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Afghanistan-Bangladesh's fourth Test day, in full and in fragments

Sports TV's long-form Abu Dhabi coverage draws the largest early audience among its latest cricket uploads.

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 1,141,600 views a day, 92 times a normal first day on this channel (12,363).

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Sports TV offered several ways into Afghanistan and Bangladesh's fourth day of Test cricket: the full broadcast, a highlights package, and shorter cuts collecting boundaries and wickets. It is the long version that has drawn the largest early audience, reaching about 864,000 views in its first 14 hours.

That is already far beyond a usual first day for the channel's long videos and live streams. The match is a one-off Test at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi, with coverage that leaves room for the sessions and partnerships between the headline moments. Unlike a short-format game, a Test can unfold over five days.

For viewers looking for a quicker catch-up, Sports TV also posted fourth-day highlights and a separate boundaries-and-wickets edit of Bangladesh's second innings. The highlights package made an unusually strong start of its own, though the full broadcast drew substantially more views.

The channel's busy cricket day extended beyond Abu Dhabi. A Pakistan-Sri Lanka highlights video centered on Maaz Sadaqat's batting also attracted an unusually large early audience, as did an India Champions-Bangladesh Champions clip billed as a last-over thriller. Alongside those compact batting and finishing stories, the Afghanistan-Bangladesh upload offers the longer rhythms of a Test day.

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The facts
Channel
Sports TV
Subscribers
2,420,000 ▲ 50,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days
33,886,060
Channel views, pace per day
3,570,517 (on a normal day: 4,082,926)
Video published
October 12, 2026
Video views so far
863,995 (less than a day online)
Video views, pace per day
1,141,600

The numbers

The full Test broadcast stands out most sharply against Sports TV's usual long-form starts. Several shorter cricket uploads also opened well above their usual level.

the video's first day
usual first day here
12,363
this video
1,141,600
subscribers
2,420,000
▲ 50,000 in the last 7 days
total views
1,031,418,391
views per day
3,570,517
typical day: 4,082,926
the video
views
863,995
likes
4,069
comments
0
days online
1
subscribers: this channel and similar channels
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2,950,000
Wimbledon
2,660,000
Sports TV
2,420,000
Tennis TV
2,150,000
World Rugby
2,050,000
As of October 13, 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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