Trade Cricket players like you trade stocks. And create your own winning IPL team
April 16th, 2009, San Francisco. Cricket lovers rejoice! They now have the opportunity to manage their own cricket team online in a fantasy cricket game - the first completely online league.
CricketFantasies.com has created a riveting online fantasy cricket game that has been grabbing attention at a brisk pace. Fantasy cricket is about creating a virtual team with your favorite cricket players and competing against other similar teams, created by your friends or other fans on the website. The teams (a.k.a fantasy teams) earn points based on the performance of their cricket players in actual cricket games. The objective is to make a team that earns most points, by the end of the IPL season. With exciting prizes like Nintendo Wii and X-box to be given away to the winners, the fans are competing with that extra bit of fervor.
“We had been playing NFL and NBA fantasy leagues for a while, and realized that something similar had been missing for cricket! Whatever was out there seemed pretty naïve and un-exciting. So, we decided to create a new fantasy gaming site. Cricket fans would love it, with tournaments like IPL, T20 world cup and Champions League approaching", say co-founders Sugam Pandey and Balpreet Pankaj - graduates of IIT Guwahati and IIT Kharagpur respectively, now working in Silicon valley.
CricketFantasies.com is the first fantasy gaming site that allows its users to buy cricket players in an auction. The users are given 2 million dollars upon joining using which they bid for cricket players and build their teams until the actual cricket tournament starts. Once that happens they play one-on-one fantasy cricket matches with each others‘ teams. When actual cricket games are in progress, the users can even trade their cricket players with each other in a fantasy stock market. Both one-on-one fantasy matches and fantasy trading market is the first of its kind innovation from CricketFantasies.com.
source: FPR
Shashank Nigam, a die-hard Cricket fan from Singapore says that he's hooked to the website. "I love the fact that I can now "own" my favorite players and outbid my friends if anyone tries to snatch them. It's all very exciting."
Headquartered in San Francisco (California), CricketFantasies.com is being led by two IIT Graduates and one IIM-A Graduate. Being from these reputed institutions indeed gives it strong credibility. Having launched strongly, CricketFantasies.com is already showing bright prospects, with traffic growing exponentially everyday.
So, what are you waiting for? Are you a cricket fan? Do you think you can build the best team with 2 million dollars? Register at http://www.cricketfantasies.com and start playing fantasy cricket already!
For more information:
745 Sutter Street, San Francisco, CA - 94109 Ph: 413-6874870 Website:http://www.cricketfantasies.com
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