The quick one-run is very easy to get away with. If the keeper quickly recovers the ball, rather than smash apart the stumps at his end, he'll throw it to the opposite end allowing you to reach safety. This doesn't happen all the time, though it is enough of a problem to be annoying. While easy to execute, bowling and batting are very difficult to execute properly. Bowling has become more difficult than that seen in EA Sports ' last cricket outing, Cricket World Cup 99 .
Batting is insanely easy.
If you don't have it set on Expert mode, that is. Expert removes the control icons such as the bowling marker, where the ball will pitch, and batting cone, where you want to hit the ball. Watching these plays unfold was similar to watching a match on television. What the game does well is the little animations that players perform, such as stretching out, rubbing the ball against their crotch, and batsmen leaning against the bat as they rest up. Commentary is also well performed by cricket stalwarts Richey Benuad and David Gower.