Batting
- Defend, drive, sweep or cut the ball anywhere around the ground
- Hit sixes, leg glances and cut shots
- Acknowledge the crowd when score a 50
- Runbox display to show closeup of ball and fielder action
- LBW decisions given by the umpire
- Quick singles
- Option to declare
- Wagon wheel display to see where each scoring shot in the batsman innings
- Run rates shown
- Mac batting responds to the need for a run chase
Bowling
- Fast, medium, offspin and legspin
- Line, length, spin and speed controls for each ball
- Bouncers and no-balls
- Wide given if you bowl legside in Limited Overs games
- Dropped catches
- Set field for each type of bowler to Attacking/Standard/Defensive
- Selection of next bowler
- Tired of bowling? Use the Auto Play mode to sit back and watch the Mac face your bowling attack
- Move the fielders individually to where you want them
- In Limited Overs games, bowlers restricted to 20% of the total number of overs
Gameplay
- Test Match or Limited Overs
- Select level of difficulty (from Amateur to international
Pro)
- Full coloured kit for all teams in Limited Overs games
- Intelligent Fielders - favourite shots get noticed and the fielders get repositioned
- Bat or bowl first
- Single player game - play against the Mac
- Two player game - one player bats using the mouse and the other player bowls using the keyboard
- Tracker display to replay the balls in the over - zoom controls to move camera around the stumps
- Save and reload games
- Pause button when drinks can be taken !
Scores
- On-screen scores
- Full scorecard for each innings
- Summary scorecard to show the best bowling and batting performances
- Runrate graph for Limited Overs games
- Actual and Needed runrates updated ball-by-ball
Teams
- Complete set of international teams
- Each squad has 15 players from which to select the team
- Up-to-date bowling and batting averages for all players
- Teams from Australia, England, India, New Zealand, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, South Africa and West Indies
- View the full list of names with bowling and batting averages at any stage in the game
- Edit names in the list - you can add yourself and your favourite players
- Batting side shown in their international colours
Classic Games
- Set of real-life classic games from the cricketing archives
- Play the last innings and see if you can recreate (or
overturn) the history books
- Full commentary to set the background of the game, plus a
results screen
- Actual scorecard of the game
- Bat or bowl in the last innings and see how the pressure
builds
Wiimote
- Use the WiiMote to play all your shots
- Timing meter to help you improve the timing of each shot
- Play the ball early and you can lift the ball over the fielders for 6
- Defend the good balls on a length
- Watch the Drive and Cut/Hook meters on screen
- Call up other screens using the WiiMote buttons
General
- Universal binary - game can be played on PowerPC or Intel-based Macs
- Help screen available with hints
- Updated graphics and animation based on international games
- Full crowd sound (with option to switch off all sounds)
- Barmy Army in the crowd when England are playing