Game developers, computer graphics designers and algorithm developers at the gaming giant Electronic Arts’ Cricket division recently had a hard time as the deadline for the release of EA Cricket 2015 was fast approaching. World class programmers at EA who had already fixed most bugs, optimized the memory the game consumes and improved on the visual art were left severely puzzled and clueless about one part of the new version that was up for release.

The graphical and artificial-intelligence algorithms used by EA, that worked well for more than 13 pirated versions of the game (including the most widely pirated game Cricket 07 that has legends such as Tendehar, Gungly, Dhenier and Seway), are too bland and unimaginably hopeless to accommodate the range of shots played by the South African skipper and star AB de Villiers.

“We do believe in building scalable software, but this was just too much,” said Ketan Patel, EA Cricket’s Product Manager. “I mean, honestly, when our guys wrote the algorithms, we never thought we will see a player like this who could hit all kind of shots to all kind of bowlers, on all pitches, on all occasions and in all formats of the game. We never considered this edge case at all. Who would? We always thought Cricket was for humans and one God, not for Supermen.”

“The graphic algorithms had to be rewritten,” said Sridharan Padmanabhan, Senior Architect in EA Cricket’s backend team. “Many artificial intelligence modules had to be refactored. we had to develop a bunch of brand new algorithms to accommodate ABD in EA Cricket 2015. We have done a lot of hard work coding this shit up.”

Steven Collins, Chief of Sales at EA mentions that the developers at EA have put in so much effort to make EA Cricket scalable to ABD’s level and urged potential gamers to “buy” and not copy at least this version.

While we will have to wait to see how much EA Cricket 2015′s ABD resembles the real ABD in shot selection, execution, leading the team and other things, the real ABD hopes to play EA Cricket as well, which is currently the only game in the known universe he hasn’t mastered yet.