Despite this list only containing 26 trophies, this is potentially one of the toughest Platinums you could run into.
It's best to explain that statement, before continuing, as the difficulty rating given might cause some confusion surrounding it.
Alot of the trophies in this list, if played out legitimately, would be borderline impossible to achieve properly. The "Test Match Domination" trophy, awarded for scoring 600 runs or more in an innings of a test match, would require a ridiculous amount of skill and patience if you were to actually sit there and try and score all 600 runs with a single batsman's innings.
The same can be said for the "The Top Hat Trick" trophy, awarded for taking 4 wickets in a row with one bowler, and the "If You Want Something Done Right" trophy, awarded for taking 10 wickets in an innings with a single bowler. These are all feats that just simply aren't realistically achievable without bending the rules a little bit, and, in order to make sure you give yourself a chance of actually grabbing this Platinum, you will need to bend said rules.
The solution is to use a touch of save game trickery, in order to maintain your progress at certain points in order to be able to go back to them, just incase anything goes wrong, or you need a cushion to fall back on towards certain milestones. Saving your progress often, and then reloading your data whenever necessary means you can steadily climb to the totals required for the harder trophies and eventually unlock them.
The requirements of the aforementioned trophies are so great that, without this, you almost definitely wouldn't be able to achieve this Platinum. The tasks required of the player are just simply far too hard to be realistically achievable under normal circumstances, but the overall challenge is greatly sacrificed as a consequence, simply down to poor trophy design.
With that being said, a few of the trophies do, at least, pose a legitimate challenge. The "Ashes Destroyer" trophy, awarded for taking 40 wickets with a single bowler in the Ashes series, means you need to average around 4 wickets per innings with 1 player, which is a solid run-rate to try and keep up with.
The "10 Wicket Defeat" trophy, awarded for winning a test match by 10 wickets, requires you to chase down a second innings total without losing any of your opening batsmen, which can be tough, given the fact you'll most likely be chasing down a high run total, and the "Innings Defeat" trophy, awarded for winning a test match by a whole innings, requires you to bowl out your opponent twice without the need for playing your second innings.
There are a few trophies awarded for winning a One Day International tournament, a Twenty20 tournament and the Ashes Series, which will add a fair chunk onto the estimated completion time, and the games tutorial section throws a few easier trophies in for mastering the arts of batting, bowling and fielding.
This could potentially be a really tough Platinum. There are a host of trophies which are almost impossible to unlock in theory, but given the fact you can literally play the game ball-by-ball and reload after each delivery in order to manufacture certain situations for the benefit of unlocking the harder trophies, it makes the Platinum fairly easy.
This would only be an issue if the trophies were realistically achievable, but they're not, and it practically feels mandatory to use the save system to your own advantage. There are still a few legitimately challenging trophies that are actually satisfying to achieve, and the Platinum will still require around 100 hours of playtime as a very minimum, but this could have been much tougher, if the trophy design was more well thought out.
Notable Trophies -
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| Ashes Destroyer - Take 40 wickets in an Ashes series with a single bowler in single player 10 Wicket Defeat - Win a Test Match by 10 wickets in single player or an online ranked match Innings Defeat - Win a Test Match by an innings or more in single player or an online ranked match |
Test Match Domination
Score 600 runs or more in an innings of a Test Match in single player or ranked online match
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