Cricket Coach 2007
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Topic: Cricket Coach 2007
Posted By: Freddie
Subject: Cricket Coach 2007
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 11:37am
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For those of you who remember Cricket Coach from last year, this year there is going to be a new installment in the management game, and direct rivals to ICC, the developers have worked hard over the winter to sort out the bugs of last season, and the game is set to be released soon.
Here are the features and some screenshots:
Rockingham Software is proud to announce that the popular Cricket Coach series is returning for the new cricket season. This years title will be available both direct from www.cricketcoachgame.com, and in retail stores from the end of May.
Cricket Coach 2007 allows gamers to take control of any international or domestic team from around the world and lead them to victory. Build a star-studded team over several seasons through careful management, and then take full control of on field matters, viewing your team's performances on the exciting 2D overhead match view. The Cricket Coach development team has taken on board comments from fans of the game and have introduced a host of new features. "We're delighted to have included so many of the features suggested by fans", said programmers Oli Norwell and Glenn Stiemens. "Adding in the ability to let the action unfold without the need for constant mouse clicking has opened the game up to more casual cricket fans, and improved the experience for hardcore fans of the genre". Building on a successful 2006 season, Cricket Coach 2007 looks set to bowl cricket fans over and firmly establish itself as the leading player in the cricket management world. New for 2007: Key features include: Screenshots
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/30.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/30.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/11.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/11.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/10.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/10.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/19.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/19.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/05.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/05.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/06.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/06.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/14.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/14.jpg
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/16.jpg - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/images/large/16.jpg
All the screenshots are available at:
http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/screenshots.php - http://www.cricketweb.net/cricketgames/cricketcoach2007/screenshots.php
I personally think that this game looks really good and promising, I played last year's version and although at times it was a bit buggy it was good, had good gameplay and I think the bugs could be put down to it being the first edition of the game. However over the last few months from the screenshots it looks like the developers have put a lot of work into this and I am hoping that this can challenge ICC and then ICC might start making changes to their game.
But a very promising game from looking at this and I hope it lives up to expectations.
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Replies:
Posted By: Isura
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 7:24pm
| Interface looks improved, and its good that now there will be an option to stay in the highlight window instead of always popping back to the main screen (if I understand it properly?) |
Posted By: nottsjoe
Date Posted: 29 May 2007 at 8:50pm
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Do you know if this is available on the Mac? ------------- Great start Notts keep it up!!! |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 1:35pm
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I'm not sure if it is or not, but you can go to their official website and ask them, the address is http://www.cricketcoachgame.com - www.cricketcoachgame.com . ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 30 May 2007 at 1:49pm
What a coincident, both the Cricket Captain 2007 Thread and the Cricket Coach 2007 Thread are side by side. . I've never played the cricket coach series before, although from the screenshots you provided it looks great! ------------- |
Posted By: Isura
Date Posted: 31 May 2007 at 3:07am
| Cricket coach takes some getting used to for an ICC fan, but its worth it imo. We just have to think differently about how to approach a cricket management game. |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 04 June 2007 at 6:23pm
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The developers of the game have finished testing the game and it will be available to the public within the next fortnight. ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 18 June 2007 at 5:11pm
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The game will be released on Friday 29th June 2007 (next Friday) at only Ł9.99. It will be available in retail scores across the world and directly via their website:
http://www.cricketcoachgame.com - http://www.cricketcoachgame.com
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Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 12:25pm
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Sounds like a good price, will anyone be buying the game tommorow. Tell me how it is! ------------- |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 28 June 2007 at 12:46pm
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Anyone who does buy both is more than welcome to submit a comparison piece for our media centre.
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 30 June 2007 at 1:49pm
| most early comments I have seen suggest it is not bad but there is a tendency towards high scoring a bit too much |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 9:45am
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I've started a game as Somerset, and I've played two matches so far, one against Glamorgan in the FP Trophy and one against Notts in the County Championship, the one-day game was fairly realistic, and considering the County Championship game was at Taunton, the 647-6 was pretty realistic too:
FP Trophy Game
County Championship Game
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Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 01 July 2007 at 12:09pm
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Looks like they have taken up a rather interesting concept! Are there more sixes in the limited overs matches? Also what is your review on it, was it worth your money? ------------- |
Posted By: Glenn Stiemens
Date Posted: 04 July 2007 at 10:56pm
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I'm expecting to be able to provide John Pennington (JP on these forums I think?) with a review copy in the next couple of days so he can review the title. |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 04 July 2007 at 11:03pm
Looking forward to it Glenn. ------------- |
Posted By: w3lshrugby
Date Posted: 10 July 2007 at 8:46pm
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I personally find this game a much better valued purchase than Cricket Captain 3. Both games are good, but I feel Cricket Coach has a lot more to offer gameplay wise than ICC does. It's great to have a genuine challenge to ICC's throne. Fantastic game, great work guys at Rockingham Software - shame about the publishing problems...
