Warney and Ian 'Beefy' Botham have lent their voices to make this mode interesting, as they guide you through the basics as well as advanced techniques step-by-step, telling you where you've gone wrong and how you can improve. This mode not only shows you how to play, but it's actually fun for a change unlike most game tutorials. Those who wish to take an extensive course in learning how to play this game though, can play the game's 'Legends Coaching' mode which walks you through the finer details of each aspect of the game. Also, the fact that there are so many layers involved in playing a good shot, means that newer or casual/midcore gamers might find it really difficult to cope with the game, and would much rather stick to traditional styled cricket videogames. While the game's batting design makes it fun to play, it makes it that much less realistic, since unlike real cricket where you don't know where the ball's going to be pitched until the very last moment, in Ashes Cricket 2009 the ball's placement is revealed right when the bowler's run up starts, making timing your shots a far greater challenge than shot selection. Finally, to execute a shot you have to press the defense, attack or loft shot button, which are the Down, Left, or Right cursor keys, and time it perfectly. After that, you have to select whether you wish to play a shot without any footwork, on the front foot, on the back foot, or by coming down the pitch - by holding down no key, the CTRL key, the Shift Key, or both the Shift and CTRL keys together, respectively. You have to manually adjust the placement of a shot using the W,A,S and D keys to train a directional beam on your mini-field-map to play between the gaps. This isn't such a bad thing, since skill plays a bigger role here than it did in EA's cricket games (or Codemaster's older ones, for that matter), making playing against a human opponent more challenging and a true test of skill.
The fact that each shot played is broken down into so many variables - footwork, shot placement, timing and shot selection - makes the game's learning curve steeper than your traditional cricket videogame.
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