How to Start your Own Fantasy Cricket League

How often have you had a dream of standing self-assured, ready to face a fast ball on a raw pitch at the stadium just like Dhoni or Virat? Often! Right? Here’s a chance to relish the same feeling as the real time cricket. Welcome to the world of Fantasy Cricket!
Technology teams up with sports to give you an opportunity to build your own team and compete at a fascinating level of thrill and excitement. Wish to know how to play fantasy cricket league? Read on!

•   Pitch Study

One of the important strategies is to study the pitch. Unlike the actual arena, the study of the pitch is very important to ensure winning. Make sure that before the player selection to visit the stat page of every series that you wish to play. The next thing is to choose the players according to the pitch conditions. Find out who has the highest score, who took the maximum wickets, batting average and most catches.

•   Build the Squad

This is certainly the foundation step. The key to this is to plan ahead. Go for the “Indirect relation method” i.e. for the initial 4 games have 4 players, 3 for the subsequent game, 2 for the next and 3 for the final. This means that you will have 1 player per team.

•   Substitution strategy

Every player has an opportunity to have 75 substitutions over 56 games which makes it approximately 1.5 per game. Choose your game wisely mister! Get on your smart hat and choose your rate.

•   Power Player decision

All-rounders have always been a safe bet. A Russels, Bravo, Pollard, Shane Watson have a way with both bat and the ball along with seamless field performance. The trick is to choose a player that can score 50 runs, manage about 2 wickets and a catch. This will fetch you 200 points.

•   Lock team post toss

This enables you to have a final look at the team before the final stand-off. All that you have to do is to manage all the 3 factors side by side. Coordinate between 11 players, pitch conditions and the toss results.

•   Involve your friends

This is has nothing to do with brotherhood if you think. This is a simple tip that will keep you ahead in a mini-league.

•   Wicket Keeper and its concept

Dinesh Karthik, Naman Ojha, and Parthiv Patel are a few players who are wicket keepers and bat in the top order. They are certainly a safe to buy when you aim for points behind the wicket.

•   Don’t worry once the match has begun

Despite the decision that you have taken, do not fret about it once the match has begun. The key is to manage your performance and stick to a good strategy. After all the best player is he who endures the game despite all odds.
Now that you know how to play fantasy cricket league, go grab the game!