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Isura, this looks amazing. I can't believe how far you've taken this in the (what seems to me) brief period since I was lost on the forums. Looking forward to trying it out.

Plus our best seven bowlers are injured, five of our top seven are playing for their positions in the side (saved only by the poor form of their rivals) and our illustrious, record-breaking captain hobbled from the field today.

I've successfully edited my fix12.fxt file so that there's an Australia A tour of England in May, a Test series in Pakistan in August, the World T20 takes 2 weeks + finals, Sri Lanka visit Australia in November, the BBL takes place entirely during December, South Africa play a four test series...

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If you have a team that declares every innings, then what you say is true. India doesn't have that. If adding Ashwin to the side means you average 700 runs per match instead of 650, you're going to win more matches.

I don't get why people are ragging on Ashwin. He's bowled poorly in this series, sure, but the fact remains that he's got great fundamentals with both bat and ball. If he can bounce back and average ~35 with the bat and ~30 with the ball for his career then the likes of Pragyan Ojha (averages 15...

If you have Dropbox installed, it's in the Dropbox folder: Dropbox\Childish Things\International Cricket Captain 2012\saves. Otherwise, I think it's a similar folder in My Documents or Documents and Settings or something.

You might be editing the wrong file. Fix12.fxt is for games that include a domestic league (ie Aus/UK/India). If you're playing international games only, you should be editing int12.fxt. Does that help?

Correct, we're not talking about ODIs. Well spotted. But all over the world, and particularly in the last few years, it is not uncommon to see Steyn return figures of 1/100+ runs in a Test match innings. That gets balanced out by the occasional 4/40 and 5/56 to give him excellent bowling...

I've developed the excel workbook to the point where I can specify whatever set of matches I'd like for the year and have the FXT file for that year automatically generated - see attached for a version of int12.fxt where people only play Test matches all year round. It can only handle...

You'll need to start a new save file, I'm afraid. Every time you start a new year, the game loads the match fixtures from the relevant .fxt file into memory and doesn't look at the .fxt file thereafter. If you don't want to start a new save, you can still edit next year's .fxt file and have...

Why? Gladwell's distinction between choking and panicking never caught on - but even if it had it wouldn't matter. The point I made was "I think South Africa are inconsistent, not chokers". I'm not wrong about the inconsistency: Steyn is equally as likely to give you 2-90 as 3-34, and almost...

This is true: South Africa have all-time-great players but have frequently underperformed that billing both on this tour and in general (they might be undefeated away, but their home record isn't as impressive). I don't think it's a "choking" behaviour, either - their best players (eg Steyn)...

Still pretty gutted by Ponting's departure. Deep down I was probably hoping he'd smoke a double, un-retire, win in India and England and cap it off with a series of victorious farewell Tests at home. Not to be, sadly - but you can't script these things and that's why the magic moments (when they...

If Steyn, Morkel and Philander can string together 30-40 overs of their best then there's not much our batsmen can do about it. They might get lucky, as Clarke frequently did during his mammoth innings in Adelaide. But I'm not sure there's enough talent and technique in our top four to reliably...

Mitchell Starc, what a gun. Beautiful consistent action, great swing/bounce/angle weaponry and if he's averaging 85mph at 22 yo then you'd have to think he's a genuinely fast bowler once full grown. That said, I think we've only seen the "real" South Africa in this Test - and now we know how...

I know Mitchell Johnson has broken our hearts far too many times to forgive, but the idea of him and Starc both getting left-arm swing at the WACA is a tempting one, tbh. Just think: if Lyon can do this well without anyone creating rough, imagine how well he'd do with two left-armers in the side?

Thrilling finish. Huge credit to South Africa for fighting back from that first day, but also to the Australians for maintaining their intensity in the field over such a long period - there were so many almost-chances that the last day made for viewing almost as compelling as the first. Of...

Declaration is working exactly how Clarke might have hoped - forcing SA to make nervy starts before tea, after tea and again tomorrow morning. I'd say it's more the nervy play than super bowling that's taking these wickets. They're clapping Siddle in, now. Love it.

Tough Test for Wade - not many runs, fluffed stumpings, etc. He'll get plenty more chances, but he won't want to have too many more games like this regardless.