Contracts

You can choose to sign an overseas player and a reserve player to fill in for the overseas signing when unavailable. In Career mode you can also sign two overseas twenty-over players. The twenty-over players demand less than their usual wage, but can only be used in twenty-over matches.

Reserve players must be cheaper than your Main overseas. They are free.

English Career only

At the start of the first season you will have the opportunity to sign out of contract and youth players, as well as fulfilling your overseas allocation, if you can afford to do so. You can also change your budget allocation to free up money for signing players, or to increase your coach, physio and youth team budgets.

In subsequent seasons you will also be able to renew contracts, terminate contracts and sign youth team graduates. The “Ind20” column shows you whether the player is playing in the Indian 20 over league, and would therefore miss the first few weeks of the season.

Renewals

At the end of each season the contracts of some of your players
will have expired. If you wish, you
may re-negotiate their contracts immediately. To do so, select the name of the player whose contract you wish to re-negotiate, and select Renew Contract. This will bring up his details, including the salary he is seeking.

The salary will always reflect the optimum amount sought, so you may wish to bid less, but then again if you want to be really sure of getting the player you may wish to bid more.

Use the selectors to adjust the amount to your satisfaction. Select Make Offer when you are satisfied with the salary and length of contract. The player will then accept or decline, or invite you to make a new offer.

If the player accepts your offer, the money you have agreed to pay him will be deducted from your budget. If you decline to renew a player’s contract he will automatically leave the club.

Tip: you may prefer to wait and see which other out-of-contract players are available before re-signing some of your own players because you will have another opportunity to re-sign them in the next phase of the game when they will appear on the Out-of-Contract list. Of course, another club could outbid you at this stage.

Terminating contracts

If you wish to terminate a player’s contract at the end of the season, select the Squad button and then select the name of the player whose contract you wish to terminate. On the right of the screen you will see the player’s salary. The settlement figure will be calculated at 50% of his current salary, but because you are saving 50% of his salary this figure will be added to your budget, not subtracted.

Youth/Grade Team Graduates

Each year graduates from your youth team will emerge, providing you with the first opportunity to sign them. If you wish to offer them a contract then use the method previously described in re-signing out-of-contract players.

When you have finished signing or re-signing players and terminating contracts, select the Continue button.

Signing New Players

After you have finished negotiating with your own players you will have a chance to sign out-of-contract players from other clubs. Choose whether you want to view Domestic, Youth, or Overseas players. Use the method described above for renewing contracts in order to make an offer to the players you are interested in adding to your team. See bidding below.

Bidding

Bidding is conducted in a series of 10 rounds. You may not have more than three bids in progress at any one time. Your bids total may exceed your available budget in which case the bids will be resolved in the order of submission. So, if your first bid succeeds but uses up most of your budget, then bids 2 and 3 will probably fail because of lack of cash. For this reason it is important to prioritise your bids. When you have decided upon your three bids, select Continue.

At the end of the first round, you will be advised of the outcome of your own bids. This procedure will continue for nine more rounds, though you may curtail this by selecting on Exit. This is advisable when you have insufficient funds to make further feasible bids.

Budget Allocation

At the start of each season you will need to allocate your funds for the forthcoming campaign. You can choose to spend funds on the following areas:

Coaching – increases the number of coaching sessions available for your players.

Youth Team – increases the chance of good players emerging from your youth team.

Physio – helps to keep players fit by increasing the number of physiotherapy sessions available
and brings players back from injury more quickly.

Tips:

Player Types:

	Bat – Batsman.
	Ball – Bowler.
	Bat & Ball – All Rounder.
	Gloves – Wicket Keeper.
	Bat & Gloves - Part-Time Wicket Keeper.
O	Opener.

Some Players are specialist openers
for twenty over and one day matches. Their symbol will change in the team selection screen for the one day
and twenty over matches if they are specialists in that format. There is also an opener all-rounder player type. An opener who is a specialist for a particular form of the game is treated as a middle order batsman (or all-rounder) in any other format. You can find out if a player is a specialist by looking at their profile page.

Remember, in Cricket Captain our bowling speeds, in fastest first order, are: RF > RMF > RFM > RM.

To view vs Country data, you need to select vs Country from the time period filter (Starting with Career).

Contract Tips:

· If you get a good young player give him a three year contract to save money.

· Players will generally accept quite a lot less than they are asking for, but never on the first offer, and not if there are other counties offering close to your offer.

· There are lots of good overseas players so leave these bids until last.

· It’s a good idea to try to get a decent spinner if only because they can bowl more overs before tiring, so this way you can play county matches with four bowlers instead of five.

· Players will not be at their best until they have experience. They need
to play about 15 first class matches before they are experienced. 
They will continue to improve slightly with each additional match although they can also lose ability due to age. Test match players need to get experience as well.

· Cricketers need luck as well as skill. A player with a bad average may be good but unlucky. Take note of the number of near misses they get when bowling or batting, it will provide extra indication
of ability.

· Give young players a good run before writing them off. Second team averages also help in deciding if a player is any good.