How to Get an Online Cricket ID

Before you message: have these ready

The chat goes faster when you are not hunting for things halfway through. None of this is difficult, but each item is something we end up waiting on.

How to get an online cricket ID in four steps

Here is the sequence in full. Every ID we have issued followed this order, and the order exists for a reason: the desk cannot create a login on the exchange until it knows who the login is for, and the exchange cannot credit a balance until a deposit has landed.

1. Open the chat and name the exchange. Use the WhatsApp button on this page or the link on our official channels page. Your first message can be as short as "Hi, I want a Skyexchange ID." A person replies from the same number. If the reply comes from a different number, or asks you to move to another app, stop there.
2. Send your name and confirm your age. The desk asks for your name as you want it on the account and asks you to confirm you are 18 or older. It reads your mobile number from the chat. It may ask where you are based, because availability depends on jurisdiction and the desk would rather find out now than after a deposit.
3. Make the first deposit by the route the desk gives you. The desk explains the current route for your chosen exchange, usually UPI or a bank transfer, and states the current minimum in the chat. You pay, take a screenshot with the reference number visible, and send it back. No figure printed anywhere else counts, including on this site.
4. Receive your ID and log in. Once the payment is confirmed on the desk side, your ID and the login link arrive in the same chat. You open the link, type the ID exactly as sent, and set a password of your own on the platform. From that point you are live.

Everything else on this page is detail on those four steps, because the detail is where people get stuck.

The chat, message by message

This is what a normal first chat looks like, with names and figures replaced. Eight messages, four from each side. The right-hand column says what is happening on the desk while you wait for the next reply.

Notice what is not in the chat. No document, no OTP, no password, no fee, no second number. If your chat has any of those, compare it with this one and stop.

What to send, and why the desk needs it

New users sometimes over-share out of nervousness, sending a photo of an ID card or a bank statement nobody asked for. Please do not. The list of what the desk actually needs is short, and anything beyond it is a warning sign about who you are talking to.

Notice what is missing. No password. No OTP. No card details. No bank login. If a chat asks for any of these, you are not talking to the desk, and our safety page explains how copycat desks get people to hand them over. If you want a ready-made first message, the cricket ID on WhatsApp page has templates for a new ID, a demo and a second exchange.

What the desk sends back

Three things, and always in the same chat you started.

First, the deposit route. That is the UPI handle or the bank details for your exchange, with the current minimum stated in plain words. The route can change, which is why we never print it and why the desk re-confirms it if a day has passed since you last asked.

Second, after the payment is confirmed, your ID. It is a short username, usually letters then digits. Copy it exactly. Capitals and zeros against the letter O catch people out more often than you would think.

Third, the login link for the exchange. On some exchanges the desk also sends an app download in the chat. Install only what arrives in that conversation. Nothing from a search result, nothing from a group forward.

What the desk does not send is a password. You create that yourself on the platform during the first login, and the desk never sees it. If you forget it later, the desk can trigger a reset from the registered number, but it cannot read it back to you, because it does not have it.

Reading the login message, line by line

The message that carries your ID is short and people skim it, then message the desk with a question it already answered. Here is what each line is for, what to copy, what to save, and what to delete once you have used it.

The ID line. A short username, letters then digits. Copy it with a long press rather than retyping it. Keep it in the chat; there is no need to write it anywhere else, and no reason to send it to anyone.

The login link. The exchange's current web address. Open it from the chat, then bookmark it from the browser. This is the only address you use. If it ever stops working, the desk posts a new one in the same chat, and the bookmark gets replaced, not searched for.

The starting password line. A one-time string the panel generated. Use it once, change it inside the panel, and then delete that one message from the chat on your side. The desk already treats it as dead. There is nothing to gain from leaving it in a chat history that lives on your phone.

The balance line. The desk confirms the deposit it credited. Check it against the panel after login. If the two numbers differ, say so in the chat with both figures, and the desk looks at the panel.

The app line, where there is one. Some exchanges share an Android app and the desk sends the file in the chat. It uses the same ID and password as the browser. Install it from that message only. If you prefer the browser, ignore the line; nothing about the ID depends on it.

The notes line. Anything specific to your exchange: a demo window, a region note, a limit figure. Read it. Most of the questions we get in the first week are answered in that line of the message the player already has.

