Stake Cricket Betting: formats, markets and tournaments

Cricket betting at Stake is part of the Stake Sportsbook. It lists international series, domestic leagues and franchise competitions, with pre-match and live odds on the main markets and a deeper menu of runs, wickets and player props on major matches.

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Cricket is the sport where format and weather change the rules most, so read the match page before you bet.

Test cricket

Five days, two innings per side and three possible results: win, loss or draw. Because of the draw, match markets are three-way, and the draw price is shorter when weather or a slow pitch is a factor.

One-day internationals

Fifty overs per side, with two outcomes in most markets and a tie as a rare third. Totals, partnership props and top batter markets are popular.

Twenty20

Twenty overs per side and a three-hour match. High variance, big hitting and quick swings, so prices move fast. T20 markets include powerplay runs, sixes and top batter for each side.

Prices for the same two teams are very different in each format because the shorter the game, the more luck matters.

• Match winner: the simplest bet. Test matches include a draw option.
• Toss winner: a near coin flip, priced close to even.
• Top batter: who scores the most runs for a team or the match.
• Innings and team runs: over/under a total, often with a session or over-by-over version in Tests and T20s.
• Player runs and wickets: over/under lines on an individual's tally. If a player is not in the final eleven, the bet is normally void.
• Fall of the first wicket and opening partnerships: popular live markets.
• Series winner and tournament outrights: futures that tie up funds. IPL and World Cup winner markets open long before the first match.

Parlays combine matches into one bet. Combining cricket matches is attractive because the odds multiply, but as with every sport the margin compounds with each leg; see the sportsbook guide for how multis work.

Weather is the biggest settlement question in cricket. If a match is shortened, the result is normally decided by the Duckworth-Lewis-Stern method (DLS), and most match winner bets stand on the official result. If a match is abandoned without a result, match winner bets are normally void with stakes returned, except in Tests where an unfinished match is a draw. Total-runs and player markets often require a minimum number of overs to be bowled for the bet to stand.

Ties in limited-overs games may be decided by a Super Over. Markets say whether the Super Over counts; many do not. In Test matches, a tie is extremely rare, and a draw is far more common. Because the details vary by market and tournament, read the rule line attached to the market, especially for futures, which often assume the match is played to completion.