What makes fantasy cricket legal and addictive?

Stars11 is one fantasy cricket game which is highly addictive
Stars11 is one fantasy cricket game which is highly addictive

Fantasy cricket is a fun and interactive online multiplayer game where users have to make their own virtual team comprising of cricket players.

Their team's success depends on the performance of the players they chose in real matches. The team that scores the maximum points over the course of the league and tops the leader-board wins.

To enhance the gaming experience, users can invite their friends to play and compete against each other. Fantasy cricket games are available to play in all three formats -ODIs, Twenty20 and Test Cricket.

Fantasy cricket has huge potential in India where people follow cricket like a religion. With the extent of internet penetration in India, there are tremendous growth opportunities for the online gaming industry.

New daily fantasy cricket websites are popping up regularly to cater to sports fans. They get a lot of traffic during popular tournaments like IPL and T20 World Cup. The fact that they have daily competitions where users can win prizes in the form of cash and other goodies helps them.

There are a lot of skills required to be good at the Fantasy cricket game like choosing the right combination of batsmen and bowlers depending upon the pitch, analysing the weather conditions, assessing the form of players etc.

In the Stars11 fantasy cricket game, users are allocated a certain budget within which they have to create their team. A unique point scoring criteria helps determine the winning team effectively.

All these permutations and combinations have to be kept in the mind by the users before finalizing their teams. In-depth thinking and pre-requisite knowledge about the game is what has made fantasy cricket such a success worldwide.

The common misconception is that fantasy cricket is gambling or betting. This isn’t true at all.

In fantasy cricket, users have to create their own team based on their knowledge about the game. The users should be able to analyse the game possess the necessary acumen to know about each player that they would want to pick in their team.

The competition is between sports fans who compete against each other based on their skills and knowledge about the game, with no money exchanging hands. This has no consequence on the outcome of real matches.

In conclusion, Fantasy Cricket involves great amount of skill and knowledge about the game, and needs thought, proficiency, involvement and quick decision-making on part of user.

It is completely legal to play in India and isn’t equivalent to betting or gambling and so is categorized as a Game of Skill as stated by the Supreme Court of India.

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Edited by Staff Editor
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