Internet Cricket Games

[Teatime FatCat]

I have played International Cricket Captain 2002 obsessively for years, continuously starting with unfashionable counties and trying to take them to the top. Many obscure players have had long and amazing England careers with me, and I find that you can play for about 20 seasons before the game ends.

In my time, I have made Hampshire, Middx and Durham powerful UK champs. I have also won all four domestic comps in a season on a couple of occasion, and I have become sadly addicted.

The obscure England superstars are as follwos -

Matt Bulbeck - Now retired Somerset all-rounder. Left arm swinger par excellance! 360 test wickets
Paul Hutchinson - Ex Yorks all-rounder
Jason Brown - Got over 300 test wickets
Chris Schofield - Ditto
John Crawley - Played Test cricket until he was 40 as England wicket-keeper
Ramps - Many tests as England opener and off-spinner
David Sales - Brief but high-scoring England carreer

Players who were strangely useless -

Vaughan
Stewart
Fraser
Tufnell
Thorpe
Hick
Salisbury (no change there then!)

[The Phantom Ram]

This thread is really wetting my appetite for ICC 2005.

[Pete]

Originally Posted by The Phantom Ram

This thread is really wetting my appetite for ICC 2005.

You can download a demo here.. http://www.planetcricket.net/modules...inkinfo&id=374

[Lemming]

I've got a winning formula with Warwickshire. It's really simple, I get the groundstaff to prepare a spinning pitch for my three spinners (yes, three spinners), Gilo, G. Swann and Loudon, but also bat down to at least number nine with at least seven of my batsmen aggressive. I also make sure I use a batsman who can keep rather than a specialist keeper.

[Pete]

How do you keep your batsmen aggressive while scoring? Whenever I put my batsmen into an aggresive mode they get out fairly early and they're the players that are naturally aggressive - KP, Flintoff, Trescothick.

[Irish Left Armer]

I had one of those games years ago. I think it was ICC2 so it must be fairly old. Once you assembled a good side winning the Championship was easy enough but I always found one day games very difficult. No matter what you do the opposition could score at very high run rates against any fields before they were well set. Then when I had to chase these big totals down my batsman would all die trying to score at 6 an over from ball one. The other option of playing a couple of guys in and trying to score heavily once they were set failed because by the time they were in you'd be looking at about 8 an over.

Good craic though.

[The Phantom Ram]

Downloaded ICC 2005 today and it is just the same as the old games (a good thing I suppose). Seems a bit harsh to charge full price for a game that is basically a data update.

[Pete]

Don't buy it then, know what I mean?

[The Phantom Ram]

Originally Posted by Pete

Don't buy it then, know what I mean?

No sorry, I don't think I do.

[Lemming]

I've played six seasons now with Warwickshire (come on the Bears) on ICC2005. I've won 17 trophies, 5 County Championships, 4 Nation League titles, 4 50-over Competitions (can't remember it's name) and the 20Twenty Cup 4 times.

I had Matthew Hayden for three seasons who was amazing, Glenn McGrath was not that good for the one season I had him, Shaun Pollock did a good job for a season. Fahad Masood played for two seasons and took a lot of wickets. I signed Virender Sehwag for two seasons in a row, in his first season he broke Hayden's record for most user runs in a season scoring 2,200 runs. In his second season he scored more runs than the previous year - including an innings of 424 - but he never scored more runs than wicketkeeper Gautam Gambhir who broke the clubs record scoring some 2,500 runs in the season.

I've just signed an aging VVS Laxman and some useful Bangladeshi spinner whose name I can't remember. I've got no decent openers although Ed Smith carried his bat on his way to 250 in his second first class game for the Bears. He opens with Michael Powell.

I've built my middle order around three youngsters all career-averaging around 50 and capable of 1,500 runs in a season. I have Alex Loudon and Graeme Swann all-roundering it, then my Bangladeshi spinner and Naquaash Tahir and some fast bowler (whose name I can't remember) who is very good and often plays for England.

But this is possibly the worst team I've had, I'm not too sure how I will fare in the limited over competitions as I haven't got many attacking batsmen, but I should be OK in the County Championship. I'm thinking about getting more of a challenge though now as Warwickshire has always been able to provide me with the funds to maintain a decent squad. I'm either going to switch to 'Normal' from 'Easy' and play with the Bears again, or I might stick with easy and try a slightly more difficult team.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Has anyone else been playing the game?