• DON BRADMAN CRICKET 17
    Don Bradman Cricket 17 is an evolution in cricket gaming. Taking all the knowledge gained and bringing cricket truly into the next generation.

    Don Bradman Cricket 17 provides 5 difficulty levels that progressively deliver both expanded controls and harder opponents.

    The two lowest difficulties, “Rookie” and “Amateur”, will assist with foot movement and shot selection during batting. There is more leniency applied to timing, release and smoothness ratings when bowling as well.

    Full Length

    Short Length

    Good Length

    Yorker Length

    Delivery Selection

    Look Around (In Field View Mode)

    Special Delivery

    Field View

    Length (Shorter)

    Length (Longer)

    Quick Tactics

    Rub Ball

    Crease Approach Left

    Crease Approach Right

    Start Bowling Release

    Release Ball

    Slower Delivery

    Faster Delivery

    Full Length

    Short Length

    Good Length

    Yorker Length

    Delivery Selection/Bounce/Flight

    Look Around (In Field View Mode)

    Field View

    Length (Shorter)

    Length (Longer)

    Quick Tactics

    Rub Ball

    Crease Approach Left

    Crease Approach Right

    Delivery Quality

    Release Timing/Line

    Effort Ball

    Crease Positioning

    Look Around (In Field View Mode)

    Advance Up Crease (Toggle)

    Field View

    Quick Tactics

    Refuse Run

    Foot Placement

    Leave Ball

    Shot Type/Direction

    Advance Up Crease (Toggle)

    Aggressive Shots

    Defensive Shots

    Aggressive Grounded Shots
    +

    Unorthodox Shots

    Precision Shots

    Chip Shot
    +

    Pad Away
    +

    Tap Back

    Non Striker's End (Hold For Quick Return)

    Striker's End (Hold For Quick Return)

    Relay Throw

    Movement

    Reflex Fielding (Slow Mo Catch)

    Slide/Dive

    Sprint

    Appeal

    Dive (Hold)

    Cancel Run

    Run/Queue Run

    Sprint/Stretch With Bat

    Walk

Resume your last played game mode.

  • RESUME: Choose the resume tile to jump straight to your last played casual, career, tour, competition or online mode.

Play a single game of any match type against any opponent locally.

  • NEW MEN'S MATCH: Play a single game using only men's teams.

  • NEW WOMEN'S MATCH: Play a single game using only women's teams.

  • RESUME MATCH: Resume your last played saved match.

  • LOAD MATCH: Load a previously saved match.

  • DELETE MATCH: Delete a previously saved match.

Play matches against other teams from around the world.

  • QUICK MATCH: Play a Five5 match against an online opponent.

  • CUSTOM MATCH: Play a match using a number of different variables. Choose the match type, stadium, weather and gender. Also choose variables like whether to normalise skills, create a co-op match or have a private session.

  • LOAD MATCH: Load a previously played online match.

  • DELETE MATCH: Delete a previously played online match.

  • LEADERBOARDS: View your online result status against the rest of the world or your friends.

Play through a career as one cricketer. Start from club cricket to international with a rookie. Or start higher up with a star player.

  • BEGIN NEW CAREER: Start a new career.

  • CONTINUE CAREER: Resume your last played career.

  • STAR PLAYER: Choose from one of the on-disk players and pick up their career where they currently sit in selection status.

  • NEW CAREER - MALE: Create a male player and start a career at club level, working your way through the ranks up to international.

  • NEW CAREER - FEMALE: Create a female player and start a career at club level, working your way through the ranks up to international.

  • LOAD CAREER: Load a previously saved career.

  • DELETE CAREER: Delete a previously saved career.

Take a team on tour and play various match types and competitions via a calendar. These can be either on-disk or created in the match designer.

  • BEGIN NEW TOUR: Start a new tour.

  • CONTINUE TOUR: Continue a previously saved tour.

  • MEN'S TOUR: Choose from a list of custom or on-disk tours featuring men's teams.

  • WOMEN'S TOUR: Choose from a list of custom or on-disk tours featuring men's teams.

  • LOAD TOUR: Load a previously saved tour.

  • DELETE TOUR: Delete a previously saved tour.

One off competitions, with leagues, knockouts or series of matches. These can be either on-disk or created in the match designer.

  • BEGIN NEW COMPETITION: Start a new competition.

  • CONTINUE COMPETITION: Continue a previously saved competition.

  • NEW COMPETITION: Choose from one of the on-disk league, series or tournaments.

  • CUSTOM MEN'S COMPETITION: Create your own league, series or tournament featuring men's teams.

  • CUSTOM WOMEN'S COMPETITION: Create your own league, series or tournament featuring women's teams.

