ICC World Cup 2015 - How to create your team

Hi all, if you've joined us in the past the email from cricket web with an invite should be coming in the next day or so, so keep an eye out for it - check your spam.

For those who are new:

Let me start by walking you around the bog. Look on the right hand side of the screen, see the links?? Those are handy. The one marked "Cricket 101" will take you to a good basic intro to the game and its rules if you care. You might not. The one marked "cricket web fantasy home" will take you to the site where you will create and manage your team. The other two "ICC World Cup 2015" and "Cricinfo" are both links to sites with useful info about the tournament - schedules, team rosters, and so on.

Now look at the bottom of this post. See in aqua blue where it says "0 comments" click that and leave a comment. The comments are the best part of the competition, really they are. Comment frequently. I will be trying to write a blog post most days during the competition. And we will also be posting a worm, Anna, you want to be in charge of the worm? The worm is a graph that will show your standings in our private competition.

So, that is blog. Visit often, comment with wild abandon. Now you need to create your team:



Go and click the link on the right for "cricket web fantasy home" and log in. If you've never played with us you will need to create an account – easy.

The on the left hand side choose “add team”, then choose “World Cup 2015 ODI Competition” from the drop down menu. And hit “select competition”

Now you have to pick a team name and your players. Team name is important – you want it to be good. :)

Players. You will see drop menus for the 11 positions (6 batsmen, 1 wicketkeeper, and 4 bowlers). Each player is listed under their country and they have a ranking A-E. You are allotted 125 points with which to create your team. A players cost 15 points, B players 13 points, and so on with E players costing 7. So you have to budget, you can not have a team of 11 A players.

You will also be able to make 300 modifications or trades during the tournament. So, you can change your team daily depending on who is playing that day. *****modifications are FREE until a few hours before the start of the tournament***** so feel free to just choose random people for now.

Once you have selected all your players, pick one of them to be your captain. Your captain will earn you double points (and will lose double points) so Captain choice is key. Also, it will cost you 4 modifications to trade your captain once the competition starts.

So go and make a team, leave us a comment with your teams name. I will post again soon with the next step.

Katy