Ishita Dhupar

Ishita Dhupar writes the pages on this guide that deal with what you see before you type a password: the Login window, the two Cricway lobby screens and the addresses that open them.

A South Asian woman in her early thirties with shoulder-length dark hair and a plain grey kurta, seen in three-quarter view at a desk in a dim room at dusk, looking at a smartphone in her hand, its screen angled slightly toward us with the two large words "Which one" on its deep navy screen, a second phone face-down beside her notebook, warm lamp light

Independent guide to the Cricway login

What she covers

Cricway login — where the Login button is, what the window asks for and why the same username fails on another screen.
Which Cricway address is yours — the dark and white lobby screens side by side, the spellings copies hide behind, and what to do when an address stops loading.
Cricway games — the .games address and the casino shelves: Indian card tables, live dealers, slots.

How she works

Her method is a two-phone habit. Every comparison on her pages is made by opening both screens at the same moment, one on each phone, and writing down only what differs on the first screen: header colour, button names, how match times are labelled, whether there is a sign-up button at all. If a difference can only be seen after logging in, it does not go on the page, because a reader standing at the Login window cannot use it.

She keeps a dated list of the addresses that open each screen and re-checks it whenever a page of hers is edited. When a store listing is involved she reads the developer name and the description, not the icon — the icon is the first thing a copy gets right.

What she will not write

She does not tell readers which Cricway screen is "the real one". Both carry the name; what matters to a reader is which one their account came from. And she does not publish anything about how the lobby's servers are run: it helps nobody log in.

Background

Before this guide she spent several years writing help pages for mobile wallets, where the hardest job was the same — explaining, in a few lines, why a payment screen that looks right may not be. Corrections to her pages are welcome at the footer email address.