KhelKing World Cup betting guide: cricket tournament markets

Every World Cup match has pre-match and live markets, and the outrights stay open from the first game to the final. Which ones are open at a given moment depends on how far the tournament has gone.

The outright market lists every team with a decimal price. A ₹1,000 bet on a team at 6.00 returns ₹6,000, stake included, if it wins the final. The money stays tied up until the trophy is decided, which in an ODI World Cup is about six weeks. If your team goes out early, the bet is lost at that point, even though the market settles after the final.

• Divide 100 by the price to read the implied chance. 6.00 is about 17%, 4.00 is 25% and 2.50 is 40%.
• Add up every team's implied chance on a bookmaker and the total comes to more than 100%. The margin guide explains the excess.
• Outright prices are usually longest before the first ball. An early bet locks in a bigger price and carries more uncertainty.

Outright odds move on results and news, and they don't react to every ball. A win over a strong side shortens a team's price. A heavy defeat, an injury to a star player or a washout that costs points pushes it out. Prices move hardest once the knockout bracket is set, because each team's path to the final is fixed. Match odds work on a different clock and change ball by ball once a game is live.

• Squad announcements and injury news before the tournament.
• Group results and net run rate as the table takes shape. The net run rate guide shows the sums.
• Rain-hit games where the points are shared.
• The semi-final draw, which sets who meets whom.

These pay on the most runs or wickets over the whole World Cup, not one match. Players whose teams go deep get more innings, so top-three batters from likely semi-finalists usually lead the betting. Openers and number threes face more balls than the lower order. Ties can happen. Under the betting rules, a tie with no tie-breaker is settled as a dead heat, which pays a share of the winnings.

The same market names appear in both events, and the format changes how they play out. The next men's ODI World Cup is in 2027, hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, with 14 teams.

Match odds follow the official result, including a DLS result in a shortened game. A match with no result is void, and the stake goes back to your balance. A session is void if none of its overs is bowled, or if the overs are cut after that market opened, unless the result is already decided. One washout doesn't settle an outright or top-player bet, although the shared points can move their prices.

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   Step 01

   Log in to your KhelKing ID from your bookmark.

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   Step 02

   Open cricket and pick the World Cup.

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   Step 03

   Choose the outright markets for the champion, semi-finalists or top players, or open a single match for match odds, toss and sessions.

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   Step 04

   Tap a price, enter your stake and check the return on the bet slip.

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   Step 05

   Confirm, then follow the bet in your open bets until it settles.

Most of them come from how long a tournament runs, and few come from any one match.

• Putting a large share of the budget into outrights, which ties the money up for weeks.
• Backing a favourite out of loyalty instead of looking at the price.
• Ignoring venue and conditions, which matter more in ODIs where pitches have time to wear.
• Raising stakes in the knockouts to make up for group-stage losses.
• Using a so-called World Cup ID from an agent instead of your own KhelKing ID.