Market load is the Indian bettor's name for where the money is going: which side of a match, a session or a fancy line is taking the heavier bets. Checking it is easy. Reading it correctly is the part most guides skip.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
The plainest sign. Between balls, with no wicket and no boundary, the back price on one team keeps shortening: 1.85, 1.82, 1.78. Nothing on the field explains it. Money does. When one side is being backed heavily, the market makes it pay less.
On a fancy line the same thing shows up in the rate before the line itself moves — the run bhav on one side slips below 100 while the figure stays put.
Exchange-style screens show how much has been matched on each outcome, and often how much is waiting at each price. A large matched figure on one team, or a stack of unmatched money queued at a price, is the load in plain numbers. Of the three signs, this is the one that counts rupees rather than inferring them.
If one site offers a team at 1.70 and another at 1.60, somebody's book is heavier. The shorter price is usually where the load is. This needs two screens open and is slower than the first two, but it catches a load that one site is hiding by not moving its price.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
Every price change has one of two causes. Either something happened in the match, or somebody bet.
| what you see | what caused it | what it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| price jumps right after a wicket, a big over or a review | the match | new information about the cricket |
| price drifts over several balls with nothing on the field | the load | what bettors are doing |
| price moves before the toss after team news | the match | new information, if the news is real |
| price moves in the last minutes before the toss with no news | the load | what bettors are doing |
The first and third rows carry cricket. The second and fourth carry opinion. A load is not a prediction; it is a record of other people's bets, and other people are wrong all the time. A flood of money does not make a favourite any likelier to win. It only makes it pay less.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
It is useful for price, not for picking a side.
Mid-match, two prices on screen
Mid-match, two prices on screen
Where the money is going — which side of a market is taking the most bets. It shows as a price shortening without a cricket reason, or as matched money on an exchange screen.
Watch the price between balls, read the matched amounts on each side if shown, and compare the price with another site.
No. It records what bettors did. It changes the price, not the match.
Most likely load: more money on one side. A price that moves right after a wicket or a big over is moving on the match instead.
