Ever since it’s inauguration in the late 2010’s, fantasy cricket like any successful business didn’t stand with just one. They evolved, developed themselves and made it a better product for everyone to use and play. A lot of new games, features and other such things are now very common in different fantasy apps in India. What are these and how did they reach their target audience?
Well, India is a cricket crazy nation. No matter what you do concerning cricket, people will buy that and will get involved in that. Fantasy cricket originally started with just a single form of game. You can select a total of eleven players from the match and according to the real life performance of the athletes, users used to get the points. Things have now changed a little bit. All these features are of course still very much a part of the fantasy world but users can now play other forms of the game like – 2nd innings fantasy, Live Fantasy, Spot fantasy and other such things.
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Real11 introduced 2nd innings fantasy in the country. Here you can create your team for the 2nd innings and then can compete with your friends, family members or general mass. What that did is make more people interested in the game. People now have a lot of information about the game as they know how the pitch is played, how the form is of all the players and if or not the dew will take a part. This helped everyone to make their team easily. The fastest growing fantasy platform in India, Real11 revolutionized that as well. There you can select three players who will be giving you 3X, 2X and 1.5X points and thus, there won’t be a lot of clashes among the users.
Speaking about Real11, the company has also introduced Spot fantasy in India. In spot fantasy, you can play fantasy cricket in every delivery and win loads of money in return. Live fantasy is another unique concept that’s available on this platform but they are not the makers of it.
In Live fantasy, you can play for five overs and can choose only 5 players from both the teams. Thus, it is a very interesting concept. A lot of users regularly tune in to play this contest and in return, they are making a lot of money.
Other than this, the best fantasy apps are also introducing or already have a lot of games on their platform. For example, Fantasy football, Ludo, Carrom, Kabaddi etc. Thus, fantasy apps are just not about cricket. Yes, they are the prime sport but that’s all.
With all these new cool features and brilliant interface, fantasy cricket is just getting better and better in India. All the trends are helping the business to grow and will soon be one of the biggest businesses in India. Already around 50 million people play fantasy games on different platforms and according to reports, more than 30 million will join in the next eight years. Thus, exciting times are ahead for both the business and the users.