🏏Fantasy Cricket

Fantasy Cricket will be live on FantasyGo in time for the SA20 Cricket Tournament in 2024.

Basic Rules and Team Selection

• Without exceeding your budget of 100, you must select 11 players comprising of:

  • Between 3 and 5 Batters (BAT)

  • Between 3 and 5 Bowlers (BWL)

  • Between 1 and 3 Wicket-keepers (WK)

  • Between 1 and 4 All-rounders (AR)

• You must select a captain and a vice-captain.

  • Your captain will score 2x points for your team, regardless of their score.

  • Your vice-captain will score 1.5x points for your team, regardless of their score.

• You can select a maximum of 7 players from one team in a match contest.

• Once you have submitted your team, you can make unlimited changes to your team until the contest deadline.

Types of Contests

Match contests: A fantasy contest taking place during a single cricket match.

Round contests: A fantasy contest taking place over multiple cricket matches.

Scoring Points

Action	Points	Note
BATTING POINTS
Run	+1
Four bonus	+1	In other words, if a player hits a 4 boundary, that boundary will be worth 5 runs (4 for the 4 runs and 1 bonus for the boundary)
Six bonus	+2
30-run bonus	+4
Half-century bonus	+8	30-run bonus falls away if player reaches half-century.
Century bonus	+16	Half-century bonus falls away if player reaches a century.
Dismissal for a duck	-2	Only applies to BAT, WK, and AR
Batting strike rate bonus: Above 170	+6	Minimum 10 balls faced. SR bonuses apply only to BAT, WK, and AR.
Batting strike rate bonus: 150.01 – 170	+4
Batting strike rate bonus: 130 – 150	+2
Batting strike rate bonus: 60 – 70	-2
Batting strike rate bonus: 50 – 59.99	-4
Batting strike rate bonus: Below 50	-6
BOWLING POINTS
Wicket	+25	Run out doesn’t count
LBW wicket bonus	+8
Bowled wicket bonus	+8	In other words, if a bowler gets a wicket via LBW or bowled, they will score 33 points (25 for the wicket and 8 for the bowled/LBW bonus).
3-wicket bonus	+4
4-wicket bonus	+8
5-wicket bonus	+16
Maiden over	+8
Economy rate bonus: below 5 runs per over	+6	Minimum 2 overs bowled.
Economy rate bonus: 5 – 5.99 runs per over	+4
Economy rate bonus: 6 – 7 runs per over	+2
Economy rate bonus: 10 – 11 runs per over	-2
Economy rate bonus: 11.01 – 12 runs per over	-4
Economy rate bonus: Above 12 runs per over	-6
FIELDING POINTS
Catch	+8
3-catch bonus	+4	Players taking more than 3 catches will also get 4 points as 3 Catch bonus. e.g., if a player takes 6 catches, they will not get 8 pts.
Stumping	+12	A method of dismissing a batter which involves the wicket-keeper putting down the wicket while the batter is out of his ground.
Run out (direct hit)	+12	A direct hit is inflicted by the fielder who is the only one to touch the ball after the batter faces the delivery. In all other cases, points will be awarded only to the last 2 fielders who touch the ball.
Run out (not direct hit)	+6
OTHER POINTS
Captain	2x score
Vice-captain	1.5x score
Winning a match	+3	Must have played in the match (excluding fielding 12th man)
Tieing a match	+1	Must have played in the match (excluding fielding 12th man)
Losing a match	-1	Must have played in the match (excluding fielding 12th man)

Other scoring notes

• All players can qualify for all points types (except where otherwise noted). For example, if a batter gets a wicket, they will get those bowling points, etc.

• If any runs are scored on an overthrow, points for those runs will be credited to the batter on strike for that ball. However, if the overthrow goes for a boundary, the batter will not receive extra Boundary bonus points.

• No points will be awarded for any actions during a Super Over.

• If your vice-captain plays but your captain doesn’t play: Your vice-captain will become your new captain and the cheapest player in your team will become your new vice-captain.

• If your captain plays but your vice-captain doesn’t play: The cheapest player in your team will become your new vice-captain.

• If both your captain and your vice-captain don’t play: The second cheapest player in your team will become your new captain and the the cheapest player in your team will become your new vice-captain.

Leagues

• SA20 2024

• IPL

• T20 World Cup