What to keep from the whole chat is simple: all of it, except the starting password. The chat is the record of what was agreed, including any bonus condition and the cap you asked for. Six months later it is the fastest way to settle any question in either direction.

What differs by exchange

The four steps are identical on all five exchanges. What changes is small and worth knowing before you name one in the first line.

Skyexchange. A demo is available on request, so you can ask for one in the same message as the live ID if you want to look first. The desk shares an Android app in the chat for people who prefer it to the browser. The Skyexchange ID page has the detail.

Laser247. Demo on request as well. Most Laser247 players we issue to use the mobile site rather than an app, and the login link the desk sends is all you need. Session markets are the draw, so read the session guide before the first deposit if that is your plan. See the Laser247 ID page.

Lotus365. Ask the desk about a demo rather than assuming one. The login opens a wide sports list and a large casino lobby under the same ID, so tell the desk if the casino is the reason you are choosing it. The Lotus365 ID page explains the layout.

11xplay. Ask the desk about a demo. The panel is built for phones, which is why people who bet between overs on a commute pick it. Nothing changes in the chat. See the 11xplay ID page.

Reddybook. Ask the desk about a demo. A long-running name, so a lot of first messages come from people who held a Reddybook ID years ago through another desk. That old ID is not ours and cannot be recovered through us; the desk issues a fresh one. The Reddybook ID page covers the rest.

If none of that moves you, say how you play and let the desk pick. The beginner guide gets you to a choice in a few questions if you would rather decide alone.

Your first deposit

The first deposit is the step where people get nervous, so it helps to know exactly what a normal one looks like. The desk gives you the route. You pay from your own account, in your own name. You screenshot the confirmation screen, not the pending screen. You send the screenshot to the same chat. The desk matches it and confirms.

That is all. There is no second step where someone asks you to pay again "to activate" the account, and there is no processing fee collected in the chat. Those two phrases are the fingerprints of a copycat, and our guide to spotting copycat exchange sites goes through the others.

Later deposits follow the same route unless the desk tells you otherwise, and withdrawals are requested in the same chat too. The deposits and withdrawals page covers both directions, and the guide on why a withdrawal is late is worth a read before you ever need it.

Getting the ID with a bank transfer instead of UPI

Most first deposits go by UPI and the four steps above assume it. If your UPI is capped for the day, your bank blocks a new payee for a cooling period, or you simply prefer a bank transfer, the process changes in three small ways.

1. Ask for bank details instead of a handle. Say so in the chat and the desk posts an account number, IFSC and account name for this deposit. Like the UPI handle, these are fresh each time and should never be taken from an old message.
2. Pay by IMPS where you can. IMPS lands in minutes. NEFT runs in batches and can take longer, which matters before a match. Pay from the account in your own name, the same name you gave the desk, because the credit is matched by name and amount rather than by a UPI reference.
3. Send the transfer confirmation, not the pending screen. The screenshot needs the amount, the beneficiary name, the date and time, and the transaction or UTR number your bank shows. Add the account name you paid in the message. The desk matches it against the incoming credit, which takes a little longer than a UPI match because there is no single reference to search.

Everything after that is identical. The ID and login link come back in the same chat once the credit is matched, and later deposits can go by UPI again once your cap resets. For withdrawals above your UPI limit the desk often uses a bank transfer in the other direction, and the same name rule applies: the account must be in the name on the ID.

One thing that does not change: no cards. If a chat offers a card payment link to "speed up activation", it is not the desk.

When a step fails: fixes in the order the desk tries them

Most chats run straight through. When one does not, it is nearly always one of the eight things below, and the fix is usually on your side of the screen. Try the fix first, then message the desk with what you tried.

One pattern covers all eight rows. The fix is always in the original chat, never in a new one. A second chat on a new number is how a small delay becomes a real loss.

Your first login

Open the link the desk sent. Type the ID exactly, capitals included. The platform asks you to set a password on first entry. Choose one you do not use anywhere else and keep it off WhatsApp entirely, including the desk chat.

Once you are in, do three unhurried things before you place anything. Check that the balance matches your deposit. Find the cricket section and open a live or upcoming match so you can see what a back price and a lay price look like side by side. Then find your account statement, because that is where you will look when you want to know what happened.

If back and lay mean nothing to you yet, stop here and read back, lay and session markets explained. It uses one imaginary over and takes less time than losing a bet you did not understand.

