There are a few problems I have with this game, but this is still the best Cricket game available on the market today. The controls are fluid and responsive for both batting and bowling, the graphics are very nice and getting a good score feels genuinely rewarding. The upper difficulty levels are brutal, but not impossible. With recent patches, nicks carrying behind have become far more common which makes fast bowling as a career player much more relevant and the ability to skip to your turn while batting means you are no longer forced to call for runs as the non-striker when you can't see where the ball went. These are all excellent changes.

Anyone who's played a FIFA game before is familiar with the concept of rubber-banding and this game can really take it to the extreme. If the game decides you're out, you're out and if a fielder has to break the sound barrier running from square leg to take a catch on the boundary at deep long off to make that happen, then so be it. If your team is going to lose, it's going to lose and if the number 10 batsman on the team has to hit 300 off 90 balls to make that happen, then it's going to happen. It can be interesting, at least, to see all the ways the game can come up with to shaft you.

[h1][u][b]THE PROS:[/b][/u][/h1] There are a few problems I have with this game, but this is still the best Cricket game available on the market today. The controls are fluid and responsive for both batting and bowling, the graphics are very nice and getting a good score feels genuinely rewarding. The upper difficulty levels are brutal, but not impossible. With recent patches, nicks carrying behind have become far more common which makes fast bowling as a career player much more relevant and the ability to skip to your turn while batting means you are no longer forced to call for runs as the non-striker when you can't see where the ball went. These are all excellent changes. [h1][u][b]THE CONS:[/b][/u][/h1] Anyone who's played a FIFA game before is familiar with the concept of rubber-banding and this game can really take it to the extreme. If the game decides you're out, you're out and if a fielder has to break the sound barrier running from square leg to take a catch on the boundary at deep long off to make that happen, then so be it. If your team is going to lose, it's going to lose and if the number 10 batsman on the team has to hit 300 off 90 balls to make that happen, then it's going to happen. It can be interesting, at least, to see all the ways the game can come up with to shaft you.