Video taking off 191x its usual first day

Kusal Mendis leaves the ball inches from his off stump

Sports TV's Pakistan-Sri Lanka clip turns a shot not played into a standout Short, complete with a disbelieving wicketkeeper.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 940,871 views a day, 191 times a normal first day on this channel (4,917).

Off Stump Nearly Goes Flying! Mendis Gets Lucky! | Pak vs SL | M9V1J

The wicketkeeper looks skyward. The bowler turns back toward Kusal Mendis. And Mendis, having let a delivery pass perilously close to his off stump, eventually smiles as he resets at the crease.

Sports TV's close-call Short has drawn more than 800,000 views in 17 hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for the format. Nothing goes flying, despite the title's warning. The interest is in how little room Mendis leaves for error.

"What a delivery to leave," says a commentator, before another asks: "Did he leave it on length or line?" That is the cricketing question inside this tiny highlight: did Mendis judge where the ball would pass, or trust its bounce? The clip supplies the near miss, not his answer.

He is already past his century when it happens, with Dhananjaya de Silva also well into a hundred. Sports TV's other uploads from the third day in Rawalpindi give that batting effort more space, including separate clips of Mendis reaching his fifty and century and a package devoted to the pair's long partnership.

A separate Short titled "Razaullah And Mendis Have A Heated Moment! | Pak vs SL | M9V1J" is also drawing an unusually large audience for the channel. Here, though, the moment ends with Mendis smiling and his stumps still standing.

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The facts

Channel: Sports TV
Subscribers: 2,540,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 25,852,318
Channel views, pace per day: 1,579,664 (on a normal day: 6,029,852)
Video published: November 11, 2026
Video views so far: 814,307 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 940,871

The numbers

The near-miss clip is running far above Sports TV's usual first-day pace for Shorts. Several other uploads from the same Test day also have unusually strong starts for their respective formats.

the video's first day

usual first day here

4,917

this video

940,871

subscribers

2,540,000

▲ 10,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,246,867,379

views per day

1,579,664

typical day: 6,029,852

the video

views

814,307

likes

8,747

comments

253

days online

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

3,210,000

3,090,000

3,070,000

3,020,000

2,540,000

2,180,000

As of November 12, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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