Closed end-2024; category banned in 2025

CrickPe Referral Code

Q: Is CrickPe still running?

No. It halted operations at the end of 2024, less than two years after launching ahead of the 2023 IPL. No new contests have run since, and the referral programme ended with them.

Q: Did the 2025 gaming ban shut CrickPe down?

No — and the sequence matters. CrickPe closed at the end of 2024, before the ban. What killed it was the 28% GST applied from 1 October 2023 to the full deposit value rather than 18% on platform revenue. The Online Gaming Act came afterwards and prohibited the whole category.

Q: Why did 28% GST matter so much?

Because it changed what was taxed, not just the rate. Tax on money entering the system, rather than on the operator's cut, is unrecoverable for a young platform spending heavily on sign-up bonuses to buy users.

Q: What happened to the team?

Third Unicorn, Ashneer Grover's company, redirected to ZeroPe, a lending product for medical loans. Grover's stated reason for leaving was the conflation of gaming with gambling in India along with the GST change.

Q: This page used to list alternatives — where did they go?

It listed twelve other real-money apps with links to sign up. All of them fall inside the prohibition introduced by the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025, and under section 6 those links would be twelve advertisements for prohibited games. They have been removed.

Q: Can I still withdraw a CrickPe balance?

Withdrawal was reported to remain available after new contests stopped, but that was some time ago. Approach Third Unicorn directly and do not leave a dormant balance in a wound-down product. Refuse any third-party offer to recover gaming funds for a fee.

Shut down at the end of 2024 — killed by 28% GST, not by the ban

CrickPe was a fantasy cricket app launched by Ashneer Grover's Third Unicorn before the 2023 IPL. It halted operations at the end of 2024, and real-money fantasy was subsequently prohibited across India.

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CrickPe halted operations at the end of 2024 — before India's gaming ban, not because of it. The cause was the 28% GST applied from 1 October 2023 to full deposit value instead of 18% on platform revenue, which made the economics unrecoverable. Ashneer Grover's Third Unicorn moved to ZeroPe, a medical lending product. Real-money fantasy was then prohibited nationally by the Online Gaming Act, 2025, with Rules in force from 1 May 2026.

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Referral codes are not listed for CrickPe. The app halted operations at the end of 2024 after 28% GST was applied to deposits, and real-money fantasy has since been prohibited nationally by the Promotion and Regulation of Online Gaming Act, 2025. No contests have run for some time.

How to Use a CrickPe Referral Code

The app stopped, it did not pause

CrickPe halted operations at the end of 2024. No contests have run since, and the referral programme went with them.

GST killed it, not the ban

From 1 Oct 2023, 28% GST applied to the full deposit rather than 18% on platform revenue. That is a tax on money entering the system.

Then the category was prohibited

The Online Gaming Act, 2025 banned online money games nationally; the Rules have been in force since 1 May 2026.

Chase a dormant balance directly

Approach Third Unicorn through its own channels. Do not use a third-party recovery service.

Reward Details

Your Reward: None. CrickPe halted operations at the end of 2024, and real-money fantasy sports is now prohibited in India.
Referrer Reward: The former programme advertised ₹25 per referral. It has not operated since the app stopped running contests.
Minimum Purchase: Not applicable.
Validity: 28% GST on deposits from 1 Oct 2023; app halted end-2024; Online Gaming Act assented 22 Aug 2025; Rules in force 1 May 2026.
Available In: India
Referral Limit: Not applicable.
Payout Time: Not applicable.
Eligibility: Third Unicorn has redirected to ZeroPe, a medical lending product.

Why Choose CrickPe?

A tax change, not the ban

28% GST on deposit value from October 2023 made the unit economics unrecoverable for a platform buying users with bonuses.

The founding idea never worked

CrickPe was meant to route contest money to cricketers. Grover's own account is that the model left no room for it.

We removed twelve outbound links

This page used to point readers at Dream11, MPL, Howzat, HalaPlay, Gamezy, Fan2Play and others as alternatives. All are now inside the prohibition.

Third Unicorn moved to lending

The team redirected to ZeroPe, a medical loans product — a clearer signal about the category's prospects than any press release.

About CrickPe

CrickPe did not pause its referral programme. The app stopped running new contests at the end of 2024, and the entire category it belonged to was prohibited by law the following year.

The CrickPe referral programme is closed. There is no code to look for and no reward to claim.

If a programme reopens, this page should be rewritten from its published terms. Until then, treat any CrickPe referral code offered on any third-party site as unverified — a closed programme is exactly the condition under which stale codes circulate longest, because nobody is issuing new ones to contradict them.

Since this is a fantasy sports platform, the points that matter have nothing to do with referrals:
• Paid fantasy contests involve staking real money on an uncertain outcome. Their legal status varies by Indian state, and several states restrict or prohibit them. Check your own state's position before depositing anything — the platform's availability in your app store is not a statement about legality where you live.
• The money is not played against the house — it is played against other entrants, and the platform takes a cut of every pool. That means the average participant must lose, by exactly the size of that cut, before any question of skill arises. It is arithmetic rather than opinion, and it is the single most useful thing to understand about the format.
• A large minority of entrants in big contests are high-volume players using tools and multiple entries. A casual player entering one team is competing with them on equal terms and unequal preparation.
• Winnings are taxable in India and tax is typically deducted at source. The figure you see advertised is not the figure that reaches your account.
• And if you play, set a deposit limit before you start rather than after, and treat it as entertainment spending — money you have decided to spend, not money you expect back. If that framing feels uncomfortable, that discomfort is the useful signal, not something to argue with.