Syedur Rahman's
The Cricket Simulator
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NEWS AND UPDATES
NEW - February 2003 - UPDATED SQUADS FOR WORLD CUP
The Cricket Simulator
team files have been updated with the current squads that will be participating
in the World Cup in
NEW - February 2003 - SIMULATED RESULTS
OF FIRST ROUND WORLD CUP MATCHES
After skipping some lectures last week, I was under
pressure to do some work and catch up. After five minutes of very exhausting
reading, I decided to take a three hour break and simulate all the matches of
the World Cup. You can view the score and commentary files from below or
download the whole bunch of them.
December 2001 - Often in the
previous version (i.e. v5.2), some bowlers' figures were missing from the
in-game bowling card and the score files. (My thanks to Jeremy Brereton
for pointing that out). Last night, I just happened to be running the
source code on the interpreter when it happened again. So, I was able to figure
out the problem and it's fixed now.
November 2001 - The Player Points Checker and Player
Transfer Program
I wrote these two programs based on suggestions from those who installed and
played the Cricket Simulator.
The Player Points Checker shows the all round relative strengths of each player
using a points systems based on a formula involving the batting and bowling
averages of a player.
The Player Transfer Program allows you to transfer a player from one team to
another while retaining his career stats (I know that is something totally
against ICC regulations but I intended it to be used for domestic teams, where
players do transfer from one team to another). The transfer program has not
been tested thoroughly, so I suggest you make a backup copy of each team file,
before attempting a player transfer.
Both the exe's are in zipped form, so they must be
decompressed to the Cricket Simulator directory and run from there.
The Player Points Checker checker.zip
The Player Transfer Program transfer.zip
October 2001 - The predicted results of the cancelled
New Zealand tour of Pakistan
Following the terrorist attacks in the United States on September 11, the New
Zealand board cancelled its tour of Pakistan (this is a cricket site, so her
you with more details). Last week, I sat down and used the announced squads of
the competing sides to simulate each game that would have been played. You can click on the following link -
New Zealand's simulated tour of
Pakistan 2001 home page, to view the stats and scores from this site
You can also download this zip file containing the
overall series stats and the scores from each match. The files must be unzipped
to a directory in which the Cricket Simulator version 4.3 or higher has been
installed. However, your old team and stats files will be overwritten, so its a much better idea, to copy the Cricket Simulator exes
to a new directory and then unzip the files there. Click here to
download zip file
June 2001 - The Cricket Simulator League
The newest version of the cricket simulator (the one that stores stats) was
used to simulate a league involving the top twelve cricket nations of the world
with each team playing all the other teams once in one day internationals. The
results were pretty accurate with
About the Cricket Simulator and
its new features
The Cricket Simulator is yet another freeware cricket
game in text mode. It's a one-man game, designed and programmed in QuickBASIC by Syedur Rahman, who
was then a GCE A Level student. There are two executables included in the zip
file - 1daycric.exe (for the one-day version) and testcric.exe (the test
cricket version).
The game uses a complex formula - about 136 lines of
code - to generate the game, by combining the batsman and bowler’s averages,
and predicting the possible outcomes of each ball. The team data are stored in
files with the extensions SRC and STC for the one-day and test teams
respectively. Each file can hold data on fifteen players, and while beginning a
game, a player can select any 11 of them to play in that particular match. The
player will have to select whether to "Play with a team" or not, that
is whether he/she will be in control of the team (i.e. team selection, bowling
changes, declarations, batting orders etc.)
While playing, if you want to speed up the game you
can hold down the enter key, and the computer will make all the decisions for
you automatically, if you hold the shift key the game is sped up, however if
you have selected to "play with a team" it will stop when decisions
need to be made by you. To quit at any time, keep the escape key pressed.
The results after match are stored in two files
score.txt (score file) and comm.txt (commentary file). Score.txt will have the
batting scorecard, bowling figures and partnership stats of each innings played
in the match. The comm.txt file has ball-by-ball commentary including the who is bowling to who and the outcome of each ball, line
by line. After each match, the computer will ask whether you want to save the
score file, you can do so by pressing Y and inputting a
8 letter file name, it will automatically be given the extension SCT. You can
also view the recentmost score by selecting
"Display old scores" from the main menu and then choosing
"Display recentmost score". You can also
select to load an old saved score file from the current directory.
The new version also stores the statistics of each
player for all matches played using the cricket simulator. You can view or
erase them from the view stats option on the main menu. All records (matches
played, innings, runs, averages, strike rates, wickets, economy rates etc) are
stored and updated in the team files after every game.
The commentary file can be displayed by going to
Display Old Scores option and then selecting commentary file. The recentmost commentary file can also be saved or viewed. If
saved the extension SCC is given to it, and it can be loaded later at any time.
The newest version of The Cricket Simulator includes
the following features·
The test cricket version has some added features as well
as those already mentioned
Finally, I hope you enjoy playing and I would like to thank
all those who downloaded the earlier versions and of course those of you who
will be trying out the latest version of The Cricket
Simulator
The official "The Cricket Simulator" web
site at http://cricksim.thesportcity.com
Syedur Rahman
Designer and Programmer
The Cricket Simulator
E-mail address: syedurrahman@gmail.com
Personal Site: http://syedurrahman.tripod.com
Cricket Site: https://syedurrahman.tripod.com/cricket/
Copyright 2001: Syedur Rahman, The Cricket
Simulator