About CricketChallenge - an editorial desk for fantasy cricket

CricketChallenge publishes editorial coverage of fantasy cricket. We do not run contests, host entries, or process payments. The platform whose app we evaluate is the operator; we are the editorial reading around it.

Our editorial team works from a small set of locations in India. We are a desk, not a newsroom - every piece is written by an editor and reviewed by a second editor before publication.

• Independent of the platforms we cover We do not accept payment for editorial coverage. Affiliate links, where present, are labelled.
• Honest about uncertainty We publish a confirmed / probable / unknown evidence key on every preview.
• Open about corrections We update articles and add a dated correction note at the top when we get something wrong.

An editorial desk is the part of a news organisation that writes and edits stories. It is distinct from the commercial team, the ad-sales team, the subscriptions team, and the operations team. The desk is the part of the organisation whose job is to publish the next story and to make sure it is correct, sourced, and dated.

When CricketChallenge calls itself an editorial desk, it is making two promises. The first promise is that every article on the site has been written by an editor and reviewed by a second editor before publication. The second promise is that the editor who wrote the article is named on the page, that the last-updated date is on the page, and that a correction to the article will be visible at the top of the page rather than hidden in a footnote.

The desk structure also shapes what we publish. We publish match-readiness guides because we believe Indian fans benefit from a clear pre-match reading before they pick their squads. We publish scoring explainers because most platforms publish a rules page, but few fans read it end-to-end. We publish captaincy frameworks because the captain pick is the single biggest call in any fantasy squad and most fans do not have a framework for it. We publish cautious app reviews because there is no editorial reading of the partner programme elsewhere on the Indian web.

We do not publish five-thousand-word reviews of an app we have not used. We do not publish rumours as news. We do not publish a story that names a player without verifying the source. We do not publish an offer that we cannot verify against the platform’s own page. Each rule is enforced by the desk, not by a separate compliance team, which means the editor who writes the piece is also the editor who decides whether it stays.

The desk is small. We work from a handful of locations in India and we publish on a schedule we can sustain. We would rather publish four articles a week and have them all be correct than publish twenty articles a week and have half of them carry corrections. This is the editorial standard we hold ourselves to, and the standard we want our readers to hold us to.

If you have read this far, you are probably the kind of reader we publish for. The match guides and captaincy explainers on this site are written for someone who wants to make a better decision today, and a better decision tomorrow, and who knows that the difference between the two is the work they put in between matches. The desk is here to support that work.