Cricket Betting Rules: Rain, DLS, Ties & Void Bets

First Rule: The Panel's Market Rules Always Win

Everything on this page describes how cricket markets are commonly settled on exchange-style platforms. It is meant to help you understand the reasoning, not to replace the rules attached to the market you actually bet on. Every market on your Tiger Exchange panel has its own rules, usually shown through a small "rules" or information icon beside the market name. If anything on this page differs from those rules, the panel's rules are the ones that apply to your bet.

Get into the habit of opening the rules for any market type you have not used before, especially sessions, player runs and specials. It takes thirty seconds and prevents most settlement disputes before they start. If something is unclear, ask support before you place the bet rather than after the result.

Key Settlement Terms You Need to Know

• Settled — the market has a result and winning bets are paid, losing bets are lost.
• Void — the bet is cancelled and your stake (or liability on a lay) is returned as if the bet never happened.
• Official result — the result declared by the match officials and governing body, including results decided by DLS or a super over.
• Completed market — a market whose outcome was already decided before an interruption, such as a toss or a first-innings six-over session that was finished.
• Reduced overs — a match or innings shortened from its scheduled length, usually because of weather or bad light.
• Palpable error — an obviously wrong price or market set-up; bets on it may be voided under the platform's rules.

If you are new to exchange markets in general, our guide to back and lay betting explains how stakes and liabilities work, which makes void and settlement outcomes easier to follow.

Typical Settlement at a Glance

The table summarises the most common situations. Read the sections below for the reasoning behind each row.

Abandoned Matches and "No Result"

When rain or another interruption means a limited-overs match cannot reach the minimum overs needed for a result, officials declare it abandoned or "no result". Under the standard playing conditions for international cricket, a T20 generally needs at least five overs per side and a one-day match at least twenty overs per side to produce a result, though competition rules can vary.

On exchange-style platforms, the match odds market is typically voided when there is no official result. Your back stakes are returned and lay liabilities are released. The logic is simple: nobody won, so no winning bet can be paid.

Markets that were already fully decided before the abandonment usually stand. The toss market is the clearest example — once the coin has landed, that bet is settled whether or not a ball is bowled. A completed first-innings session, such as runs in the first six overs, is normally settled too, because that outcome was fixed before the rain arrived.

Session Settlement When Overs Are Reduced

This is the area that confuses most players, so it is worth slowing down. Session (or "fancy") markets ask how many runs a team will have at a fixed point — for example, at the end of the 6th, 10th or 15th over. When overs are reduced, the typical rules work like this:

• Session already completed: if the 6-over mark had been passed before the rain, the 6-over session is settled on the actual score at that point, regardless of what happens later.
• Session no longer possible: if the innings is cut to 12 overs, a 15-over session can never be reached. It is usually voided and stakes returned.
• Session still possible after reduction: if the innings is cut to 15 overs, a 10-over session can still be completed. Many platforms let it stand and settle it normally; some void sessions affected by any reduction made before they were completed. This is exactly where the panel's market rules matter most.
• Innings ends naturally early: if a team is bowled out in the 14th over, a 15-over session is commonly settled on the final total, because the innings finished by cricketing means, not by an interruption.

For a full explanation of how session lines are priced and traded, see our cricket session betting guide.

Ties and Super Overs

A tie in limited-overs cricket — both teams finishing on exactly the same score — is now usually followed by a super over to decide the winner. That raises two questions for bettors.

Match odds in a tie

In most limited-overs competitions the match odds market is settled on the official winner, and when a super over decides the match, the super over winner is the official winner. So a back bet on that team is paid. If no super over is played and the match is officially declared a tie, platforms typically apply a dead-heat or void rule set out in the market rules.

The "tied match" market

Where a separate "will the match be tied?" market is offered, it is normally settled on the score at the end of regulation overs. If the scores were level before the super over, "yes" wins, regardless of who wins the super over.

Sessions and player runs in a super over

Runs scored in a super over are usually excluded from innings sessions, team totals and player-runs markets, because those markets refer to the scheduled innings. Again, check the panel's rules for the specific market.

Retired Hurt, Substitutes and Player Markets

Player markets — runs, boundaries, wickets — bring their own edge cases.

• Retired hurt: if a batter retires hurt and does not return, player-runs markets are commonly settled on the runs scored at the moment of retirement. If they return and continue, all their runs count.
• Player does not bat: if the player you backed never comes to the crease, player-runs bets are typically void, though some markets settle them at zero once the innings ends. Check the rules.
• Player not in the playing XI: bets on a player who is not named in the final eleven are usually void.
• Concussion or tactical substitutes: runs or wickets by a replacement player normally count only for markets on that replacement, not the player they replaced.
• Penalty runs and extras: these count towards team totals and session runs but not towards an individual batter's score.

Test Matches: Draws, Follow-Ons and Declarations

Test cricket works differently because a draw is a normal result, not an abandonment. The match odds market in a Test usually has three outcomes — team A, team B or the draw — and a rain-ruined Test that ends without a winner is settled as a draw, not voided. The only time a Test winner market is typically voided is if the match is abandoned before it properly begins.

Declarations and follow-ons do not cause voids either. If a captain declares at 380 for 6, the innings total is 380 and session or innings-runs markets are settled on that figure. Player runs at the declaration count as the batter's final score.

How to Check and Query a Settlement

1. Read the market rules before betting

   Open the information icon beside the market on your panel and read the section on interruptions, reduced overs and ties.

2. Check your bet history after the match

   Your statement shows each bet as won, lost or void, along with the amount credited or returned.

3. Compare with the official scorecard

   Confirm the official result, the score at the session point and whether overs were reduced before that point.

4. Message support with specifics

   If something looks wrong, send your username, the match, the market name and the bet time. Specific queries are answered much faster than "my bet is wrong".

5. Allow time for official corrections

   Occasionally scorecards are corrected after a match. Settlement may be adjusted to the corrected official figure under the platform's rules.