All you need to know about Hitwicket Arenas

  • Accordion Icon Introduction

    Ever wondered how to put your cricketing knowledge and strategic thinking to test? Well, Hitwicket Arenas is just the right platform that caters to your musings - strategize and play! Start playing by following these 3 simple steps -

    1. Select your best playing XI
    2. Find opponent
    3. Choose your team boosts
    4. Set your winning strategy and play!

  • Accordion Icon Arenas Players

    Much like real cricket - players are of 4 kinds - Wicket Keepers, Batsmen, Bowlers, and All-rounders. Each player comes with a unique set of skills, which are -

    • Batting star determines the batting skill
    • Bowling star determines the bowling skill
    • Wicket-keeping star determines the wicket-keeping skill
    • Elite Academy Traits (EA) These are the Passive Abilities of a player that act as an additional boost over the base skills that they come with, and are an important aspect of any player.

    There are two types of EA-

    • Tier I EA - This depends on the position (in the lineup) where the player is bowling or batting and has definite outcome. For example, if one of your players has a ‘Top Order’ trait and if you position the player wisely in the lineup, the player will get a boost
    • Tier II EA - This depends on the state of the match. For example, if you are chasing and have a player whose passive ability is ‘Chaser’ then the player will get a boost

    The EA can be further categorized in two categories:

    Batting favoured

    Name Condition Boost
    Top Order
    (Tier I)    		 If he bats in the top 3
    • Level 1: +3%
    • Level 2: +6%
    • Level 3: +9%
    Middle Order
    (Tier I)    		 If he bats at #4, 5 or 6
    • Level 1: +3%
    • Level 2: +6%
    • Level 3: +9%
    Lower Order
    (Tier I)    		 If he bats at #7 or below
    • Level 1: +5%
    • Level 2: +10%
    • Level 3: +15%
    Dasher
    (Tier II)    		 If he bats in first 5 overs
    • Level 1: +5%
    • Level 2: +10%
    • Level 3: +15%
    Finisher
    (Tier II)    		 If he bats in the last 5 overs
    • Level 1: +6%
    • Level 2: +9%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Chaser
    (Tier II)    		 If he bats in the second innings
    • Level 1: +4%
    • Level 2: +8%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Flat Track Bully
    (Tier II)    		 If you bat on all Flat or >=9% batting pitches
    • Level 1: +6%
    • Level 2: +9%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Maestro
    (Tier II)
    • Level 1: For every 6 balls faced
    • Level 2: For every 5 balls faced
    • Level 3: For every 4 balls faced
    • Level 1: +2%
    • Level 2: +2%
    • Level 3: +2%

    Bowling favoured

    Name Condition Boost
    Opening Overs
    (Tier I)    		 If he bowls in the first 5 overs
    • Level 1: +3%
    • Level 2: +6%
    • Level 3: +9%
    Middle Overs
    (Tier I)    		 If he bowls in the middle 10 overs
    • Level 1: +3%
    • Level 2: +6%
    • Level 3: +9%
    Death Overs
    (Tier I)    		 If he bowls in the last 5 overs
    • Level 1: +5%
    • Level 2: +10%
    • Level 3: +15%
    Confidence
    (Tier II)    		 For every wicket taken by the bowler
    • Level 1: +5%
    • Level 2: +10%
    • Level 3: +15%
    Rhythm
    (Tier II)    		 For each over bowler on the trot
    • Level 1: +6%
    • Level 2: +9%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Left Breaker
    (Tier II)    		 If bowling to a left handed batsman
    • Level 1: +4%
    • Level 2: +8%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Blitz
    (Tier II)    		 If bowling in the first innings
    • Level 1: +6%
    • Level 2: +9%
    • Level 3: +12%
    Gladiator
    (Tier II)    		 If the current run rate >=9
    • Level 1: +2%
    • Level 2: +2%
    • Level 3: +2%

  • Accordion Icon Creating Your Team

    Every event comes with a set of Players Pool. All users will have to choose from the same Players pool, so be cautious when you choose your best XI. Make sure they fit your strategy!

    Every team will have only 100 points to choose players from, so make sure you have a balanced team like 1 Wicket Keeper, 3-5 Batsmen, 1-3 all-rounders and 3-5 Bowlers.

    To select your playing XI:

    1. Click on Set Lineup button inside the event box
    2. Choose your desired XI by clicking on the tick-box on each of the player card
    3. Click on Next button to save your selection

  • Accordion Icon Managing Your Team

    Managing your team well will help you reap great benefits. Ensure that each player is put in the designated position in the lineup so that they perform to their best. The position of the player is determined by EA traits (ref to the ‘Arena Players’ section for more details).

    To manage and alter the lineup, click on Set Lineup button inside the event box

      Setting Batting Lineup
    1. You can change the position of the player by clicking on the up & down arrow
    2. Select the powerplay overs by clicking on ‘Powerplay’ box
    3. Select the aggression for given set of overs by using the aggression slider
      Setting Bowling Lineup
    1. You can assign certain over to a particular bowler by clicking on the bowler and then clicking on the over number you want to assign
    2. Click on Next and choose the Toss preference
    3. Save the lineup

  • Accordion Icon Strategic Elements

    Here are a bunch of strategy elements in the game that will come in handy when you are playing

    1. Powerplay: Powerplay overs provide a batsman a boost of 6% during the length of powerplay. Powerplay lasts for 5 overs and cannot be changed while the match is in progress - so choose wisely!
    2. Batting Aggression: The chances of scoring runs or taking a wicket is dependent on the star difference between the batsman and the bowler, but these chances can be controlled to a certain extent by managing the batting aggression - so use it wisely if you wish to have the outcome in your favor.
      Batting aggression is of 5 kinds -
      1. Ultra-agressive
      2. Aggressive
      3. Neutral
      4. Defensive
      5. Ultra-defensive
      The above are in decreasing order of aggression. Higher aggression would increase the chances of scoring more runs (boundaries) as well as increase the chances of losing wickets. Lower aggression would decrease the chances of losing wickets as well as decrease the chances of scoring more runs.
        3. Both Powerplay and Batting Aggression can be altered through two places:
      1. From the Set Lineup batting order page
      2. On the Pre-match Page when opponent is found

Rules of Tournaments

  • Accordion Icon Rules of Free Tournaments

    • Tournaments will run for 2 hours daily from 31st Aug - 2nd Sept
    • A user can set the lineup for a tournament at any given point of time till the tournament does not end
    • Leaderboard Ranking is calculated based on the no. of matches a user has won. In the event of a tie, user with higher net run rate will be declared as the winner
    • The player pool, player credits, team boosts, match preparation time and the no. of matches allowed to play is the same for every participant for that tournament
    • In the unlikely event where a user fails to set the strategies within the given match preparation time, default values of Powerplay and Team Boost will be applied - these values are predetermined

*Note

The Tournaments and(or) sweepstakes are held by Hitwicket Arenas and are not in any way affiliated, supported or promoted by Apple or Google Play or any other organization.