Spotlight on the Fantasy Hundred League
After the popularity of the T20 format, the Hundred is taking further the trend of the short format of Fantasy Cricket. A 100-ball cricket franchise held in England and Wales. It is played by both men and women. In the first edition, more than 5,00,000 tickets were sold.
Let’s move forward and learn about the league and its format.
What is The Hundred Cricket?
Hundred Cricket is the new format of fantasy cricket. After the popularity of the T20 format; the first edition of Hundred in 2021, was quite successful. It's a limited format fantasy cricket league, where both sides play up to 100 balls. 8 Hundred Cricket teams compete with each other and, a total of 32 matches are played. BBC managed the broadcasting of the first edition.
The history of the Hundred
The ball cricket idea was given by Sanjay Patel, the Chief Commercial Officer at England and Wales Cricket Board. It was introduced to the audience to attract their attention to the sport. The game was launched for both men and women. Despite the pandemic breakout, the first edition was played in 2021. The second edition will be starting soon.
Format of Fantasy Hundered’s Man
Format of Hundred Fantasy Cricket Tournament:
Each side plays 100 balls
Powerplay is of 25 balls
After playing 10 balls, batsmen change their sides
Bowlers are allowed to choose to either bowl 10 or five balls in one go
A Bowler is allowed to deliver 20 max balls
During powerplay, two fielders are allowed outside the initial circle.
Like IPL, the team is allowed to call time outs
Each bowling side gets a time out of 2.5 minutes
After missing a catch, the non-striker must return to their original position
A no-ball in the Hundred is equal to two runs, and a free hit.
Details of the ECB run
Details of the Hundred Men’s Competition of 2022 The Hundred tournament year the game will be played in numerous cities in the United Kingdom.
Number of Teams
There are eight teams in the Hundred Fantasy Cricket. Here are the names:
Manchester Originals,
London Spirit,
Northern Superchargers,
Southern Brave,
Birmingham Phoenix,
Trent Rockets,
Welsh Fire,
Oval Invincibles
Plays to watch while playing Hundred Fantasy Cricket:
This tournament will surely throw the limelight on the new talent. Indeed there are few players from whom fantasy sports fans have high expectations in the second edition of Fantasy Cricket.
Here are the few players to watch out for:
Finn Allen plays for Birmingham Phoenix. He is a young cricket player from New Zealand. He makes a high score, by hitting the balls on the boundary.
Super Chargers, Manjeeb Ur Rahman is a young off-break bowler from Afghanistan. He takes wickets often in the opening over by throwing dot deliveries.
Tom Banton bats for Welsh Fire. He is a great player in terms of scoring rate and his bat speak while facing spinners.
London Spirit Josh Inglis can last long on the crease as a wicket-keeping batsman.
Broadcasting Management
FanCode will be broadcasting the Hundred Fantasy Cricket for India.
Predictions for The Hundred Cricket tournament 2022
Cricket is an unpredictable sport. Since Hundred is a new tournament, making any prediction will be quite challenging as we don’t know about anyone’s game plan. Like In the T20 format, usually, the aggressive one takes away all the spotlight. So, a team with the appropriate amount of aggression, game-changing and fit players, and is in good form, will lead the tournament. However, Southern Brave is expected to do well, this season too.
London Spirit lost their coach Shane Warne, let’s see how they will perform. We are expecting Birmingham Phoenix to do well this season as they were the runners-up last time.
Fantasy Point System
Here is the normal and bonus fantasy point system on Royal11. Normal point systems are given by assessing the performance of players. Bonus points are a great way to win The Hundred Fantasy Cricket league.
Normal Points
Normal fantasy points are based on the performance of the player on-field.
Bonus Points
Fantasy Points for the extraordinary performance of the player.
Conclusion
Hence, the Hundred is in the race of becoming the most popular small Fantasy cricket format. The Hundred will be hosted in August 2022. Be ready with your game plan for this format. Research about players, format, and teams to ace the new Fantasy Cricket league.
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