------------- My First Anniversary with Cricket World. 23/12/2006! |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:01pm
I've been making a Sky Sports Skin for the game, what do you reckon, feel free to comment:
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Posted By: ryanwkp
Date Posted: 15 July 2007 at 2:23pm
| that's really good |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 16 July 2007 at 1:26pm
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Nice work Freddie - as for the game itself, I think it's by far and away the best yet: http://www.cricketworld.com/media_centre/article/?aid=9375 - http://www.cricketworld.com/media_centre/article/?aid=9375 I'm currently unbeaten in the County Championship with Somerset, including chasing down 400 to beat Essex by two wickets last night! Struggling in the FP Trophy, however, which shows the game's realism. ------------- |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 11:41am
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I have spent the last week developing a Sky Sports skin for Cricket Coach 2007, so I'm hoping that a lot of you will download it. This is my very first attempt at creating a skin so I hope it's alright, please give your opinions on it. Here are some screenshots:
Here is the file, all you have to do is extract the file into your Cricket Coach 2007 Folder where the program file is stored (not the My Documents folder). http://files.filefront.com//;8075685;;/ - http://files.filefront.com//;8075685;;/
Enjoy,
Stevo.
P.S. Do not copy the file into your existing graphics folder as it will create another graphics file, and not overwrite the existing one. ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 11:49am
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Good work Freddie, I'm sorry I forgot to get you the flags file last night, I'll try and remember after I get back from Trent Bridge later. Just to update everyone on my progress, another couple of wins in the Championship, including one against Middlesex where I was playing for the draw, setting them 400 odd to win in two sessions, and we bowled them out to take an unexpected victory. Still useless in the one-day stuff, I played all the youngsters in my last FP game; they bowled very well but the batting just collapsed. In my game, England drew 0-0 with the Windies in the test matches. ------------- |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 11:50am
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It's alright JP, I got them from someone else, you going to be downloading the file then? ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 12:00pm
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Fantastic work Freddie. I have to say well done! One of the problems with living in Australia though is that we get all technology last so this may take some time to reach my shores.
From JP's review and some scorecards posted by Freddie, you have convinced me to buy!! Once again great work! ------------- |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 12:00pm
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I might be. I think I prefer the original for the moment, though.
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Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 12:25pm
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I just scored 748-2 dec against the West Indies on a Tauntonised pitch at The Oval, everything is set to flat on the pitch conditions, Ian Bell scored 369* and KP scored 201*. ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 1:39pm
Here's the screenshot of the third test between England and the Windies:
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Posted By: Clobber
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 1:47pm
| I believe a patch is due out soon - maybe it will address some of these excessive scoring issues |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 2:19pm
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1st August, and it will definitely be addressing those massive scores. I've not come across many outrageous scores yet (mind, I am playing as Somerset) although an interesting bug where West Indies scored 441 for 11 in a T20 international. And lost. ------------- |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 17 July 2007 at 4:31pm
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I beat the West Indies 3-0 in the test series, in the Twenty20 International and 4-1 in the ODI series, I didn't use very many test players at all in the one-dayers.
Test Squad
Strauss
Bell
Vaughan (c)
Pietersen
Collingwood
Flintoff
Prior (wk)
Plunkett
Harmison
Hoggard
Panesar
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Cook
ODI Squad
Solanki
Prior (wk)
Pietersen
Collingwood (c)
Trott
Bopara
Flintoff
Mascarenhas
Plunkett
Panesar
Anderson
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Cook
Tremlett
Broad
Sadler
Walker
I called up Sadler and Walker especially for the Twenty20, but I gave them an ODI at the end, considering Sadler scored 433 runs from 7 FP trophy innings and Walker took 17 FP Trophy wickets from 8 games at 13.37, then I called them up, however they didn't really impress.
However, considering England won an ODI series 4-1 (albeit with me in charge) there must be a major bug with the game.
And with that post I notch up my 1000th on Cricket World. ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: Freddie
Date Posted: 18 July 2007 at 10:00am
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That 748-2 is probably not as unrealistic, for example with that Jayawardene and Sangakkara partnership last year of over 600 runs, it's entirely feasible that a partnership like that could be repeated and then the two wickets fall for 150 runs. ------------- On extended leave... |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 29 July 2007 at 2:26pm
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I finally finished my season with Somerset, with us romping away with the County Division Two, and winning the Twenty20 Cup with innings from Langer winning us both the semi-final and final. Six batsmen got a double century, John Francis got a couple and Charl Willoughby finished top wicket-taker. Twice we chased 400+ and won. From memory, I think we had two draws, the rest were all wins. We were pretty useless in the one-day stuff, but I don't tend to fuss too much with that. caddiŁk is to retire though, so I'll have to recruit well for our Division One assault. Trescothick made a miraculous recovery and has yet to miss an England game, so hasn't played for Somerset yet. ------------- |
Posted By: Monty
Date Posted: 31 July 2007 at 8:54am
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just played on the trial its a useful game but i think cricket captain beatrs it every day ------------- Flavia et Cornelia sedebat sub arbore!!! Oh My goodness!! Sitting under a tree! |
Posted By: NZ_Fast
Date Posted: 03 August 2007 at 11:17am
| Have to totally agree with that monty |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 07 August 2007 at 12:31am
Did you buy it in the end? If so, what was your opinion. I made some great signings for my Somerset side. In came Jason Gallian and Ben Hutton to strengthen the batting and Kabir Ali and Heath Streak replaced the retired caddiŁk. Unbeaten in all competitions so far, just completed a crushing innings defeat of Surrey. :-) ------------- |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 08 August 2007 at 8:24am
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I did and at a reasonable price of $20 AUD. I must say as a vivid ICC supporter, it took a couple of days to get used tot he idea and concept of the gameplay. The animation was an exciting and interesting bonus to the game although do get a little tedious after you see it a few times. I also like the fact that you don't have to constantly keep clicking the mouse to bowl. The scoring is actually rather realistic, and the auto play feature is very useful. It takes longer to get through a game then I thought it would but I must say, in my books it's a surprising sucess! Such a simple gameplay! I think the Cricket Coach series is underated with ICC always beings the big shadow in which Cricket Coach is always seem to be under.
