England and West Indies legends go live in Match 8, right behind Match 7

Sports TV's full stream of the retired stars' game drew far more than a usual long broadcast, and the Australia-Bangladesh match before it drew more still.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 346,805 views a day, 35 times a normal first day on this channel (9,992).

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The World Championship of Legends puts retired internationals back in their countries' colors, and Sports TV carried two of its matches in a row. Match 8, England Champions against West Indies Champions, went out as a full live stream and passed 170,000 views within eight hours. A long stream on this channel usually ends its whole first day somewhere near 10,000.

It was not even the day's largest crowd. The stream of Match 7, Australia Champions against Bangladesh Champions, posted the same day, has drawn more still. Between them, the two legends' games are doing the heavy lifting at a moment when the channel's overall daily views sit a little below their normal level.

Perhaps viewers simply want the whole game. A full highlights package of Match 8 also ran well ahead of a usual upload, while a shorter highlights cut and a clip of Lendl Simmons' 55, as its title has it, have gathered only a few thousand views between them.

The legends were not the only cricket on the schedule. Sports TV is also streaming Pakistan's domestic President Trophy Grade-I, and day two of SNGPL against Kingsmen at Diamond Cricket Ground pulled in several times the usual audience for a long stream here.

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The numbers

The stream ran far beyond the channel's usual first day for a long broadcast, on a day that was otherwise a little quieter than normal.

the video's first day

usual first day here

9,992

this video

346,805

subscribers

2,370,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,008,496,507

views per day

2,935,066

typical day: 3,557,024

the video

views

172,707

likes

932

comments

0

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

Bryson DeChambeau

2,990,000

Chess.com

2,940,000

Wimbledon

2,660,000

Sports TV

2,370,000

World Rugby

2,050,000

New Zealand Cricket

1,990,000

As of October 8, 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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