Cricket 22: Career Mode Training And Recovery Guide

thegamer.com:

Cricket 22, for a sports sim with a tiny budget, has a great single-player career mode where you can, literally, take your career player from the local park to the World Cup.

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A new feature for Cricket 22's career mode is that you will need to make choices regarding your players’ fitness, training, and recovery. The leveling up of your skill points in the game is automatic and based on match performance and bonuses, but you can also boost your stats by training. These can be significant, especially when you are just starting out your career.

Unfortunately, the game isn’t great at telling you the details of how this works. So here is a breakdown:

There are three training categories that you can undertake for your player, and you can complete them on any day on the career mode calendar that isn't taken up with a match.

Unfortunately, depending on what system you are playing the game on, they are known to be somewhat buggy and certain things might not seem to work. If this happens to you, there’s no need to panic. You can progress your career just fine without having to do training at all, and this should all be patched at some point.

That being said, this is how they are supposed to work – and how, if they do work, they can really help progress your career:

Nets training will permanently boost stats for bowling, batting, and fielding. The longer you play in the nets, the bigger a boost you will receive - up to the ceiling as prescribed by your player's strengths and weaknesses (which you selected at the start of your career). You can quit nets training at any time, change the settings to make it as difficult as you like, and it even appears that you can train for as long as you want to get as big