Indian 20 Over Contracts

The contracts for your twenty over Indian League team appears at the end of each season. The first task in the contracts section is to decide if you want to re-sign any players in your current squad whose contracts have expired. Take note of the available column: certain players may not be 100% available for the tournament due to international commitments, but their salary demands will be proportionally lower. You can terminate player contracts by going to the squad screen, selecting the player, and selecting “terminate contract”. You will have to pay half the player’s salary as compensation.

The next task is to sign domestic and overseas players. You are limited to three offers per round, competing with other teams to bid for players. Consider the length of contract you wish to offer and check if the player has received offers from other teams. You may be able to sign players for less than their salary demand if there is no competition.

Bidding

Bidding is conducted in a series of 10 rounds. 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 through lack of funds. 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 Exit. This is advisable when you have insufficient funds to make further feasible bids.

Coaching and Physio

Your twenty over team will have eight coaching sessions and two physio sessions available.

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.

The bowling speeds in Cricket Captain (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.