Women’s cricket has actually crossed a historical limit. The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup India 2025 last, where Team India raised their maiden World Cup prize, matched the guys’s T20 World Cup in digital viewership, a very first in the history of the sport.
According to information shared by JioStar on Friday, the champion clash drew an unmatched 185 million audiences on JioHotstar, equating to the record set by the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 last.
The total reach of the competition skyrocketed to 446 million, going beyond the combined overall of the last 3 ICC Women’s World Cups streamed on digital platforms.
The rise marks a cultural shift: not simply in audience numbers, however in how females’s sport is taken in and commemorated throughout India. The last, which saw Harmanpreet Kaur’s group end up being the very first Asian side to win the ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup, tape-recorded a peak concurrency of 21 million audiences.
Digital viewership rise signals brand-new period
The momentum extended beyond mobile screens. A record 92 million audiences tuned in through Connected Television (CTV), equating to the CTV audience for both the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2024 last and the 2023 Men’s ODI World Cup last.
The figures highlight India’s speeding up shift towards large-screen digital watching– a pattern as soon as controlled by males’s cricket.
“The ICC Women’s Cricket World Cup India 2025 has actually declared the growing stature of females’s cricket in India. The extraordinary quality of cricket on screen, specifically the Indian group’s extraordinary efficiency, has actually driven record-breaking viewership and drew in a bigger, more enthusiastic fan base than ever previously. This marks an essential shift for ladies’s cricket, it is no longer simply being viewed; it is being commemorated by millions. It is motivating a brand-new generation of fans, professional athletes, and brand names to back up the sport. This success is a cumulative accomplishment of ICC and BCCI for their vision, the gamers for their exceptional efficiencies, the fans for their steadfast assistance and brand names that have actually promoted females’s cricket,” stated Ishan Chatterjee, CEO, Sports, JioStar.
With India crowned champs, anticipation for the upcoming TATA Women’s Premier League (WPL) in January 2026 is anticipated to reach brand-new heights, as ladies’s cricket gets in a brand-new period of appeal and pledge.
As digital platforms continue to redefine how India sees sport, the 2025 Women’s World Cup stands as a turning point minute– when females’s cricket not just drew level with guys’s viewership however redefined the scale of what’s possible.
