Fantasy Cricket

What is Fantasy Cricket?

Fantasy Cricket is an online gaming genre that involves putting 11 top players in a virtual team and getting rewarded in total for their individual performance in a series. As a Fantasy Cricket team selector, you should select the top 11 players who can be best relied upon to score points for your team with their personal performances in batting, bowling and fielding. This is especially better in shorter formats of the game and thus comes into its best in ODIs and T20s.

The best thing is you do not have to stick to these 11 players every time. You can easily replace the low performers with some seemingly better options throughout the ongoing series. This would, of course, depend on several competing factors and we are taking them on subsequently.

Reading Fantasy Cricket News is important!

Just like reading newspapers is good on a daily basis, reading fantasy cricket news too has its own pros. This is so important because it offers updated news, fantasy cricket tips, and insightful articles that can help you win BIG. We thus recommend you read sports news and fantasy cricket tips to get the best fantasy sports experience in India.

A careful selection of players is crucial to creating a match-winning team. Here’s a list of factors you might want to look at before creating your online fantasy cricket squad to win BIG!

Playing online fantasy cricket is a completely skill-based endeavour that depends largely on yourunderstanding of the sport and your own instincts. The end goal is to create a match-winning team usinga certain maximum number of players who can perform their best in the following subset:

• Playing conditions
• Pitch and weather conditions
• Toss
• Opposition
• Current form and track record
• Captain and Vice-Captain
• Previous experience of playing against the same opposition
• Top batsmen and bowlers
• Uncapped Players
• Strengths and weaknesses
• Batting or Bowling order
• Status: Injured, Recovering or Makinga comeback
• Availability of chosen players
• Players who can score Bonus Points

There are few more such factors that go into the making of a high-performing online fantasy cricket team. We advise you to follow the BalleBaazi Blog to get updated and real-time information on the checklist above and to get expert analysis of the game you’re going to play next.

Here’s why you should choose BalleBaazi!

BalleBaazi is home to a comprehensive online gaming experience comprising several cricket fantasy leagues, monthly promotions, fantasy points system, referral bonuses, top rewards and monthly leaderboards. We suggest you get in the act with a better show of your skills and passion for the sport that you love the most.

Here’s a small list of factors that would help you decide in our favour:
1. Three different variants (Classic, Batting and Bowling)
2. A safe, secure and trusted gaming environment
3. Two fast and snappy smartphone apps
4. Expert advice on team selection
5. Exciting monthly contests
6. Micro Leagues with Buy-Ins as low as INR 1
7. Several Cash Leagues and Practice Games
8. A dedicated Blog that offers Fantasy Cricket Tips, News and Analysis by experts
9. #YuviBaazi: Yuvraj Singh’s expert analysis and insights per game
10. Referral bonus and Partnership Program
11. Monthly Leaderboards for consistent performers

Yes, the more exciting contests you are playing, the better it shows on your game. You can also invite your friends to spice up your journey to the moon and win BIG!

How to Play Fantasy Cricket on BalleBaazi.com?

BalleBaazi is a frontrunner among the best fantasy cricket portals in India. It is powered by three exciting online gaming formats, two free-to-use smartphone apps, a blog with expert tips and tricks and tons of premium rewards. It offers the same class-leading experienceto all fantasy players in India,whether they are new to this online genre or are pros at it!

We would suggest you download BB’s daily fantasy cricket app to make the most of your online fantasy gaming experience today. It is your gateway to the three exciting online fantasy gaming variants that you can play as per your choice. These variants are Batting, Bowling and Classic- and they are all as exciting as you’d expect them to be!

Please continue reading this page to know how you can play fantasy cricket in India as per your preferred variant, starting today.

How to play fantasy cricket games online?

It is indeed a very good question. At BalleBaazi, we offer you straight-line access between your passion for Cricket and creating match-winning fantasy teams. We advise you to visit our detailed coverage on the topic through videos and infographics to help you learn the basics of fantasy gaming online.Apart from them, you can also visit our detailed and expert Fantasy Cricket Tips and Tricks section to make the most of your every online game with us! As for the starters, you can download our apps and choose the Fantasy Cricket League that you would like to play in. Please choose Practice Contests or Cash Leagues as per your proficiency and preference. Post that, you may create your team of superstars and you’re all set to rock!

1. Get Started!
Getting started with fantasy cricket on BalleBaazi is as easy as 1-2-3! Please follow these steps to get started now:
• Signup for or Login to your gaming account on BB.
• Download the all-new BB app for your iPhone or Android-powered smartphone.
• Choose the current cricket series you’d like to play in.
• Choose from the Classic, Batting or Bowling Fantasy variants.
• Choose from Cash Leagues or Practice Contests.
• Create your best team of 11 players (for Classic Fantasy) or 5 batsmen or bowlers (for Batting or Bowling Fantasy respectively) from two competing sides in a league.
Please note that you would be allotted a certain number of points to choose your preferred players and to create your team.
• Submit your team once done and relax!

