Beta Testers Update Thread

[zimrahil]

This thread will be for Beta Testers of Ashes Cricket only to post any relevant updates they wish to share

Feedback on said updates can be made in the usual https://www.planetcricket.org/forums/threads/ashes-cricket-general-discussion.108736/ for everyone else.

Beta testers can/will of course comment in either thread as they deem suitable. Please do not post in this thread unless you are a beta tester otherwise your post will be deleted and you will be banned from posting in thread any further


NB - can I ask all Staff to delete any posts made by non Beta testers and ban that user from posting in this thread please


This is a trial to see if it works in producing a cohesive thread for members to get latest beta testing updates, if you don't like it then.....too bad

 

[Dutch]

Cool! Thanks Zim! Some things about Birmingham are good!

Anyway just to have something to post: I am now in the last day of this test: as you can see England batted massively to take the test to a last day with the Aussies needing 250 to win......I batted a time with Stoneman and with Malan and Bairstow he put on tons of runs although once the Partnership between Malan and Stoneman had reached 150 I simmed the game as I wanted to see what the fifth day pitch is like.

What I want to test is whether it is trickier to bat on a fifth day pitch or not.....this is obviously a good batting track but it should still cause the AI some problems....will it?


We shall see!

 

[Dutch]

Both Anderson and Broad are targeting the patches of wear at either end and getting some extra zip and a tiny bit off movement when they hit them..........could be an interesting days play!

 

[Dutch]

So 80 overs left in the day: Anderson gets the breakthrough: Bancroft driving uppishly to extra cover.....it is the bounce that is causing a bit of problems but the Aussie on top.....210 odd needed in 80 overs...England need to find wickets one feels.....Warner look ominous. Anderson and Broad bowling really tight.

 

[Dutch]

Game on? Woakes in to replace Broad, has a short leg in, back of length......Khawaja mistimes slightly trying to flick off his pads.......loops of the edge low to Ali under the helmet!

 

[Dutch]

So its lunch day five: Warner and Smith are just too solid and the pitch is a batters paradise....no way through. Couple of times that the bounce was tricky but part from that. One last effort from Broad and Anderson after lunch: perhaps some reverse swing?
Ali is disappointing: there is definitely a disbalance between Ai spinners and human spinners...having said that i have been using the standard controls for spinning: will give the classic controls a whirl after lunch!

 

[Dutch]

Jimmy!

 

[Dutch]

Oh it could have been so much better, Jimmy getting the ball to talk again......: possibly the most frustrating bug in the game! You take a nick, you take the catch, you desperately need it and feel you have earned it and the game carries on like nothing has happened.....you cant even appeal!

As it is it's......

 

[Dutch]

Hey Handscomb, hope you like plums mate!!!!!

Broady keeps the game alive! Aussies need 80 runs, England need six wickets, about 40 odd overs left in the day.....

 

[Dutch]

Oh my........would you believe it.....

 

[Dutch]

BOLLOCKS! It happened again: MArsch nicks through to Bairstow........nothing....feck fack fock fick &^%$$$^%&!!!!

 

[Dutch]

Hello.......

 

[Wealey]

Oddly enough... I never have this...

 

[Dutch]

Ooooh its all just a little too late but its a feckin cracker of a game!

 

[Dutch]

Its all over boyz...Cummins dispatches Broad for back to back boundaries and Aussie goes one up! At 1550 on the fifth day AI gets the runs it needs......respectful nods all round!