Prakash,
I think you may be mistaken about editing the .sav file. I have been successfully editing the .sav file using the hex-editor and have not been having the line-up bug during the past few days.
The following are the things that I do/did to overcome the line-up issue:
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1. First I modified roster.pak to change the default 20 players to the 20 that I want. I have done this only for the Indian team. I then modified the test and odi line-ups to reflect the changes that I made.
2. When I start a game, with India chosen as my 'user' team, I am presented with a set of 11 players (I do not know where this line-up comes from) from the 20 you selected in roster.pak.
3. From this line-up I pick my own set of 11 players that I want to use and make a note of the line-up that I chose along with the order in which I chose the players.
4. I continue playing the game, till the point where I have to save and quit the game.
5. Before re-starting the game, I go modify the appropriate (test/ODI) line-up in the .sav file to the order in which I chose the players. Please note that if I am playing a test, I modify all three test teams to be same and if I am playing an ODI, I modify the two ODI teams to be same.
6. Then, I restart the game and all the statistics are proper and if I continue into the second innings too, the line-up is as expected (from the .sav file).
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The bug happens right after step 4. When you quit and restart the game without making any changes to the .sav file, then during the first innings your line-up does not change (again not sure where it gets this info from) , but the statistics will be all wrong (it will be read using the .sav file order) and during the second innings the line-up changes to the order in the .sav file.
If you want me to post some snapshots of the non-default line-up of a saved game that has gone into the second innings, let me know. I will be glad to.
It will be great if you could enhance the line-up editor so that it works with the .sav file as well.
Thanx,