JioCinema shatters streaming record during IPL final first innings

MUMBAI: The Chennai Super Kings-Gujarat Titans (CSK-GT) Tata IPL 2023 saw old concurrent viewing records being shattered, just as the first innings was ending. JioCinema which has been streaming the final – along with broadcaster Star Sports  on payTV –  registered a massive  32 million concurrent viewers. The previous best by JioCinema was 25 million, and before that it was 18.6 million which was set by Hotstar.

For most of the match, the viewership was around 1.8 to two million. But it shot up to 3.1 miilion with the 21 year old Sai Sudharsan belting almost every delivery that was hurled at him either into the stands or to the boundary. Sudharshan scored a quick fire 96 to take GT to a massive 2014-4 at the end of the first innings. It finally rose to 32 million when Sudharshan went berserk with his bat.

Will this record be broken when CSK comes to bat? Most likely. Cricket fans can’t seem to get enough of Mahendra Singh Dhoni in what many believe might be his last playing season in the IPL.