Ben Dunk's counterattack meets Sheldon Cottrell's third wicket

Sports TV's WCL semifinal broadcast drew nearly 240,000 views in eight hours as West Indies Champions disrupted Australia's batting plans.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 463,231 views a day, 24 times a normal first day on this channel (18,999).

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Dunk briefly hit back. With Australia's opening batters already dismissed, Ben Dunk sent Sheldon Cottrell over backward square leg for six, then cut him for four. The response was short-lived: Cottrell trapped him leg before wicket in the same over.

That opening spell gives Sports TV's Australia Champions-West Indies Champions semifinal broadcast an immediate hook. At Sharjah, Australia chose to bat, only for Cottrell to remove D'Arcy Short and David Warner in his first over. Each wicket brought the bowler's familiar soldier salute.

Dunk's dismissal made it three wickets for Cottrell, leaving Joe Burns and the incoming Callum Ferguson to repair the innings. The broadcast catches the contrast neatly: a batter finding the boundary, then an umpire's raised finger changing the mood of the over.

The stream's early audience was far above Sports TV's usual start for a long broadcast. Cricket already accounts for the channel's most-watched regular uploads, led by September's Afghanistan-India coverage; this time, the draw is a place in the World Championship of Legends final.

Sports TV has also posted a separate post-match show for the semifinal, while its coverage of the other semifinal includes South Africa's fall of wickets against England.

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The numbers

The semifinal broadcast is drawing views much faster than Sports TV's usual long streams.

the video's first day

usual first day here

18,999

this video

463,231

subscribers

2,430,000

▲ 40,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,057,555,935

views per day

3,516,677

typical day: 4,868,989

the video

views

237,770

likes

1,355

comments

2

days online

1

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

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3,190,000

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3,090,000

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3,050,000

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3,000,000

Sports TV

2,430,000

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2,160,000

As of October 17, 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.