice in ICC. A key for RF bowlers

[Themer]

That's not unusual

Thats very unusual, England have gone through a few in the past but 3 in 3 matches is just silly.

[Sureshot]

Well the real England cricket team once had a different captain for each match in a Test series.

Out of interest, was their mitigating circumstances like an injury?

[Themer]

No two of them were my players both fully fit and in form in FC matches and the other who played the last match was fit throughout the series. I feel that the International teams should be alot more consistant in there selection. Its just odd when they have people centrally contracted then never play them. They should pick people who are centrally contracted alot more. In fact the whole central contract thing should be rejigged so we can pick them if in charge of the international team and have the option to rest them from domestic matches.

[Packer Al]

Squad Strengthening/More Financial Options

I think this has been mentioned to a lesser extent before but I would support being able to improve your squad mid-season through player purchasing/loan players deals etc

I really enjoy taking the least financially viable teams and trying to upgrade them each season but the financials at present simply don't seem to allow this as extra funds are totally results-based - an endless doubly-whammy - poor team, poor results, struggles to fund a minimum 18 squad except by youngsters who can't perform in the short-term

I would like a bit more flexibility to raise funds to allow squad improvement - perhaps by raising loans, approaching the Board, fund-raising games against for example old -internationals, charity games with a percentage take, sponsorship deals, merchandising, TV rights (not that anyone would watch my teams), property sales, kick-backs for players sold to other Clubs (legal only of course)

[Bowled_Him]

I would love to see a more fluid contract/transfer system. Instead of it all happening in a blobk at the end of the season, i would love to be able to manage my sqaud during the season. For instance buying one overseas players for the start of the season then a different one for 20/20

[jackchafer]

Well i have knicked a few off poeple but hear we go.

Vice captain-It sounds fantastic because in real life the vice captain will come up to you and make a surrgestion of who should bowl ect.

Bowlers style: We get the very basic like LFM, RF. But flintoff can swing the ball but it dosen't show on the game. It dosen't tell us these things.

Suggestions:If you the captain poeple are going to come to you in the dressing room and mabye give you a little word and ask if he can open the bowling and why mabye they should have that.

Media: After a game or a squad sletion mabye you should have newspapers telling there views if it was a risky descion or not.

real life: You can pick the captain but the captain never stands down you can pick him forever untill he retires mabye once in a while you should have a captain leave his post.

Commentry:get better commentry it's rubbish why don't you have the sky sports commentaters and have intavels like they do like every 30 min like they do in real life.

Shot: Have shots that are actually shots not a swipe for the ball. real shots you can see clearly

People: the run outs are so frustrating because in real life they player would have pick the ball up but no he has to spend his time doing some wierd sit that wastes time when you could of ran them out.

Team talks: At innigns breaks or tea or lunch you can give the team a real talking to if they have played rubbish or praise them if they have played well.

Commentaters again: If you are going to take my opinion on the commentators and make it better could you please make them better and funny and exciting. Like David loyd taking hte micheal out of bothem or some thing like that.

High Motion and Hawkeye: Make the technology better not so that you can only see they Hawkeye in one posiotion.

well these are just my opinions on what you should do please get back to this and tell me what you think!!

[Dark_Horse]

Don't want to sound stupid

The reason why management games are so great to me is because it is fantasy in sense....where will I ever get the chances to manage a a county side of an international side? The answer is never. This game should make you feel like you really are a manager.


And sorry to say...the main reason why I'd like to have an editor...and don't think I'm a loser, but I'd love to create myself in the game too....be great to live that dream through a game....and this game inparticular....

If someone would edit me into the game....then I won't need an editor...lol.....why not give curtain people an editor....like start a group...that edit player stats so that they are correct and only they can edit...this still improves the stats and even they can create scenarios that players can play....create players for the players....blah...blah...blah...

I just want to beable to enjoy the entire fantasy feeling and not just get a piece of the cake.....this is what makes other management games in other genres so great....the feeling that it might be real....and that ur controling a team from your remote location....that alex furganson is just the face on tv and ur the puppet master

[acook]

couldn't agree more.

[travdaddy]

The international schedule needs to be altered. It gets boring and predictable, the only thing to look forward to is the world cup ech four years. It would be awesome to add more tournaments like the 2020 cup, champions trophy and smaller schedules like chappell - haddlee series etc.
Also give the player a warning when players are thinking of retiring so you can prepare with youth players.
I think rain should be a factor in ODI games....no matter what people think it is a major factor in the game of cricket, it would add another dimension to the game if a 5 match ODI series had 3 games washed out.
Also it would be cool if players statistics were kept even after they retired...so records could be kept better.
i think thats it...
still a great game though...i buy new games, but always seem to make my way back to ICC,

[Manickam]

Creating a player of yourself is really good. Your get to enjoy the game more.

[Myrmecophaga]

When batting, you should be allowed to choose the aggressive shots a batsman will play. Then link that to the training nets, where you can train them to play individual shots.

Linking to this, you should be able to get some idea of how well a batsman plays each shot, a sort of equivalent to seeing them in the nets.

A similar thing with bowling, saying which variations a bowler should use, and practising specific variations.

[acook]

More player interaction at the end of a days play/game for example if a batter has not gone on yet again to convert a start there could be an option where you can have a word with him about it and maybe the next time he gets 30 he goes on to get a big score. At lunch you could tell your team to keep the pressure on the batters for the next session. Or tell them to try to get a couple of quick wickets before the end of the day if you've bowled out or declared with an hour to go in the day.

Also why dont keepers ever wear a helmet standing up to the stumps????

Seperate screens should be added for your selection of county championship, one day, t20 and pro40 teams. This would make it so much easier and simpler for thoose who have differnt teams for differnt forms of the game.

[qpeedore]

I love the idea of interacting with your team during the breaks. Even between matches you could have a "talk" option where you could see what's bugging individual players (too much workload, not able to score runs/take wickets, stuff like that).

Maybe a sort of morale system would help for that, where you would praise players who do well or try to help out players who do badly.

It would be great if you get a little notice from the players themselves concerning their own performances.

Examples:

- A lower order batsman who makes good scores and remains not out for a few innings in a row could ask to be promoted up the order so that he could convert more scores to centuries for the team. (Think Shivnarine Chanderpaul in real life and all the West Indian commentators saying that he should be pushed up the order since over the last year he's had a handful of 50-99 scores not out.)

- A batsman who's not having a good run of form could ask to be dropped down the order so he could face the older ball and play himself in easier.

- Bowlers would say that they are being underused or overused, according to how they perform.

There's an option for batsmen to keep the strike, if they're batting with the tail, for example. An option when you're bowling to automatically set fields so that you try to keep the tailender on strike would be great. If the established batsman is on strike at the start of the over you would give away the singles but with two balls to go you close the field in. Even if it can't be implemented when you're bowling...if it could be done when you're batting it would add a challenge to the game. Like if the game recognises that the established batsman is trying to keep the strike then it would set the field accordingly.

If a bowler is leaking runs an option to encourage him would be good. Or even talk to him...he may say that he's having an off day, that the field is set wrong for how he's bowling, that he needs a break...things along those lines.

After a chance which is given not out (of course this all depends on what level you set your replays at...could be the end of the over if you have your replays on low), there could be a button that you press to have the batsmen talk to each other. Maybe have it near where the match analysis button is currently.

Of course these ideas may seem a little TOO nitpicky to make it into the game...but at least they're up for consideration now.

EDIT: Playing the game now and I just noticed that players who get hit and retire hurt almost always have to be out for a matter of weeks. Would a few variables be added to this so that some injuries are minor and only require a few days instead of weeks?