A cricket price is a running estimate of how the chase or the innings will end. Wickets, the run rate and interruptions each push that estimate around. This page takes those forces one at a time.
In a limited-overs chase the question is whether the batting side can reach the target with the overs and wickets it has left. A run scored helps a little; a wicket removes a whole slice of what the side still has to spend. That is why one dismissal can move a price more than a big over. bet365 lists outright and in-play cricket markets on its cricket hub, with Bet Builder, Cash Out, Live Streaming and Match Live named as available. The rest of this page is about the price logic underneath, which works the same way wherever you read it.
These are general mechanics of in-play cricket pricing across the betting industry, not a list of markets offered on any particular fixture. Check the event page for what is actually open.
The biggest single jolt. Losing a set batter costs both the runs that batter might have added and one of ten wickets, so the chasing side's price lengthens at once.
A run of dot balls lifts the rate needed per over. The price drifts slowly with no wicket at all, because the task is getting harder ball by ball.
Fifteen or twenty runs in one over pull the required rate down sharply, and the price shortens, though rarely as much as a wicket moves it the other way.
Markets are often suspended during a break. If the match resumes with a revised target, the price reopens to reflect the new arithmetic.
Invented figures for a side chasing 170 in twenty overs. They show the direction and rough size of each move, not a real match.
With all ten wickets in hand and a par target, the chasing side is close to even money. A 100-unit stake would return 195.
A strong powerplay keeps the required rate under nine an over, so the price shortens.
Three wickets for six runs. The target has not changed, but the side now has far fewer batters to reach it, and the price nearly doubles.
A recovery partnership brings the rate back within reach. The price falls again, though not to where it began.
Rain-reduced games use revised targets, and readers are often surprised by how a bet settled. The market rules usually answer this before anyone else needs to.
Many cricket markets need a set number of overs to be bowled for bets to stand. Read that clause in the market rules before you stake.
If you still need a review, record the fixture, the over, the score at the time and the exact market name before contacting the operator.
The feature listing below is the operator-specific part of this page. The price mechanics apply to in-play cricket wherever you read a price.
Outright and in-play cricket markets are listed, with Bet Builder, Cash Out, Live Streaming and Match Live named as available on cricket.
A tool listed for the sport may not appear on every match or every market. The event page is the reference.
The chase figures above are invented to teach the mechanism. They are not drawn from any real price feed.
These words describe the resources a batting side has left, which is what a live price is really measuring.
The runs per over a chasing side needs from now on. Needing 100 from ten overs means a required rate of ten.
How many batters can still be dismissed before the innings ends. At 68 for 4, a side has six wickets in hand.
A delivery from which no run is scored. Several in a row push the required rate up.
A new target set after overs are lost to weather, calculated by a published method so the chase stays fair.
Short replies on why a cricket price behaves the way it does during an innings.
Each dot ball raises the required rate, so the chase gets harder even in a quiet over and the price drifts.
A boundary adds four or six runs. A wicket removes a batter for good, shrinking what the side can still score.
Yes, broadly. A Cash Out offer is based on the current price, so a wicket against your side lowers it within seconds.
Usually not. Video tends to trail the action, so a wicket may already be priced in before you see it fall.
In-play explainers