For the price of just 20 dollars, it is seriously worth a buy! Considering that ICC3 is worth about $70! Overall I give it 8.5 out of 10. Fantastic stuff I'm starting to get hooked on it! ------------- |
Posted By: Glenn Stiemens
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:24pm
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The patch for the CD version can now be downloaded from http://www.cricketcoachgame.com/ - www.cricketcoachgame.com People who have purchased through E-Licence should receive an email shortly with details on how to update their copy.
For those who are interested the patch addresses the following issues:
Cricket Coach 2007 Version 2.02 Changelist
========================================== ** This patch is incompatible with save games from previous versions **
Crashes
======= * Fixed crash bug when alt+tabbing in full screen on match view screen
* Fixed rare crash bug when reloading at the beginning of an innings and a catch was taken on the first ball Match Engine
============ * Increased probability of a team winning the toss electing to bat first
* Added code to ensure you can't be bowled from a wide ball * Fixed bug where ground pitch conditions were being reset to incorrect values if a player resigned and hadn't tailored pitch (contributing to very high scores) * Lessened effect very hot weather has on ball quality * Fixed rare bug where saving the game before a ball has been bowled in an innings resulted in every following ball being a dot ball * Fixed bug where player caught on the boundary and was out, but also got six runs. * Fixed bug where player fitness was updated after the first ball of a session, rather than during the lunch/tea break. * Made is so players fully recover fitness during lunch and tea. * Added in several more checks so that it should be impossible for any of these bizzare rare occurances to happen (e.g. 11 wickets in an innings) Gameplay
======== * Allowed the replacement of injured overseas players, as ECB rulings now indicate this is allowed
* Fixed bug where overseas replacements weren't possible if you had two or more overseas players already * Fixed potential crash bug where overseas player being replaced wasn't correctly set * Lessened the extreme to which you can tailor a pitch * Increased checks to ensure pitch bounce/turn cannot be out of range * Added code to jump straight in to the southern hemisphere season if we are starting with a southern hemisphere team * Made it less likely for players to be rested by the CPU when centrally contracted * Fixed bug where scrolling the central contracts list didn't effect which players' instructions were altered by contracts menu * Fixed issue with news item string where a match report headline was reported as "67* for Yorkshire in Yorkshire victory over Lancashire" * Added support for jpg team logos Data
==== * Updated English Regional Trophy playing conditions
* Updated English 40 Overs playing conditions * Fixed bug where Australian Twenty overs playing conditions were incorrect * Fixed bug where Bangladeshi One day playing conditions were incorrect * Fixed bug where non-Pakistani grounds were used for Pakistan's international matches |
Posted By: -JP-
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 1:53pm
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Any data updates included?
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Posted By: Glenn Stiemens
Date Posted: 17 August 2007 at 2:20pm
| Not in this release, no. |
Posted By: Dan Can
Date Posted: 18 August 2007 at 5:04pm
| Trial version activation code? |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 11:06am
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For any Australian out there who have been waiting to play as an Australian domestic team, Cricket Coach have launched a free download-able version available through this website: Ford%20Ranger%20Cup%20Manager - http://wwos.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=339820
Unfortunately this is only the Ford Ranger 50/50 version not the Pura Cup. However it's definately a plus to see a game that has Australian teams after being dissapointed with the orginal Cricket Coach 07 and Cricket Captain titles. It takes on the orginal format of Cricket Coach. It definately has very limited game play which does have a learning curve to overcome if you aren't familiar with the Cricket Coach structure. The game features 2D overhead action, a comprehensive database of players, the ability to change your pitch to suit your team, updated records of real life achievements and the overall competition to become the greatest manager. For anyone think of downloading, bare in mind that you may get bored rather quickly but if you've been waiting for a chance to take control of an Australian domestic team like I have, then it may last a lot longer than it should. Plus it's free! 
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Posted By: PaulNixon1
Date Posted: 16 January 2008 at 4:04pm
| Played on that its pretty good for a freeware game |
Posted By: MP12
Date Posted: 18 January 2008 at 3:36am
| I've just finshed my second season and am now into the third as Victoria. I've signed both Hayden and Jaques respectively so I'm hoping to get of to good start! |