  • LOAD COMPETITION: Load a previously saved competition.

  • DELETE COMPETITION: Delete a previously saved competition.

Hone your skills in the nets, on the SCG or your chosen custom stadium. Learn the mechanics of the game via tutorials.

  • BATTING TUTORIALS: Learn all the mechanics of batting, from basics, to footwork, shots and running.

  • BOWLING TUTORIALS: Learn all the mechanics of bowling. Learn how to bowl pace, spin and advanced mechanics.

  • BATTING GAME: Play the batting mini-game at your chosen ground. Try to hit the dummy target while getting points for hitting the ball in zones around the ground.

  • BOWLING GAME: Play the bowling mini-game at your chosen ground. Try to hit the pitch and wicket marker to score points and streaks.

  • TRAINING PLAYER: Choose the player you wish to play in the batting and bowling games as well as ground and nets training.

  • TRAINING GROUND: Choose the ground you wish to train on.

  • GROUND TRAINING: Practice on your chosen ground as a batsman against a bowling machine or bowl at the stumps as a bowler.

  • NETS TRAINING: Practice in the nets as a batsman against a bowling machine or bowl at the stumps as a bowler.

At the start of a new career you will be able to choose the match and selection difficulty.

Match difficulty will effect how difficult your matches against opposition will be.

Selection difficulty will effect how easily your chances at selection for various leagues and competitions will be.

Upon choosing to play as a star player you will be presented with all on-disk eligible players.

After you choose your player you will then pick up your career from the point that player is at.

If the player you have chosen is in an international team, you will be able to play for that international team.

Upon choosing to play a career as a new male or female player you will need to fill out the player's identity. This includes the player's name, shirt number and commentary names.

After editing the player's identity information you will then choose your player's role, batting and bowling handedness, batting position, bowling style and mentality. Assign skills to your player from here as well.

Once you have completed the editing of your player's identity and role you will then be able to edit your player's appearance and equipment. You can also choose to copy your players appearance from an already made academy player or on-disk visual.

Select continue to move to team selection.

To start your career you will need to select a domestic competition to be affiliated with.

Once your domestic affiliate has been selected you will then need to select a club team to play with. This will be the team you start your career with (NOTE - You can create new clubs or edit these existing club teams for this specific career).

The advance to next event tile allows you to quickly skip forward to your next event.

Eventually you will reach a match day. From here you are able to choose whether to play or simulate the game. If choosing to play you will be able to select your individual batting and bowling difficulty. After selecting your difficulties you can choose whether to play the match as your specific career player or as your selected player's team. When you're ready to play, select the relevant tile and select tile and pressto proceed.

During your career you will receive objectives that you are able to complete during matches to earn Career XP (CXP).

These objectives can be completed over one or more matches.

Practice batting and bowling in the nets with your career player to hone your skills before taking to the pitch.

  • HEADLINES: View lineup information, selection information, competition results and more in the headlines menu.

  • MY PLAYER: View selection status by pressing. Edit appearance by pressing on the my player tile. View, edit or adjust your player's skills by pressing on the my player tile.

  • MY TEAMS: View all the teams you play for.

  • STATISTICS: View statistics of competitions, leagues and series for your current season.

  • STANDINGS: View the standings of competitions, leagues and series for your current season.

  • FIXTURE: View the fixtures of competitions, leagues and series for your current season.

  • CALENDAR: Progress through seasons or to a specific date without interruption. Simulating through matches will result in lower SP and reduced selection chances.

  • INTERNATIONAL RANKINGS: View the rankings of international teams across various formats.

  • SETTINGS: Adjust match and selection difficulties for your current career.

  • The Cricket Academy allows for creation of players, umpires and teams.



    Within the Cricket Academy you will be able to customise players equipment.



    Team creation allows for editing of team logos, uniforms and equipment from a team level as well.



  • ALL PLAYERS: View and edit all on-disk, downloaded and custom players.

  • MY PLAYERS: View and edit custom or linked players.

  • CREATE MALE PLAYER: Choose the ethnicity of your created male player first, then edit identity, appearance, equipment, skills and stats.

  • CREATE FEMALE PLAYER: Choose the ethnicity of your created female player first, then edit identity, appearance, equipment, skills and stats.

  • LINK PLAYER: Replace elements of a linked player with another players data.

  • UNLINK PLAYER: Unlink a player previously linked to another players data.

  • DELETE PLAYER: Delete or revert a player back to its default values.

  • EQUIPMENT: Edit and add logos to a players equipment. Edit and assign different types of of bats, hats, helmets, gloves, arm guards, pads and shoes.

  • SKILLS: Assign players roles, abilties and skills.