Most people use the exchange in a phone browser and it works fine that way. Where an app exists, the desk sends it. Bookmark the login link the desk gave you rather than searching for the exchange by name, because search results are where copycat sites live.

The first ten minutes after login

Ten minutes of setup on day one removes most of the messages we get in week one. Do these in order, with the match not yet started.

1. Change the password. Something new, not reused, written down somewhere you will find in six months. The desk saw the starting password once. After this, nobody but you has it.
2. Bookmark the login link. From the chat, not from a search. Name the bookmark something you will recognise. This is the address you use from now on, and the desk posts a new one if the exchange moves.
3. Save the desk number. Check it against the official channels page, then save it as a contact. Future messages go to the contact, which stops a group number ever getting a reply from you by mistake.
4. Ask for the deposit cap. One message in the chat with the figure you decided before you started. The desk applies it in the panel. Raising it later is a conversation, which is the point.
5. Open the account statement. Find it once now so you know where it is. It is the page you screenshot if a settlement ever looks wrong, and the page to read once a month for anything you do not recognise.
6. Find the unmatched tab. Place nothing yet. Just find where unmatched bets show, because the first time a bet seems to vanish, this is where it is.
7. Look at one market without betting. Open a live match, find the session line, and watch it move for an over. Blue is back, pink is lay. Do this before any money is at risk and the first real bet feels ordinary.

Seven steps, ten minutes, and the ID is set up the way a player with three seasons behind them has it. The limits guide explains step four in more depth if you want it.

From demo to live ID

If you asked for a demo first, turning it into a live ID is shorter than the first chat was. The desk already has your name and number.

1. Say you are ready, in the same chat. One line: "Ready to go live on the demo exchange." If you want a different exchange from the one you tried, say that instead, and the desk treats it as a fresh ID.
2. Get the route and the minimum. The desk posts the deposit handle and confirms the current figure for the exchange, exactly as it would for a first-time player. Pay and send the screenshot with the reference.
3. Receive either a converted login or a new one. On most exchanges the desk switches money on for the same username you practised with, and your demo history is cleared. On a few, the exchange issues a fresh username, and the desk sends it with the login link. Either way nothing you learned is lost.
4. Log in and run the ten-minute setup. The password you set on the demo may or may not carry over, depending on which case you got. Set it again anyway. Then the cap, the bookmark, the statement.

One warning from the desk's side. A demo teaches the panel, not the feeling of money on a position. Keep the first live stakes small for the first few matches, even if the demo went well. Especially if the demo went well.

Your first withdrawal, step by step

A how-to page that stops at the first deposit is only half a how-to. Here is the return trip, which is the step that tells you most about the desk you chose.

1. Check for open bets. Open positions hold exposure against your balance. Let them settle, or close them by taking the other side, before you ask. The desk will only tell you to wait otherwise.
2. Check any bonus condition. If a credit was added on the first deposit, the condition the desk quoted applies to that part of the balance. Your own deposit and winnings on it are not held by it.
3. Send one message with the amount and the destination. The UPI handle or bank account, in your own name, the same name as on the ID. For example: "Withdraw the amount below to the UPI handle below, name Rahul Mehta."
4. Wait for the confirmation. The desk checks the three things above, debits the balance in the panel, and sends the transfer. During a live match this happens after the market settles, so ask in the morning if you need the money before a game.
5. Confirm receipt in the chat. A screenshot of the credit in your bank app closes the loop and gives both sides a record. If the money is slower than the desk said, reply in the same chat with the time and the amount, and nothing else.

The two things that hold a first withdrawal are a name that does not match and a bonus condition that was never read. Both are avoidable on day one, which is why the ten-minute setup asks for a cap and the sample chat shows the name being given carefully. The late withdrawal guide covers everything else that can slow it.

Mistakes we see every week

None of these are stupid. They are the natural shortcuts a busy person takes, and each one costs time or money.

Getting an ID for someone else

Every week someone asks for an ID for a brother, a friend, or a group of colleagues who want to bet on the office sweep. The answer is the same each time, and the reason is worth a minute.

