Fantasy cricket turns a money-spinner as youngsters hook on

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Chandramouli Venkat, a young mechanical engineer, never thought his passion for cricket would one day help him to buy his dream two-wheeler.

Venkat is among the many next-gen crowd who had mastered the art of making money playfully. Welcome to the world of fantasy games.

India may have lost the first T20 match against Australia in a nail-biter, but Venkat made a comfortable Rs 1 lakh on My11circle, the online fantasy cricket game promoted by the largest online card game provider RummyCircle.

An avid cricket buff, all that Venkat did before the match started was to select his team from the list of 30 probable players from both sides and made an initial payment of Rs 50 for participating in the game.