Dream11.com Launches World’s 1st Graphical Fantasy Cricket Game.

June 3, 2009 - PRLog -- Pune: To provide users with a complete Fantasy Cricket experience, Dream11 Gaming Pvt. Ltd. today announced the launch of Dream11.com, which offers the World’s 1st Graphical Fantasy Cricket Game. With the upcoming T20 World Cup, Dream11.com offers cricket enthusiasts an opportunity to create their Dream11 by selecting their favourite cricketers from across the world, in a graphically rich user interface and earn points depending on how those cricketers perform in real life matches.

While Dream11 users compete with each other for the top spot on the leaderboard, features like Live Scores, News Updates, Player Profiles, Statistics and Standings assist them in managing their virtual teams. On Dream11.com users can challenge competitors as well as connect with friends over cricket using the Dream11 Web Messenger, Scraps and other community features. For more discerning consumers, the widget-based Web 2.0 portal will soon offer personalization tools which will enable them to customize content on their home pages.

Commenting on the idea behind Dream11.com and the potential of Fantasy Cricket as an industry, Harsh Jain, Founder & CMD, said, “Dream11.com was conceptualized to provide users with an exceptional Fantasy Cricket experience. Fantasy Sports is a huge market globally and considering the packed upcoming cricket calendar, we believe that the time is just right for Indian audiences to connect with Fantasy Cricket. We assure our users of the best ever Fantasy Cricket interface and pledge our commitment to constantly innovate in this category. ”

Fantasy Sports is a $4.48 billion industry in the U.S. and Canada alone, with an estimated number of over 60 million active players worldwide, some of who have been playing the game for over 9 years spending about 5.2 hours per week managing their teams, and an average of 34 minutes per day "thinking" about fantasy sports.

With cricket fans all geared up for the upcoming tournaments, Dream11.com, currently in Beta, provides an ideal platform to enjoy the simulated thrill of the sport by providing its users a chance to live their cricket fantasy.

About Dream11.com:
Dream11.com is the flagship brand of Dream11 Gaming Pvt. Ltd. It is a unique and innovative Fantasy Cricket portal that offers users ’The World’s 1st Graphical Fantasy Cricket Game'. The portal also allows users to compete and connect with millions of cricket fanatics and develop ‘cricket communities’ that further adds to the fun quotient. Features like Live Scores, News, Player Profiles, Schedules, Standings, Statistics, Games and Gallery, along with Community tools, ensure a complete Fantasy Cricket experience for users.
For more information: log on to www.dream11.com

What is Fantasy Cricket?
Fantasy Cricket, a part of the Fantasy Sports Genre, provides users an opportunity to select their own virtual cricket team. Simply put, users optimize their allocated budget to create fantasy teams of real players and score points depending on how those players perform in real life matches.

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