The ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025 has damaged main viewership information in India as its TV scores surged to the best ever for a multi-nation cricket match, eclipsing the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 by a whopping 23 per cent.
The reside broadcast of the occasion acquired an astounding complete watch time of 137 billion minutes on Star Sports activities and 110 billion minutes on JioHotstar. The big numbers had been a results of a blockbuster remaining between India and New Zealand in Dubai on March 9 that touched a peak concurrency of 122 million reside viewers on TV and 61 million on JioHotstar, a file for Digital viewership in cricket.
The ultimate additionally grew to become the second-highest rated ODI in TV historical past (exterior of ICC Cricket World Cup matches) with 230 million viewers tuning in for the reside broadcast with 53 billion minutes of watch-time throughout TV & Digital platforms.
ICC Chair, Jay Shah: “The Champions Trophy made an incredible return after eight years and the viewership numbers from India have been overwhelming, specifically the ultimate between India and New Zealand.
“The unbelievable viewership numbers spotlight the mass enchantment that cricket has in India and the way taking ICC occasions to audiences in numerous languages can considerably increase fan engagement. The success of the Champions Trophy advertising technique is clear, creating pleasure in current and new fanbases, complimented by extremely thrilling cricket all through the occasion.”
CEO Sports activities, Jio Star, Sanjog Gupta: “This accomplishment is a results of the mixed power of the widest, most deeply penetrated multi-platform vacation spot for sports activities, the fan-focussed story-telling strategy of the JioStar ‘mega-casts’ and our superior technological capabilities.
“The curiosity within the match was fuelled by a one-of-a-kind cohort-based advertising effort which constructed various apertures for the match as a way to recruit at scale, differentiated viewers segments with distinct persuasions throughout units. India’s unbeaten, title-winning marketing campaign, additional fuelled the fervour of the followers and drove the spike in viewership for the Ultimate.”
The high-profile league encounter between archrivals India and Pakistan grew to become one of the watched ODI matches ever in India, clocking over 26 billion minutes of watch-time on linear TV as per figures launched by the Broadcast Viewers Analysis Council.
The chartbuster achieved a formidable 10.8 % larger tv ranking than the India-Pakistan match within the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 performed in Ahmedabad that had registered 19.5 billion linear viewing minutes in comparison with 26.5 billion minutes within the Champions Trophy match.
The match, performed to a packed home in Dubai on 23 February, was witnessed by a file 206 million individuals on linear TV as India continued their dominance over Pakistan in world ICC occasions with famous person Virat Kohli carving a memorable six-wicket win for the eventual champions.
The exceptional viewership numbers are largely as a result of rights holders JioStar had ensured huge protection with channels taking the motion reside to properties throughout the nation in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada on Star Sports activities and Sports activities 18 channels.
On digital channels, the match was streamed reside throughout a file 16 feeds together with 9 languages – English, Hindi, Marathi, Haryanvi, Bengali, Bhojpuri, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada, 4 multi-cam feeds, Indian Signal Language feed and the Max View feed on JioHotstar.
Followers and viewers had been deeply engaged with high-stakes match by means of charming programming within the lead-up and thru the match.
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