Kings of Cricket was a free-to-play cricket prediction game that challenged players to forecast the outcomes of six featured matches each week.
The game rewarded cricket knowledge, tactical thinking and a little intuition by asking players to predict match results across major international and domestic limited-overs competitions.
How Kings of Cricket Worked
Players predicted the outcome of six selected cricket matches before the competition deadline.
Rather than simply picking the winning team, entrants predicted:
- The winning side.
- Whether victory would come by runs or wickets.
- The winning margin using the prediction slider.
Predictions could usually be updated until shortly before the opening match began.
Tie-Breaker
If two or more players finished with identical predictions, a tie-breaker was used to determine the final standings.
Entrants were asked to predict the highest combined number of boundaries (fours and sixes) scored in any one of the featured matches.
This additional prediction was used whenever players finished level on points.
Results and Leaderboard
After all six matches had concluded, the final results were published and the leaderboard updated automatically.
Players could compare their predictions with the official outcomes and see how they ranked against the rest of the field.
About Kings of Cricket
Although Kings of Cricket is no longer active, it demonstrated how prediction games can successfully increase engagement with international cricket by combining knowledge, statistics and friendly competition.
Prediction games continue to be a popular format across cricket and many other sports, allowing fans to test their expertise while following every match more closely.
