There is often some drama regarding India and Pakistan matches. This situation has become more common in the last few years. But the controversy that arose regarding the India-Pakistan match before the T20 World Cup 2026 has hardly ever happened before. Despite this, this match was played, which Team India won easily. The impact of the hard work that ICC had to put in to organize this match is now visible. According to the information, in this India-Pakistan match, all the old records of viewership in the T20 World Cup were destroyed.
IND vs PAK match got so many views
JioStar, the official digital and broadcasting partner of T20 World Cup 2026 India-Pakistan match After about 5 days, this big announcement was made regarding viewership. The company said that this match played on February 15 at R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo received 163 million views (16.3 crore) through digital i.e. online streaming. These figures are only for digital views. That means it does not have TV broadcast viewership, which can make it even bigger. This is more than any other match in the entire history of the ICC T20 World Cup.
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It has also been told in this disclosure of the company that this digital reach is more than the final of the last T20 World Cup. India and South Africa faced each other in the final of T20 World Cup 2024. Not only this, but this time the India-Pakistan match played in Colombo got 56 percent more digital views than the group stage match played between India and Pakistan in the T20 World Cup 2024. Like the dominance of viewership, in this match also the Indian team maintained its dominance and defeated Pakistan in a very one-sided manner by 61 runs.
Boycott drama also had its impact!
However, this is not the first time that such enthusiasm was seen among the spectators for the India-Pakistan match. In fact, this was what the organizers and broadcasters were expecting. But this also raised the question, what is the reason for the increased viewership numbers this time? Is there really enthusiasm about the cricket rivalry between the two countries or did the boycott gimmick by Pakistan become the reason for it? Whatever may be the recent results of India-Pakistan matches, it cannot be denied that there is excitement about this clash. But this time the boycott controversy seems to have a bigger role in the increased viewership.