What is Fantasy Cricket? A Beginner’s Guide on How And Where To Play

In today’s scenario, the majority of people from all over the world, who are cricket fanatics, have accustomed themselves to the game of Fantasy Cricket. This game has gained a lot of popularity amongst all age groups and is quite interesting to play.

Cricket being the most-watched sport in India, playing Online Fantasy Cricket has given cricket enthusiasts a platform to showcase their love and passion for the game. There are plenty of online fantasy apps which provide you with an ultimate gaming experience in a smooth manner and also keeps you entertained!

Before jumping into the details on how to play this game, let’s take a closer look at the answer to the question – What is Fantasy Cricket? The answer is very simple. Starting with the initial thought process, that is, you need to choose a total of eleven players for your dream team. Unlike the real game, here you have the luxury to choose from a pool of 25 to 30 players who are from either team. In the real game while selecting the line-up for Team India, Virat Kohli cannot be dropped out even if he has performed badly in the previous matches. But in a fantasy cricket contest, you can pick or drop a team member according to the requirements or performance of the players in the previous games. However, there will be some restrictions and you will need to comply with the rules of the game.

Most online fantasy cricket apps require you to pick at least 1 wicket-keeper, 3 bowlers, 1 all-rounder, and 3 batsmen. While some other apps provide a unique scheme with a few alterations in the selection of the players.

Another important task is the selection of a captain and a vice-captain after choosing the eleven players of your team. According to the conventional format, you would be able to earn extra bonus points from both of them, that is, 2x points for the captain and 1.5x points for the vice-captain. Now comes the most vital part, which is joining a contest. Upon successfully creating your fantasy cricket dream team of eleven players, you can sign-up for a contest depending on the rules and requirements. Several contests are held such as Head-To-Head contests and the Grand League matches. If you want to play just to gather some experience and not the money, then you can participate in the practice contests that will help you in becoming a veteran fantasy cricket player.

Fantasy Cricket Apps like MPL offer many skill-based cricket matches and tournaments like T20s and ODIs. You can download the app now and play any of the series or championships. It is one of the best platforms for cricket lovers and for anyone who enjoys playing online cricket games.

Follow the below step-by-step guide to enhance your winning streaks in a fantasy cricket match.

1. Select a Match

To participate in a fantasy cricket contest, you can choose from a list of series, championships, or single matches. There will be a drop-down menu from where you can select a match. You can directly click on the match and participate, or you can search for the match in a particular series from the menu and then play. Further, the matches listed in the app are grouped into two categories – Current and Upcoming. You can either select a Current match and register in a contest to play, or you can select from the Upcoming matches and get the information of the future matches that are not yet open for user participation.

Users in a fantasy contest should select a match for participation within the mentioned time, or else when the timer expires the match will no longer be available to the user for participation.

2. Select Team Players

Once the user has selected the contest to play, the user needs to choose the players for his/her team to win a match. The user must focus on creating a winning fantasy team and select eleven players for his/her team to meet the criteria. The most vital aspect of selecting players is to have a mixed combination of players (batsman, baller, wicket-keeper, and all-rounder) to enhance the overall performance of the team. After selection of the 11 players for the team, the user has to nominate a Captain and a Vice-Captain to earn extra bonus points; Captain earns a multiplier of 2 points and Vice-Captain earns a multiplier of 1.5 points. Once all the selection is completed, the user must save the team in the app.

3. Set Batting Order

Users must set a Battling Order for the team during a fantasy cricket contest. This is again an important aspect of winning a match. Players with better batting performance can be moved up the batting order, and likewise, ballers can be moved down the batting order in a simple hold-and-drag mechanism. This ensures the best batsmen to face more balls to score bigger runs on the board.

4. Pay and Participate in the Contest

After the completion of creation and saving the fantasy team on the application, the user shall be prompted to the payments section. Here, the user can make the payment from My Wallet if there is a sufficient balance on the required credits, otherwise, the user can buy/add additional credits online.
In order to register for the contest and play, the user will have to make the necessary payments.

5. Reshuffle Batting Order/Use Substitute Player

During a live match, when your team is not playing well against the opponent team, you can improve your team’s batting order by reshuffling the players up and down. You also have the option to substitute one of your players by looking at your opponent’s strategy. This means that if your team had more number of batsmen than the number of ballers, you can substitute a batsman with an additional baller to counter the batsmen from your opponent’s team.
The user gets a chance to improve his/her winning streak and to use Substitute within 10 minutes of completion of the match.