Cricket Betting

Cricket betting is one of the growth areas in online sports betting as a whole and can offer highly interesting variations for the online gambler. Often you will find that online bookmakers will offer many different ways to bet on cricket events. As cricket matches can have durations of hours or days you can find that betting on cricket may offer you the prefect way to add interest to the game.

Whilst not everyone's cup of tea, betting on cricket has its own steady following amongst the online sports betting community, and continues to draw in new  internet betting fans looking for something different to wager on; especially come the summer when the main English cricket season is upon us (and football takes its annual break).

With England winning back the Ashes Series last summer, and the ICC Trophy currently in full flow, cricket remains high on the virtual sports betting agenda during the second half of 2009 as new and existing cricket betting fans add to their enjoyment of TV coverage by placing internet bets on the outcome of such massive events in the cricket calendar. With the more traditional county cricket experiencing something of a renaissance of late, along with the excitement and fast-paced drama afforded by the emergence of the Twenty20 format, the future of interactive betting on cricket matches is assured, and by following our routinely refreshed cricket news and accompanying online bookmaker guide you'll be in safe hands as we direct you to the best online cricket betting bookmakers.

Cricket Betting with Free Betting Online

Let's face it, there is a great choice of Test Cricket matches and tournaments to bet on in cricket. One of the big attractions is the newly created Twenty20 cricket competition and a subsequent Twenty 20 World Cup.

Different ways to Bet in Cricket Betting

Outcome Betting

One of the most obvious ways to bet in cricket betting is to select the team/nation that will win an individual match. This will generally offer the shortest odds, due to the numbers of people who will bet on the outcome and the fact that there are only three outcomes possible from a cricket match: Win, lose or draw.

Tournament and Cricket Series Betting

Sometimes the best Sports Betting opportunities arise in the lead-up to an important series or world tournament, such as the Cricket World Cup in 2007. You can find out which games will be played where and when well in advance of the game. If you are looking for the 'safer' bets for cricket, the large nations will often be playing the smaller nations a number of times. By placing your online bets into an accumulator you can increase your return on investment more quickly without huge risks. In a cricket series you can also bet on the likely out come of the overall test: home team win, away team win or drawn series. Betting will also be available on the margin of victory within the cricket series. As with all tournaments, upsets will happen and these will likely offer the best value individual bets.

Score Betting

It is possible to modify the simple win, lose or draw bet by including prediction on the margin of victory, i.e. the number of runs, or wickets, that a particular team will win by. You can also bet on everything related to scoring from the frequency of wickets being taken, the time that wickets will occur, scoring rates, and bowling figures.

Bet on the Batsmen

Before a match it is possible to find sports betting bookmakers who will allow you to bet on particular batsmen achieving a particular goal. Whether you want to bet on Freddy hitting a certain number of sixes or for a weaker batsmen to be out for a duck all things are possible in the world of online betting.

Bet on the Bowler

Every bowler will end up with statistics that represent their play after every day of play, and ultimately every match. You can elect to bet on the figures that you believe a particular bowler may achieve. So if you feel that the Indian bowlers will achieve six wickets on the opening day's play of the England Vs India Test, or that the English strike force may not take a wicket in the first day of play, you can find the right bet at the right price for you.

Realtime Betting

One of the innovations in cricket betting, and even general Betting, that has arisen through the advent of the Internet has been the provision of realtime betting. In cricket matches it is possible to open a window on your desktop and bet on the current goings on of the match. You can bet on which batsmen will be out next, which bowler will take the next wicket through to what the final outcome of the match will be. Each of these will have constantly changing odds to reflect the balance of the game.