  • TEAM MANAGER: Manage your team, lineups, uniforms and identity.

  • CREATE MEN'S TEAM: Create the identity, lineups, uniforms, home stadiums for your custom men's team.

  • CREATE WOMEN'S TEAM: Create the identity, lineups, uniforms, home stadiums for your custom women's team.

  • LINK TEAM: Replace elements of a linked team with another team's data.

  • UNLINK TEAM: Unlink a team previously linked to another team's data.

  • GET BEST: Replace on-disk teams with the highest rated community versions.

  • DELETE TEAM: Delete a custom team, or revert to the on-disk copy of an on-disk team.

  • UNIFORMS: Edit and add logos to a teams equipment and uniforms. Edit and assign different types of hats, helmets, gloves, arm guards and pads.

  • EDIT UMPIRE: View and edit all on-disk, downloaded and custom umpires.

  • CREATE MALE UMPIRE: Choose the ethnicity of your created male umpire first, then edit identity and appearance.

  • CREATE FEMALE UMPIRE: Choose the ethnicity of your created female umpire first, then edit identity and appearance.

  • DELETE UMPIRE: Delete or revert a umpire back to its default values.

  • Search the community to find players, umpires and teams uploaded by you or other users.



    View my community to see your uploaded content. You can check your highest rated players and teams or use various criteria to search directly for specific content.



    Use the custom search tile to save your most used search parameters for use later on.



    The Logo Creator is a powerful new tool allowing you to create any logo you wish to make and apply them to players, equipment, uniforms and stadiums.

    While creating a logo you can apply a 'tag' to a logo to help with searching for that specific logo later on.

  • CREATE LOGO: Create new logos to use on players, equipment, teams and stadiums.

  • EDIT LOGO: Edit a custom logo.

  • SHARE LOGO: Share your logo to the community.

  • DELETE LOGO: Delete a custom logo.

  • The Stadium Creator allows for the creation of stadiums via a huge number of stand types and peripheral items. Create a huge coliseum or re-create a local ground to bring a new atmosphere to your matches.

  • CREATE STADIUM: Create new stadiums for use in any matches.

  • TEMPLATE STADIUMS: Create a stadium from base templates.

  • EDIT STADIUM: Edit a custom stadium.

  • SHARE STADIUM: Share a custom stadium to the community.

  • DELETE STADIUM: Delete a custom stadium.

  • Search the community to find logos and stadiums uploaded by you or other users.



    View my community to see your uploaded content. You can check your highest rated content via this section.



    Use the custom search tile to save your most used search parameters for use later on.



    The match type creator is an integral part of Don Bradman Cricket 17. This creator is where all of the rules for any match are set. By default the current rule standards are available for use immediately. The options available allow for thousands of different match types to be created.

  • NEW MATCH TYPE: Choose from over 50 variables spanning structure, innings, time, rules, fielding restrictions and audio/visual elements.

  • Setting up a new competition template allows selection of either a default match type or one you have created. You may set a league, knockout or series competition. The teams taking part will not be set at this point, this is done in the main competition menu when you select a template to play.

    Once a template has been created it is made available for use in any competition or tour.

  • NEW COMPETITION: Choose the structure, match type, logo and trophy. From here various parameters will change based on the structure you have chosen.

  • Creating a tour template allows the choice of a touring team and tour location (opponent).

    A calendar is setup so that either match types or competitions may be added to the calendar in order to play warm up matches and competitions against the host opponent.

  • NEW TOUR: Choose whether you wish your tour format to feature men's or women's teams. Then choose the country the tour will be in, the year and month the tour will take part in. Then choose the host (home) and touring (away) team.

    After setting up the basic structure you can move onto the calendar and place either competition and/or warm-up matches.

    NOTE - Your tour will need at least one competition in order to be saved.

  • Over 70 fielding presets are provided with Don Bradman Cricket 17, covering most match situations, additionally you may also create your own to give an extra level of strategy on the field.

  • COPY FIELD PRESET: Copy a field template you wish to edit from. Choose the bowler type, match type and field tactics you wish to be associated with this field. Then alter the field positions.

    • CREDITS
      View the people that helped make this game.


    • GENERAL SETTINGS
      Adjust visual, gameplay, online, camera and controller settings.


    • AUDIO SETTINGS
      Adjust various volume options and enable or disable music tracks.


    • CONTROLS
      View the controls for this game.


    • GAMEPLAY MODIFIERS
      Adjust various gameplay settings to your perfect level.


    • HELP
      View important gameplay and mode information.


    • CHANGE PRIMARY USER
      Change the primary user in control of the game.


    • USER STATISTICS
      View your earned user statistics.




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