Cricket betting guides: odds, markets and live bets

Goexch shows decimal odds. The number is your total return for each ₹1 staked, and that includes your stake. Odds of 2.50 return ₹2.50 for every ₹1.

On an exchange you can back an outcome to happen or lay it not to happen. When you lay, you take the other side of someone's back bet, so you risk the amount they would win.

Log in, open Cricket and pick a match. Choose a market, such as match odds or a session, and tap the price on the back or lay side. Enter your stake, check the potential return in the bet slip and confirm.

Prices move all the time, so look at the price in the slip once more just before you confirm.

A session market asks how many runs the batting team will have at the end of a set over, for example after 6 or 10 overs. You'll see two lines. Back Yes if you think the team reaches the higher number, or No if you think it finishes below the lower one.

Extras count towards session runs, including wides, no-balls, byes and leg byes. If the team is all out or reaches its target early, the session settles on the final total. Super over runs never count.

Fancy markets cover other events in the match, such as a batter's runs or the fall of the next wicket. Each one settles on the official scorecard.

The toss market settles on the official toss result. If no toss takes place, every toss bet is void and your stake comes back.

A toss is close to a 50/50 call, so neither side can be priced at a true 2.00. The gap between the price you get and 2.00 is what the bet costs you, and it adds up over many tosses.

In-play prices update ball by ball. After a wicket, a boundary or a review, the market is often suspended for a few seconds while prices reset, and no bets are accepted until it reopens.

Your bet only counts once it's matched. On a fast-moving market, check your open bets to see whether it was matched in full, in part or not at all.

Every price implies a probability: divide 1 by the odds. 2.00 means 50%, and 1.50 means 66.7%. Add up the implied probabilities for every outcome in a market. Anything above 100% is the margin, and it's the reason betting costs money over time.

On a sportsbook the bookmaker sets that margin. On an exchange, prices come from other players, and the gap between the best back and lay prices shows how much you give up.

Decide how much you can afford to lose each month before you deposit, and treat it as the cost of entertainment. Split it into small, equal stakes so one bad session doesn't use it all.

You can set daily, weekly or monthly deposit limits, take a cool-off break or self-exclude. Message your account manager on WhatsApp and they apply it to your ID straight away.