Feilding problem, please help

[plunky8724]

At risk of sounding a little stupid how do you catch? I cant find any real instruction except something to do with the right stick does it. do you press it in? flick it a certain way? and is there any timing involved?

Help and advice is apprieciated

 

[Storer11]

Flick it in the direction of the ball, I think.

 

[TripleM]

I wondered the same thing.

 

[cricket_online]

Aren't there any tutorials in the game which teach basics about batting, bowling, fielding and catching?

 

[MattW]

There are, but I'd suggest they could be labelled more clearly instead of being randomly in match practice, perhaps even the game should take you to them after you've decided if you want the updated teams.

 

[theodom101]

Try holding the stick in the direction the ball is coming from. Not sure about timing though

 

[plunky8724]

Aren't there any tutorials in the game which teach basics about batting, bowling, fielding and catching?

I found the tutorials for batting and bowling easy enough but i couldn't find any fielding help, the booklet doesn't even explain it well.

I'll try some of things you guys have suggested, thanks for the help

 

[savvart]

Nothing suggested here works in semi manual fielding. They just drop 80% of chances, even easy ones, WHY...????

 

[slicksilver]

Nothing suggested here works in semi manual fielding. They just drop 80% of chances, even easy ones, WHY...????

Yes sucks. I have the same issue too. How do you NOT drop catches?

 

[CaptainOZ]

I thought that to catch the ball, you click in R3.

 

[Biggs]

In semi-assisted fielding you simply push the right D-Pad up and hold it there, while you're standing in the little white-circle where the ball is landing. Simple.

No desire to field manually, semi-assisted is great, you can still move your player around and make him sprint/run but... again... their speeds need to be turned down and/or skills reduced, because I'm diving/catching everything.

Also, pro-tip... hold the L1 button (I think? Or R1... one of those two) when you "reach" (read run-over) the ball near the boundary to tap it back from the rope. Takes a bit of practice, but works a treat on semi-assisted, usually stops a boundary, practice by doing it when you just "normally" field a ball to get it right.

 

[CaptainOZ]

Oh, so that's what Tap-back means! I thought it was to get back into the crease after a wild swing so that you don't get stumped...

 

[Biggs]

...Haha, no that's the O button on the PS controller. Embrace that button... press it often.

 

[Mr Snrub]

In semi-assisted fielding you simply push the right D-Pad up and hold it there, while you're standing in the little white-circle where the ball is landing. Simple.

No desire to field manually, semi-assisted is great, you can still move your player around and make him sprint/run but... again... their speeds need to be turned down and/or skills reduced, because I'm diving/catching everything.

Also, pro-tip... hold the L1 button (I think? Or R1... one of those two) when you "reach" (read run-over) the ball near the boundary to tap it back from the rope. Takes a bit of practice, but works a treat on semi-assisted, usually stops a boundary, practice by doing it when you just "normally" field a ball to get it right.

Yep, discovered the fielding catching was up by process of elimination. I'm not sure, but think there have been a couple of times I've arrived at the circle for a really high skied catch and held up right away and due to the ball coming down some time later my player dropped it. Or it's that I started holding it down before I touched the circle. I'm unsure.

Probably best that people experiment and see if you must wait until you're touching the circle before pushing up, or if you have to be careful not to have it down too long for skied catches whilst in the circle.

The only way to test that is with really high ones, but yeah I'm catching 95% of my outfield catches and about 20% of my close in ones.

As for caught and bowled, it is really hard, maybe it'll get easier. To make it a little easier, maybe if a bowler has really high catching stats and it's hit directly back at you and you didn't push up fast enough, that sometimes it'll get batted up, like we do see sometimes with real life caught and bowleds and there's a little bit more time to push the right stick up again?

Just a suggestion.

 

[Jadel]

Yep, discovered the fielding catching was up by process of elimination. I'm not sure, but think there have been a couple of times I've arrived at the circle for a really high skied catch and held up right away and due to the ball coming down some time later my player dropped it. Or it's that I started holding it down before I touched the circle. I'm unsure.

Probably best that people experiment and see if you must wait until you're touching the circle before pushing up, or if you have to be careful not to have it down too long for skied catches whilst in the circle.

The only way to test that is with really high ones, but yeah I'm catching 95% of my outfield catches and about 20% of my close in ones.

As for caught and bowled, it is really hard, maybe it'll get easier. To make it a little easier, maybe if a bowler has really high catching stats and it's hit directly back at you and you didn't push up fast enough, that sometimes it'll get batted up, like we do see sometimes with real life caught and bowleds and there's a little bit more time to push the right stick up again?

Just a suggestion.

I dont know exactly what the technique is but its not "up" necessarily. Im more inclined to think its "push in the direction you wish the fielder to leap/catch"

I cant remember the last catch I dropped in the outfield. Only the occasional c&b but even those are sticking more than 80%.

The fielders should have an S on their chest though based on the catches they take. Its really quite silly. They can leap a huge distance and have glue on their hands. Given how hard it is to bowl accurately it does make it nice and easy way to take wickets with catches but its very unrealistic.