How to Choose Best Fantasy Cricket Player

Fantasy cricket is one of the most-discussed topics currently not only in India but also all over the world. It is a game played using the Internet, where participants have to create a virtual team from a pool of fantasy cricket players. One of the participants becomes the winner​ according to the real players’ highest statistical performances in an actual cricket match.

Choosing the best cricket player for an online cricket contest is not as simple as you think. You just have to be aware of a few simple tips and tricks to choose the best.

Here are a few tips that will help you understand how to choose the best cricket player in the best possible way.

Do your research

It goes without saying. Research is the first step in choosing the best cricket player for your fantasy cricket team. It is a must to select the best cricketer for your team to win. You have to find out more players, and about them too. It may be a daunting task to find out players and also about them that you have never heard of in your life.

Fantasy cricket on many cricket tournaments

You can play fantasy cricket on many cricket tournaments or matches, ranging from domestic to international. A fantasy cricket contest​ you will play that based upon which​ level (national or international) and belongs to which country?

You have to choose any ongoing or upcoming tournament. You have to create your fantasy XI cricket team by selecting real cricket players from two cricket teams who will play in an actual match.

If you choose a tournament, you have to know how many cricket teams or which cricketers will compete against each other in the competition. After that, you will have to look for the full tournament squads. In the next step, you are about to play fantasy cricket on a real cricket match of that tournament; you will have to look for the entire squads in the respective two teams.

Look at the players’ performance.

You must look at the performance of players in the recent cricket matches they played. You should also look at the history (domestic, ODI, Test, and T20I) of the players.

● Runs scored

● Batting average

● 100s/50s

● Top score

● Balls bowled

● Wickets

● Bowling average

● Five wickets in innings

● Ten wickets in the match

● Best bowling

● Catches/stampings

Their past performance and history will help you to know about them.

Look at whether a player has been a good performer in recent competitions. But don’t mainly go for choosing a cricketer since his performance has been excellent a few months back.

Key points to keep into consideration:

● If an individual performed well previously, it doesn’t mean the player would play well in his upcoming tournaments ​or matches.​

● If an individual didn’t play well previously, it doesn’t mean the player would not perform well in his upcoming tournaments or matches.

● There are a few players who remain passionate, dedicated, and relentless in their performance.

You have to be very careful while choosing players for your team; after all, your earnings depend upon the players’ statistical performance in a one-off match you select.

Don’t go for favorites.

The golden rule of any fantasy game is to avoid picking your ​favorite cricket players​ for your fantasy cricket team despite you like or love them the way they take wickets, sixes, fours, etc.

What players to choose

You will get 100 credits to pick eleven players in your team. While ​picking eleven real cricketers​ from the two sides, your focus should be on players and their credits, remaining credits out of 100 credits with yourself, and the deadline of the team submission.

You have to choose the following players.

● Wicket Keeper​ (​Minimum: 1, Maximum: 4)

● Batsmen (Minimum: 2, Maximum: 6)

● All-rounders (Minimum: 1, Maximum: 6)

● Bowlers​ (​Minimum: 2, Maximum: 6)

● A captain and a vice-captain

The captain gets 2x points for his in-play performance, while the vice-captain gets 1.5x points.

While selecting players, you will be able to click on their images to know about them. There are a few fantasy sports platforms that implement this feature.

Know the weather and a pitch report

Analyzing weather, and having a pitch report are things that most ​how to choose fantasy cricket players​ do not heed on. While choosing players, considering both weather and pitch will be cherries on a cake.

● When there is a slow and dry pitch played in the afternoon time, then you should go on picking more spinners than swing bowlers.

● When there is a pitch like Wankhede stadium, you should choose power hitters and swing bowlers.