 | Far more records and statistics like Highest Innings, Lowest Innings, Highest
Score, Best Bowling, etc. recorded like International Test Cricket. |
| Allow Domestic & International Batting, Bowling, Fielding & Team Records.
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| Built in Player and Squad Editor. |
| Difficulty levels. |
| Scenarios. (lead Durham to a trophy etc) |
| Be able to play in the WORLD CUP. There will be a new
version of ICC released to coincide with the World Cup. |
| Batsmen and bowlers should have an aggression attribute. I
assume this means a default rating for each player as opposed to being able to set
aggression levels during a match. |
| Counties able to play at their different home grounds. i.e. Lancashire play at
Southport or Lytham instead of just Old Trafford. |
| Should be able to play more than 20 seasons. |
| Different countries running simultaneously as in CM 97/98. |
| Play first class games against tourists and the Universities and 'A' touring
teams and U19 touring teams and internationals. |
| A search engine to seek out and find the players you want. |
| Control of the youth programme with real current county U19 squads. |
| A fully controllable 2nd XI in which you can blood young players. (from age 15
upwards) |
| England A and U19 squads to cut your teeth on before the Test team. |
| Separate Test and One Day International tour squads. |
| Career-ending injuries. |
| On international tours, players can be sent home due to injury and replacements
called up. |
| Simultaneous contract negotiations. |
| Players being more temperamental during contract negotiations, e.g. wanting to
leave if they can't get in the first team. |
| The choice of these during post-season contract negotiations is frequently very
limited. Could there not be a bigger selection? (I wanted Jayasuriya!) |
| Terminate contracts mid-season. |
| An option to select a football-style transfer system. |
| Managers should be able to be sacked. |
| Job offers from other counties and countries. |
| Ability to coach other international teams (after all it is INTERNATIONAL cricket
captain!) |
| Ability to leave your county post for an international job. |
| Ground improvements and more business features. |
| Be able to appoint retired players as coaches. |
| I would like to see a bigger coaching set-up like being able to train
Wicket-Keepers and practice catching with the help of appointing ex-test internationals to
help coaching like in CM3. |
| Better training - there seems to be some sort of bug whereby overseas players get
stuck on very low form ratings and do not respond to training. I had Shane Warne being
trained for a whole season and he never got above about 40. I experienced this with every
overseas player I tried (Wasim Akram, Brian Lara, etc) and finally gave up using overseas
players altogether. |
| Far less penalty for using Auto-Play. |
| Players retired hurt may re-appear later in innings/match. |
| The aid of a 12th man |
| A match referee. |
| Real umpires with realistic personality traits. |
| Square leg umpire to judge run-out and stumpings. |
| Third umpire for close run out calls. |
| Day/Night Matches. |
| More precipitation. (Rain, Snow, Bad light etc.) |
| The ability for it to rain in one-day matches therefore bringing the
Duckworth/Lewis method into play. This would mean having a screen graphics with +/- score
in front behind as well. It would also mean having an engine telling the user of the
likelihood of rain so they could decide when to attack. |
| The light to be offered in both one-day and four-day / Test games. Again an
engine could be introduced displaying the likelihood of going off for bad light. |
| The ability to ask the groundsmen what wicket they want prepared when playing at
home and how they want the wicket placed in relation to the boundary (example do they want
short boundary at one end long at the other, or for them to be equidistant). |
| Continuing on from above, the ability to be fined or punished points if you
prepare dangerous wickets, although you may be prepared to take the risk in certain
matches |
| More realistic four day run rates. (450 in a day - yeah, right) |
| One think that I would like to see and I think would be really cool is to show
team personality (i.e. Sub-Continent teams over appealing, demoralized players in the
field etc.) |
| Dangerous pitches. ?? |
| Ability to choose length of ball as well as line. |
| Ability to bowl around and over the wicket. |
| Different types of delivery. (flipper, googly, chinaman) |
| Include medium-slow and slow-medium bowlers. |
| Left arm orthodox and left arm wrist spinners should be distinguished. |
| Left arm bowlers to bowl OVER the wicket! |
| Ability to tell bowlers what style to bowl (pace or spin), Colin Miller is
capable of both and it has been used as a tactic in matches before. |
