Can I just say I enjoyed the disintegration loops reference? A classic combination of cricket and another thing I like a lot, a bit like when Bert did his Ashes crossword. Why I like reading KC. Keep up the good work everyone.

Ged, that Jaffa Cake post is the peak of cricket blogging, here or elsewhere.

The pinnacle of “backed by science” writing on King Cricket was the utterly magnificent Jaffa Cake experiment, conducted by special correspondent, The Scientician.

http://kingcricket.blogspot.co.uk/2007/02/jaffa-cakes-as-sports-snack-shocking.html

That article is the benchmark against which all other posts are judged.

Frankly, this computer games graphics/uncanny valley one, while delightful in its own way, does not come close to the Jaffa Cake one in my view.

There should be some sort of ‘backed by science’ badge you could add to this sort of post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley

“The concept of the uncanny valley suggests that humanoid objects which appear almost, but not exactly, like real human beings elicit uncanny, or strangely familiar, feelings of eeriness and revulsion in observers.”

So your arguement actually has scientific backing. While I feel that cricket games peaked with Brian Lara’s Cricket 96 on the megadrive, the actual peak may be still to come!

Clearly they are behind on over rate.

Also worked with slower balls.

Also, if it rained you just had to bring the spinner on, bowl as short as you could and as slow as you could, and almost without fail the batsman would be bowled as the ball came down for the second bounce.