England Champions, West Indies Champions and Lendl Simmons' 55 in WCL Match 8

Sports Central's full-match cut of the legends' game went past 100,000 views within nine hours, and its comments ask about Chris Gayle and the missing Sri Lanka side.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 201,034 views a day, 77 times a normal first day on this channel (2,616).

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A full-match cut of England Champions against West Indies Champions, Match 8 of the World Championship of Legends 2026, passed 100,000 views within nine hours of going up. On Sports Central, the Dot Republic Media clips channel that mostly carries Pakistani cricket, a highlights package of this length usually gathers a few thousand views in its whole first day.

The game filled the channel's day. The live stream of the same match drew even more people. Sports Central also cut the game into smaller pieces: a shorter highlights reel, the post-match ceremony and a clip of Lendl Simmons' 55 for the West Indies side. Those stayed small. The full version is the one viewers picked. Alongside it, a domestic live stream from the President Trophy, PTV against Ghani at Abbottabad Cricket Stadium, also ran well ahead of the channel's usual start for a broadcast.

The tournament is a stage for retired internationals, and the comment section reads a little like a reunion. Bengali-speaking viewers write that they come mainly to watch Chris Gayle bat, and one says he will miss every one of the West Indies players. Several people ask where the Sri Lanka Champions are. A running joke has grown around a car advert that seems to arrive with every six.

One viewer simply thanks whoever came up with the tournament.

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The numbers

A highlights package that would normally count its first day in the thousands, measured beside the live stream of the same match.

the video's first day

usual first day here

2,616

this video

201,034

subscribers

6,730,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

4,050,781,000

views per day

2,010,701

typical day: 1,144,262

the video

views

107,104

likes

982

comments

12

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

cricket.com.au

10,500,000

England & Wales Cricket B…

8,250,000

Sports Central by DRM

6,730,000

Braille Skateboarding

5,660,000

Shoaib Akhtar

3,780,000

Global Cycling Network

3,640,000

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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