Disclaimer: State Laws, Risk and Not Legal Advice

• Online betting laws differ across Indian states. Check yours before you play.
• Nothing on this site is legal, tax or financial advice.
• Betting can lose money, and laying can cost more than your stake.
• Odds, stakes and rupee figures in our examples are illustrations, not offers or limits.

State laws in India

Gambling and betting in India are largely regulated at state level, and the position on online betting is not the same everywhere. Some states restrict or prohibit it. Rules can also change after new legislation or court decisions.

We do not know where you live, and we are not in a position to tell you what applies to you. Before you open an ID, read the rules for your state, and take independent legal advice if you are unsure. If betting is not permitted where you are, please do not use our guides to start.

Not legal or financial advice

The guides describe how an exchange works and how the desk handles IDs, deposits and withdrawals. They are general information written for a wide audience. They do not take your finances, location or tax position into account, and they are not a substitute for advice from a qualified professional.

Betting risk

Every bet can lose. On an exchange there is an extra point to understand: when you lay a selection, the amount at risk is your liability, which can be much larger than the stake.

Only bet money you can afford to lose in full. Our exchange guide explains back, lay and liability step by step, and the responsible gaming page explains limits and pauses.

Tax and record keeping

Winnings may have tax consequences, and how they are treated depends on your own situation. We do not give tax advice. Keep your own record of deposits, withdrawals and results, and ask a qualified tax adviser if you are unsure what you need to report. Your WhatsApp chat with the desk is a useful record of requests, so do not delete it while your ID is active.

This site and the platform are separate things

This website explains things. The exchange is where bets are placed and settled, and the desk is where accounts and payments are handled. A sentence on a guide page does not change how a market settles, what a rule on the platform says, or what the desk has confirmed to you in your chat. When in doubt, the platform rules and the desk's message in your chat are the ones that count.

No guarantees

We do not promise any result, win rate, payout speed, limit or bonus. Where a guide mentions something that varies, such as current limits or how long a request takes, it tells you to confirm it with the desk in your chat, because that is the only answer that reflects the day you ask.

Accuracy and changes

Each page is reviewed by Lazaro Duychak against the live desk process, and the review date sits at the top. Processes still change. If a page and the desk disagree, follow the desk and tell us about the page through the contact page.

Examples, screenshots and sample screens

To explain how markets look, some pages show sample odds boards, tables and screen layouts. These are drawn to illustrate a point. Real screens can look different, and the platform layout can change between app versions. When a guide gives a worked example in rupees, it is there to show how the numbers combine, not to suggest a stake.

Third-party services

Several services you rely on are not run by us. WhatsApp carries your chat with the desk. Your bank and UPI app move your money. Your phone maker decides how Android handles app installs from a file. We cannot control delays, outages or rule changes at any of them, and our guides describe them only as far as they affect the steps you take.

Before you start: a short checklist

1. Check your state. Confirm that online betting is permitted where you live.
2. Confirm your age. You must be 18 or over.
3. Learn the maths. Understand back, lay and liability, ideally on a demo ID first.
4. Fix a budget. Pick an amount you can lose in full and do not raise it during a match.
5. Use the real desk. Start every chat from a button on this site, and read what Sky Exchange is if you are still deciding.

Names and trademarks

Team, league and tournament names appear only to describe markets. Brand names belong to their owners. We have no connection with any sports body, team or player, and no endorsement is implied.

What this site is not

A few things are easy to assume about a site like this one, and each assumption is wrong in a way that could cost you money, so they are worth spelling out.

This site does not take bets, hold balances or process payments. Nothing you type here opens an account. The pages describe how the desk works and link to a WhatsApp chat where the desk does that work; the betting itself happens on the exchange platform, under its own rules, which you should read when you log in. We do not publish those rules and we cannot change them. If a page here and the platform's own screen ever disagree, the platform's screen is the one that applies to your bet.

This site does not give tips or predictions. Any worked example, such as a lay at a given price with a given liability, is there to show how the arithmetic works and uses illustrative figures chosen for clarity. It is not a suggestion that the price, the team or the market is a good bet. Our guide to Sky Exchange cricket betting markets explains how each market settles; it does not tell you what to back.

This site does not promise outcomes. Betting on an exchange involves losing money a good deal of the time, including for careful and experienced players. Anyone who says otherwise, especially anyone who says it under the Sky Exchange name, is not us. Our page on whether Sky Exchange is safe covers how those approaches usually look.

And this site does not offer bonuses, free bets or referral payments. If you have been offered one under our name, it came from someone else. For a plain account of what the platform actually is, start with what Sky Exchange is, and treat everything that goes beyond that description with suspicion.

Adults only

This site is for people aged 18 and over. If you are under 18, please leave the site.