International Cricket Captain Bits and Bobs

	Various bits and bobs that didn't fit in anywhere else.
	Where did you go, Indigo?
	There was a time when the best ICC site on the Internet was Indigo ICC, a website run by a group of ICC fanatics. It was great - they produced many resources such as scenarios, databases and photo packs. Sadly, though, Indigo disappeared some years ago, depriving the world of their knowledge. Some of the resources, however, survive on the Cricket Games and Cricket Web sites, and are worth a look.
	If you want to check out Indigo, you can buy the Cricket Games CD-ROM (click here for details), which has an offline version of the site, or to go to this page on the internet archive, Click Here. Archived version: Feb 2003.
	Miscellaneous Observations
	ICC is a very detailed game. There's hundreds of different calculations taking place all the time, and lots of things to say about the game. Here's just a few of the things I noticed whilst playing ICC...
	Overseas players figures - have you ever noticed how some overseas bowlers have really high bowling averages later on in the game? Personal bests are mad as well - Olonga 9-342, Vorster 9-369 etc etc etc. Must be some sort of bug in the random score generation.
	Why oh why oh why is there a serious shortage of wicket keepers in this game? It's not just in England but abroad as well. In the end, keepers are a rarity and scores seem to skyrocket with byes. To solve this problem, I have created an EOMA Wicket Keeper Database, which is available now.
	Since I first wrote the above comment, I came across a situation on one of my saved games where in about the season 2015 ten new wicket keepers became available in one year. And they were all rated 'excellent'! This is probably a script written into the game's code which regulates the number of English Wicket Keepers. I found this strange because this had never happened to me before in the game. As it turns out, none of the keepers were super batsmen (see below), but they were actually pretty competent.
	Whilst playing ICC, I have never come across a 'super batsman' which occurs 'naturally' during the course of a game in an English season. However, they definitely do exist. When you get to about 2015, check out the list of players' averages, looking out especially for West Indian wicket keepers. You may find some with stupidly high averages and 15 hundreds in 20 innings.
	At the start of the game, you'll notice that the minor counties teams, Ireland, Scotland and Holland never win in the cup games, at all. Well, this tends to change as the game wears on. As I mentioned in the player's guide, I have seen Scotland and Cheshire advance as far as the semi finals of the league cup. That's just mad! The cause of this, however, can be easily predicted - in most cases it is due to major county teams becoming worse. Teams which consistently fail to win anything will be left with little cash, and so are unable to buy any players of substance. As a result, their rubbishy youth team graduates are no match for the experience of the Combined Universities!


		Cool ICC Gifs!
		Check out these cool animated gifs I got from the Cricket Games website. Simply select one of the images to the left to view the animation.
		They're taken from the actual game, so they're probably copyrighted or something.

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