The three people who check a slip before it goes on this site

A cricket bet has three parts that can each go wrong on their own: the price, the rules that settle it, and the stake. This site is divided the same way. Each page has one person answerable for the figures on it.

Three pale paper bet slips laid side by side on a dark walnut desk in soft window light, each slip clipped to a small brass bulldog clip, a sharpened pencil lying across the lower edge of the middle slip and a red cricket ball resting at the right edge of the frame, gentle shadows, the slips entirely blank

Before the first ball

Mrunal Karandikar — the price

Decimal, fractional and the 100-based rate; break-even percentages; the margin inside a market and how to take it out. Wrote the step-by-step guide on the home page, the odds page and the odd/even page.

Before the first ball

Aniket Pethe — the rules

What happens to a slip when it rains, when a match is tied, when the side batting second wins by wickets. Wrote the pages on handicaps, on what a bookmaker is, and on the stages of betting online from India.

Before the first ball

Shireen Vakil — the stake

How much a season of bets costs on average, what an edge has to look like to beat that, and what a wagering requirement means in rupees. Wrote the page on winning at cricket betting.

Before the first ball

How the credits work

There are no news items or match previews here, so there is nothing dated to sign. Each guide carries the name of whoever checked its numbers, and that person is the one to write to if a number is wrong.