An ID is tied to one number and one name, and the name is the one a withdrawal must go to. If you get an ID for your brother on your number, every withdrawal goes to your bank account, every reset comes to your phone, and the exchange sees his phone and yours on one login and pauses it. Nobody did anything wrong and everyone is annoyed. The fix is for him to message the desk from his own number, which takes the same four steps and gets him his own chat record.

Groups are the same at scale. Five colleagues wanting to bet together need five IDs, not one shared one, and the desk is happy to issue five in an afternoon. Each person messages separately. If one person wants to collect and place for the others, that is a shared login in disguise, and the exchange treats it as one.

There is a version of this that is legitimate, and it has a different name. If you want to issue IDs to other people as a business, you are asking for an agent or master login, which comes with responsibilities to the exchange and is a separate conversation with the desk. It is not what a player needs, and the online cricket ID page explains how that layer of the panel works before you decide you want to be in it.

Parents asking on behalf of a son or daughter get a shorter answer. If the person is under 18, no ID, from anyone. If they are over 18, they message the desk themselves.

Match day: the fast path

If you are reading this an hour before a toss, skip everything above and do this. It is the same four steps compressed, with the waits taken out where they can be.

• One message, everything in it. Exchange, name, 18 plus, and the state you are in. Saves two round trips.
• UPI app already open and the amount decided. Pay the handle the moment it arrives, from your own account.
• Screenshot the transaction details screen, not the success animation. Send it with the words "paid, UTR visible".
• Expect a queue. Deposits arrive in a burst before the toss. The desk works them in order. A second message does not move you up it.
• Paste the ID, do not type it. Set the password. Check the balance. That is enough for tonight.
• Do the ten-minute setup tomorrow. The cap, the bookmark, the statement. Tonight, bet small, because you have not looked at the panel yet.

Next time, start in the afternoon. Every row on this list is a wait you would not have had.

Moving from another provider to this desk

A good number of first messages start with "I already have an ID from someone else." Sometimes the other desk has gone quiet, sometimes the withdrawals got slow, sometimes the number changed one too many times. Here is what can and cannot be done.

An ID issued by another desk sits under that desk's master login in the exchange panel. We cannot see it, reset it, recover it, or move it under ours. Nobody can, short of the exchange itself, and the exchange deals with the desk that issued it. So the first thing to do is get your money out of the old ID while the old desk is still answering. Let open bets settle, withdraw to the account in your name, and keep the screenshots.

Then message our desk as a new player, the same four steps as anyone else, naming the exchange you want. It can be the same exchange you were on before. The panel allows one login per person per desk, not per exchange, so a fresh ID under our master is not a duplicate of the old one under theirs. Tell the desk you held an ID elsewhere, because it saves a question about the name on your bank account, which is already set up for withdrawals.

What if the old desk has stopped replying and there is balance stuck on the old ID? We cannot get it back for you, and any desk that says it can is about to ask you for a fee. The safety page sets out the realistic steps, which mostly come down to records and patience. What we can do is make sure it does not happen twice, by applying the cap you ask for and by being on the same number next season.

One last thing. Do not give the old desk's chat to the new one, or the other way round. Neither of us needs it, and a chat history is the one thing you hold that nobody else should.

Asking for a new cricket ID when you already have one

"New cricket ID" means two different things in the chats we see, and it helps to be clear about which one you want.

If you want an ID on a second exchange, that is a new ID in the proper sense. Say so in your existing chat: "I have a Lotus365 ID, I would like a Laser247 ID as well." The desk runs the same short process, and because it already knows you, the questions are fewer. Each exchange has its own balance and its own login, and the one ID or many guide weighs up when a second one is worth having.

If you have lost access to an ID you already hold, that is a recovery, and asking for a "new" one creates a duplicate the exchange will eventually flag. Message the desk from the registered number, say the ID is lost, and it confirms your identity and sends the ID back. If the number itself is gone, write to us through the help page and we will explain the route for that exchange.

If you are coming back after a long gap, you probably do not need a new ID at all. The old login is dormant, not dead. Message the desk from the registered number, say which exchange, and ask for it to be switched back on. Deposit, and you are where you left off with the same username and the same history.

One more case: you want to try a different exchange before committing. Ask for a demo login on it. The demo cricket ID page explains what is switched off in a demo and how it becomes a full ID when you decide.

Ready?

Open the chat, name your exchange, and let the desk run the four steps with you. If anything you are asked does not match what you have just read, pause and check the official channels page before you continue.