The masterclass of Virat Kohli at Dharamsala between India and New Zealand match has made the most watched online sports event in the entire world.
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It helped Disney+Hotstar garnered 4.3 crore (43 million), which is the highest concurrent views in the world.
“Déjà woohoo! Another record-breaking performance by all of us! Time for a hat-trick?” shared Disney+ Hotstar on X.
At the same time, it also smashed the record of the most concurrent viewership in India. The FIFA World Cup final 2022 final featuring Lionel Messi’s Argentina and Kylian Mbappe’s France had 3.2 crore (32 millions) viewers in India via the JioCinema app.
Messi’s Argentina won the World Cup, their first since 1986, in the penalty shoot out.
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Coming back to the India’s match against New Zealand in Dharamsala, Virat Kohli may have missed out on the individual milestone, but Kohli’s innings had been crucial in earning his team a fifth win from five matches at the tournament, anchoring the innings as the rest of the top six all departed.
Virat Kohli got out on 95. Kohli’s frustration upon being dismissed was clear to see, not least because a second century of the week would have taken his ODI tally up to 49, equalling the all-time record held by Sachin Tendulkar.
With four more group games to come there is still time for Kohli to make history on the World Cup stage in-front of his home fans, with a game against struggling England up next in a week’s time.