Afghanistan-Bangladesh's fourth Test day, in full and in fragments
Sports TV's long-form Abu Dhabi coverage draws the largest early audience among its latest cricket uploads.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,141,600 views a day, 92 times a normal first day on this channel (12,363).
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Sports TV offered several ways into Afghanistan and Bangladesh's fourth day of Test cricket: the full broadcast, a highlights package, and shorter cuts collecting boundaries and wickets. It is the long version that has drawn the largest early audience, reaching about 864,000 views in its first 14 hours.
That is already far beyond a usual first day for the channel's long videos and live streams. The match is a one-off Test at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, with coverage that leaves room for the sessions and partnerships between the headline moments. Unlike a short-format game, a Test can unfold over five days.
For viewers looking for a quicker catch-up, Sports TV also posted fourth-day highlights and a separate boundaries-and-wickets edit of Bangladesh's second innings. The highlights package made an unusually strong start of its own, though the full broadcast drew substantially more views.
The channel's busy cricket day extended beyond Abu Dhabi. A Pakistan-Sri Lanka highlights video centered on Maaz Sadaqat's batting also attracted an unusually large early audience, as did an India Champions-Bangladesh Champions clip billed as a last-over thriller. Alongside those compact batting and finishing stories, the Afghanistan-Bangladesh upload offers the longer rhythms of a Test day.
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Where next?
- Channel
- Sports TV
- Subscribers
- 2,420,000 ▲ 50,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 33,886,060
- Channel views, pace per day
- 3,570,517 (on a normal day: 4,082,926)
- Video published
- October 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 863,995 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 1,141,600
The numbers
The full Test broadcast stands out most sharply against Sports TV's usual long-form starts. Several shorter cricket uploads also opened well above their usual level.
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