India-South Africa legends cricket gets the live and highlights treatment
Sports Central by DRM's WCL broadcast drew an unusually large audience, with two shorter match uploads also making fast starts.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 738,834 views a day, 93 times a normal first day on this channel (7,948).
LIVE | India Champions vs South Africa Champions | Match 11 | WCL 2026 | M9O1T
Sports Central by DRM gave India Champions against South Africa Champions several ways to watch: a live broadcast, full-match highlights and a separate second-innings cut. The broadcast led the response, reaching about 360,000 views in its first eight hours, far beyond the channel's usual start for long cricket uploads.
This is Match 11 of the World Championship of Legends, a tournament built around former international cricketers. The country names are familiar, but these are the Champions sides, not India's and South Africa's regular national teams. The appeal is seeing established cricket names return to tournament play.
The shorter versions made unusually strong starts of their own. The upload titled "Full Match Highlights | India Champions vs South Africa Champions | Match 11 | WCL 2026 | M9O1H" passed 100,000 views, while the second-innings highlights also drew well above the channel's usual audience for that format.
Sports Central's coverage extends beyond the cricket itself: separate uploads offer a post-match show and ceremony, giving this fixture its own small viewing menu on the sports clips channel.
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- Channel
- Sports Central by DRM
- Subscribers
- 6,740,000 ▲ 20,000 this week
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 16,277,754
- Channel views, pace per day
- 1,368,513 (on a normal day: 1,471,688)
- Video published
- October 10, 2026
- Video views so far
- 359,101 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 738,834
The numbers
The live broadcast stands out against Sports Central's usual long uploads. The full-match and second-innings highlights also started well above their usual levels.
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