The India-Pakistan conflict performed in October 2025 within the Girls’s ODI World Cup has formally grow to be the most-watched ladies’s worldwide cricket match of all time, mentioned the Worldwide Cricket Council (ICC) on Thursday.
The high-stakes encounter, which India received by 88 runs on the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo, drew record-breaking viewership – it had a attain of 28.4 million and 1.87 billion minutes consumed, making it the most-watched ladies’s worldwide cricket match of all time.
When it comes to tv viewership, the India–Pakistan match has grow to be the highest-rated league stage match within the ICC Girls’s ODI World Cup historical past. The India-Australia match on October 12 in Visakhapatnam recorded 4.8 million peak concurrent viewers on JioHotstar, which can be one other all-time excessive for girls’s cricket.
“The primary 11 matches, together with India’s matches in opposition to Sri Lanka, Pakistan and South Africa delivered a attain of 72 million, marking a 166 % improve from the earlier version. Viewing minutes surged 327 % to six.3 billion, underscoring the rising emotional funding of followers.”
“The primary 13 matches of the match have already reached over 60 million viewers, a five-fold improve over the 2022 version, whereas complete watch-time has hit 7 billion minutes, up 12 occasions from the earlier match,” additional mentioned the ICC in its assertion.
The match is being lined on Star Sports activities channels and JioHotstar in 5 languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, and Kannada – in addition to in Indian Signal Language for inclusive entry, aside from improvements like multi-camera angles and Max View obtainable on dwell streaming.
Hosts India, led by Harmanpreet Kaur, are occupying the fourth spot within the factors desk with 4 factors from as many video games. They should win their remaining league video games in opposition to England, New Zealand and Bangladesh to maintain themselves within the race for coming into the semi-finals.