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Chris Gayle chooses to chase in the WCL final

Sports TV's live coverage drew about 440,000 views in eight hours, with Chadwick Walton bringing a personal wish to the pre-match interviews.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 920,924 views a day, 40 times a normal first day on this channel (23,342).

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0:00Chadwick Walton and Ashley Nurse discuss facing England, with Walton hoping to avoid losing his wicket to Samit.
3:04The studio turns to Moeen Ali, Sheldon Cottrell and predictions for the final.
10:46The toss recap confirms that Chris Gayle has chosen to field.
12:00The teams walk onto the field before the national anthems.
19:09Fidel Edwards bowls the opening delivery to Jason Roy, who takes a single.

What is on Chadwick Walton's mind before a final? Winning the trophy for the Caribbean, certainly, but also one particular opponent. "For me personally, I just don't want Samit to get me out," he says in Sports TV's build-up to England Champions against West Indies Champions.

That small, personal ambition sits inside a much bigger occasion: the World Championship of Legends final at Sharjah Cricket Stadium. The live upload drew about 440,000 views in its opening eight hours, already far beyond the channel's usual full first day for streams and similarly long videos. A separate full-match highlights upload also made a faster-than-usual start.

The broadcast gives the occasion room to unfold. Walton and Ashley Nurse speak pitch-side, while Waqar Younis assesses the batting and the players who could shape the match. Chris Gayle then wins the toss for West Indies Champions and elects to field, leaving his team a target to pursue.

After the team introductions and anthems, the familiar names become an actual contest: Jason Roy and Dawid Malan open for England, with Fidel Edwards taking the ball. Roy gets underway with a single from the first delivery, nearly twenty minutes into the upload.

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The facts

Channel: Sports TV
Subscribers: 2,440,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 38,213,666
Channel views, pace per day: 4,021,307 (on a normal day: 4,708,786)
Video published: October 18, 2026
Video views so far: 444,415 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day: 920,924

The numbers

The live final cleared Sports TV's usual first-day audience for long broadcasts well before its first day was complete. The full-match highlights also started above their usual pace.

the video's first day

usual first day here

23,342

this video

920,924

subscribers

2,440,000

▲ 20,000 in the last 7 days

total views

1,066,060,612

views per day

4,021,307