Retired stars of Bangladesh and England meet live in WCL 2026's Match 6
Sports Central by DRM's full highlights package from the same game ran almost level with the live stream on its first day.
Sports Central by DRMStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 787,802 views a day, 308 times a normal first day on this channel (2,554).
LIVE | Bangladesh Champions vs England Champions | Match 6 | WCL 2026 | M9O1T
Who are the Bangladesh Champions and the England Champions? They are not the national sides. They are teams of former internationals playing in the World Championship of Legends, the T20 tournament for retired cricketers that began in England in 2024. Their meeting in Match 6 of the 2026 edition gave Sports Central by DRM, a clips channel run by Dot Republic Media, its biggest stream of the day.
The live broadcast passed 400,000 views in its first eight hours, on a channel where a new upload usually opens with a few thousand. The description promises big hits, wickets and boundaries. Neither it nor the title says which old names took the field.
The rest of the day's uploads make the story more interesting. The full match highlights from the same game, posted the same day, kept almost level with the live stream. Perhaps many people would rather catch the whole match in one sitting once it is over than follow it ball by ball. The shorter cuts, a second innings powerplay and two other highlight edits, drew much smaller crowds. The post-match ceremony and studio show barely registered. A France-Belgium Nations League press conference posted alongside them stayed in the low thousands, a reminder that this channel's big days still belong to cricket.
The live stream's comment section is nearly silent. Its one note, written in Bengali, asks when the match was played.
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- Channel
- Sports Central by DRM
- Subscribers
- 6,720,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 6,488,296
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,905,548 (on a normal day: 682,259)
- Video published
- October 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 401,631 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 787,802
The numbers
The live stream and the full highlights both opened far beyond anything this channel usually sees on a first day.
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