Animation of the bowler and batsmen is generally well done, with the bowlers run up and action looking very polished, the batsmen play some delightful looking shots, square-cuts cover drives and a lot more. It is the fielders that I find most troubling. They often just stand there as the ball passes them, very frustrating when you have just placed the fielder there and a ball passes beneath his legs to reach the boundary. They often just run along and escort the ball to the boundary. They do not dive for the ball either.
Catches also look unrealistic.
Maybe we should get Jonty Rhodes over to give them some fielding lessons. The view of the animation screen is also fixed, with a standard down the wicket over the umpire's shoulder look. This gets a bit tiring after a while combined with the fact that the pitch graphic is the same in every game regardless of which ground you are playing on. Players also wear white uniforms in one day matches. With today s high powered PC's and 3D accelerated graphics cards we should be able to zoom around the field and look at things from any angle we wish.