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Fantasy Cricket: Let your Selection Skills Run Riot!
By Ella Wilson
So what images conjure up in your mind when you hear 'fantasy cricket'? Well as the term itself suggests, it lets your imagination run wild and lets you live your dream. Fantasy cricket basically means a game where you can build up your own fantasy XI. All cricket fans have their own dream XI, and they always wish to create their dream team. Fantasy cricket is an opportunity for such cricket fans to unleash their cricketing brains and use their knowledge to create their dream team.
All cricket lovers at some point or the other have been dissatisfied with the team which has been selected for a match or an entire series. In such a scenario, everyone feels that they know what the best combination of their favorite team must be. Often fans end up frustrated and wish that they could have a say in the team selection process. Well this does not seem possible, so why not settle for the next best option available. Take part in fantasy cricket and choose your own team and see how they actually perform in the cricket field.
There are many online sites which provide cricket fans with the option of playing fantasy cricket. There are some websites where users simply need to get themselves registered for playing the game online. On the other hand there are also sites which require visitors to pay a certain sum of money to be able to play the game.
Playing fantasy cricket is very simple. First of all what you need to do is choose your dream team from the set of existing International players. The player list contains the name of players who are playing in the series and a point value is allotted to them depending on their form and skill levels. Visitors can have their own scoreboard containing the names of the players they have selected for their team. The scorecard will display the performance of your selected players.
As the series gets underway, your selected scorecard will get populated depending on the on field performance of your selected players. Remember winning or losing a fantasy cricket game depends on the performance of the player on the field and not by the reputation they have. For example Sachin Tendulkar is a great player with staggering statistics. However since he has not been active in international cricket for a long time, having him in your fantasy team, can actually be a burden. So use your head while choosing your team and do not go by what your heart says.
Cricket is a team game and so you will have to choose a properly balanced team to play the game. This means that you cannot pack your team with all the top stars of the cricketing world. You will have to think and balance out newcomers with the stars in order to create a team within the allotted point budget. Before you embark on playing fantasy cricket online, make sure that you are very well aware of the rules of the game. I am sure that you do not want be in a situation where you do not know what you are exactly up to while dealing with anything related to your favorite game.
Fantasy cricket provides the opportunity to many cricket fans to realize their dreams of selecting their team. Fans can select their own team and actually see how these players perform in the field. This is a wonderful opportunity for serious cricket lovers. So what are you waiting for, sign up and start playing fantasy cricket.
About the Author
Ella Wilson is a cricket fanatic. She simply loves the game and tries to catch live action no matter where she is. She works for Stickiewicket to stay in constant touch with both on field and off field events related to cricket. At Stickiewicket she works on online cricket score, Fantasy cricket and Cricket news among other things.You can see her works at http://www.stickiewicket.com
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