Mahadev Book started in 2010 when two young traders from Bhilai, Saurabh Chandrakar and Ravi Uppal, opened a cricket-tips channel on Telegram. Fifteen years later the same enterprise claims more than a million active IDs and lists sixty-thousand live events each month, covering cricket, kabaddi, foo

Reddy Anna Book grew from a pocket-sized cricket-tips group in 2010 into a country-wide wagering network that still operates from the shadows. The brand claims more than fifty-thousand active IDs, a figure propped up by two hundred-plus “branches” where cash moves hand-to-hand long after