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The 12th match of the World Cup 2023 was played between India and Pakistan at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Fans were eagerly waiting for this match. The entire stadium was packed with spectators during the match. About 1.30 lakh spectators had reached the Narendra Modi Stadium to watch the match. While the craze of this match continued on the ground, a record number of people watched this amazing match live on the online OTT platform. This match of the World Cup has broken all previous records of the number of spectators.
More than three crore people were watching the India-Pakistan match simultaneously on Hotstar. Hotstar gave this information by tweeting. At this time, 3.1 crore people were watching this match together on Hostar. However, later this figure increased even more.
Onwards and Upwards! 🚀#TeamIndia #WorldCupOnHotstar #CWC23 pic.twitter.com/LbI3zXqQSQ
— Disney+ Hotstar (@DisneyPlusHS) October 14, 2023
India-Pakistan broke their own previous record, which they set a month ago during the Asia Cup 2023. In fact, the broadcast rights of the world matches are held by Star Sports Network. Additionally fans can watch live streaming on Disney Plus Hotstar. A record 3.5 crore people watched the India-Pakistan match live on Disney Plus Hotstar i.e. OTT. This is the record so far. Never before had such a large number of people watched a cricket match live.
Highest Peak Viewership of a Cricket match on Digital Platform.#INDvsPAK – 3.5Cr (LESS CWC)
CSK vs GT – 3.2Cr(IPL Final23)
IND vs PAK – 2.8Cr(Asia Cup23)
CSK vs GT – 2.5Cr(Q1 IPL23)
IND vs Aus – 2.5Cr(ODI CWC23)— ＲＯＭＥＯ👑 (@iromeostark) October 14, 2023
The previous record is also in the name of India-Pakistan match. During the Asia Cup 2023, the Super Four match played between India and Pakistan was watched live by 2.8 crore people and broke all previous records. BCCI Secretary Jai Shah himself gave this information on X (earlier Twitter). Along with this, the match played between India and Australia in this World Cup was watched live by more than 2.5 crore people. Also, the India-New Zealand match of the 2019 ODI World Cup was watched live by 2.52 crore people.
Todays #INDvsPAK has clocked 2.8 Crore concurrent users on @DisneyPlusHS – the highest for any India match in the history of digital. The previous best was #INDvsNZ 2019 @cricketworldcup semifinal with 2.52 Crore concurrent users 🇮🇳 #AsiaCup@StarSportsIndia
— Jay Shah (@JayShah) September 11, 2023
This proves how much craze there is among the fans regarding the India-Pakistan match. Not only this, so ICC, Asian Cricket Council and BCCI are making a lot of preparations for this match. Talking about the match, after losing the toss and batting first, the Pakistan team was limited to 191 runs in 42.5 overs. Babar Azam scored the highest 50 runs. In reply, India achieved the target for the loss of three wickets in 30.3 overs. Rohit Sharma played an innings of 86 runs.
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