Once the real match goes live, you would start getting points as per the performance of your chosen players. You can check your progress when you click on the ‘My Leagues’ tab at the bottom of the BB app. The points that you accumulate during the match would be your basis to win the league for that match.

2. How to play in threevariants on BalleBaazi?
BB offers three exciting gaming formats on its app and website to help you explore your skillsets to match-winning dimensions. These three formats relate to three different disciplines of the game and we offer them as our preferred online variants so you could derive maximum advantage playing them. They are called Batting Fantasy, Bowling Fantasy and Classic Fantasy. Please note they all differ in elements like team composition and the number of free credits allotted to include players in your virtual squad.
You can pick your favourite as per your interest and get started with fantasy cricket 2019 leagues soon. Here are the three formats offered by BB:

1. Classic Fantasy

A Classic fantasy squad is a close match to a live cricket match team. A major difference is that you can select players from both the playing teams unlike the latter. This is a basic version of cricket fantasy online games.
o You can choose a maximum of 11 players for your team.
o You may select up to seven players from one competing team.
o Captain and Vice-Captain have 2x and 1.5x points respectively.
o You would get a maximum of 100 credits to create one team for an online fantasy cricket game on BB.

2. Bowling Fantasy

This cricket fantasy game format is apt for those who are confident about making it to the top with their winning bowling squad. This game format involves creating squads with the best bowlers from each team to play fantasy league games. This should always contain at least one strike bowler who’s in great form.
o You can select five bowlers, with up to 3 players from one competing team.
o Captain and Vice-Captain have 2x and 1.5x points respectively.
o You would get a maximum of 45 credits to create one team for a league.

3. Batting Fantasy

This cricket fantasy game format on BB is best suited for players who prefer playing the game with only the best batsmen on board. This game format involves creating teams of five top batsmen from each team. The onus is on creating a balanced squad that can absorb the pressure and comesout good every time.
o You can select five batsmen, with up to 3 players from one competing team.
o Captain and Vice-Captain have 2x and 1.5x points respectively.
o You would get a maximum of 45 credits to create one team for a league.
This three-dimensional set of variants is your shot to bigger wins on BB as you choose to play fantasy cricket in 2019 and 2020 leagues here. Since you are already in-sync with the concept of cricket fantasy online, it’s about timewe move forward to learn the daily fantasy cricket rulesto build our game up.
We suggest you choose a maximum of 3 to 5 Batmen and Bowlers, 1 Wicketkeeper and a maximum of 3 All-Rounders for BB’s Classic Fantasy variants. It would be great to include a high-performing Captain and Vice-Captain in each fantasy squad that you create for maximum advantage (regardless of the variants). It is so because they attract 2x and 1.5x points per player’s performance and can create the difference between winning and losing a game any day.
Please visit our expert Fantasy Cricket Tips and Tricks page to know more!

3. Cash Leagues and Practice Contests

Choosing between Cash Leagues and Practice Contests on BalleBaazi is the easiest thing to do. We advise you to choose the latter if you are new to this online genre. In case, you know a bit about the game and the genre, you are most welcome to play Cash Leagues on BalleBaazi!
There is another way of maximizing your love for the game. You may play in BalleBaazi’s Private Leagues- and it is very simple. All you would need is to refer your friends to BB, ask them to download its app, claim your referral bonus and then offer your friends a unique Private League invitation. As and when they join, you all can start playing Private League with them!

4. Points System

BalleBaazi’s highly innovative and player-centric Points System ranks among one of the best in the industry. It caters to three different variants for those who play daily fantasy cricket in India. Please follow BB’s Point System page to know more about how you can drive maximum advantage per unit here.
This page offers detailed and updated information on how many points you may win for including a certain set of players, and how they would continue to get points for their performances in every game. These points are segregated across the following heads:
• Classic, Batting and Bowling Fantasy
• T10, T20, One Day International (ODI) and Test Matches
• Runs scored, 4s and 6s hit, Wickets taken
• Every 30, 50 and 100 runs scored by a batsman
• 2-5 wickets taken by a bowler
• Economy rate for bowlers
• Strike Rate for batsmen

There is a lot that you can know as per performance and your winning rate from BalleBaazi’s Fantasy Points System. It is applicable across all games and variants on this best fantasy cricket portal.

5. How to win Fantasy Cricket games on BalleBaazi?

Winning at fantasy cricket games requires skill, patience and persistence. We offer a transparent process of offering virtual games and then deciding the winners based on their respective performances. As mentioned above, a fantasy player gets some points based on his selection of players and their respective performance in the real matches. This is applicable across all gaming variants, be it Practice Contests or Cash Leagues.
Secondly, there area certain number of payable positions in a league. Thisinformation is game-specific and is always pre-disclosed on the BB app. Please note that you would be eligible to win a prize only if you fall in that bracket. It is thus that we recommend you playour Practice Contests on a daily basis so that you can learn and evolve through the game like a pro. And yes, you may always take your next step by playing Cash Leagues to win BIG!