India Wins ICC Champions Trophy; JioHotstar Hits 85 Crore Views

As India wrote history by winning the ICC Champions Trophy 2025, beating New Zealand by four wickets in a high-voltage final at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium, the views on Jio Hotstar increased to a whopping 84.5 crore by the match's end.

Whereas 'viewers' tracks the quantity of distinct persons consuming the material, irrespective of the number of times they tuned in, 'views' reflect the aggregate sum of times that the material has been viewed, with multiple viewings by a single individual counted as well.

The game was a rollercoaster ride, keeping the audience glued to it right from the first ball. New Zealand, who batted first, scored 251/7, with the contributions of Daryl Mitchell (63 off 101) and Michael Bracewell (53 off 40).

India's spinners, Varun Chakravarthy and Kuldeep Yadav, were vital in keeping the Kiwis at bay.

As New Zealand's innings reached its tail end, the audience was already skyrocketing, reaching 39.7 crore views.

But the actual peak was witnessed during India's run chase.

Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill gave a proper start, but some early wickets, including that of Virat Kohli, kept the match on the edge.

To put that into context, the India-Pakistan match of Feb 23 had witnessed 60.2 crore views and the semi-final against Australia clocked 66.9 crore.

Still, the last broke all previous records, presenting the absolute passion of cricket's online following.

Earlier, the official ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023 and ICC T20 World Cup 2024 broadcaster, Disney+ Hotstar, put up overall concurrent viewership numbers on its site.

Since the integration of Jio and Hotstar into a single app, the platform has been showing the views only.

The statistics about the number of unique viewers have not yet been announced.