Live Cricket Match
The popularity of cricket around the world, including England, South Africa, India and Australia New Zealand ensures that when a live cricket match is being played – access to the vision, or TV / Satellite viewing rights is highly sought.
It’s because of this demand and popularity that a whole online world has opened up dedicated just to cricket.
While sporting networks such as ESPN saw this early on, purchasing the cricinfo website – the underground coverage of a live cricket match is quite substantial.
From large hordes of fans in India and Pakistan, who are able to capture and re-stream the cricket game onto the internet – through to fans in say Australia and England who watch and reproduce the feed or stream around their parts of the world.
We’re not just talking cricket games that say feature domestic teams in Indian, England or Australia. The larger live cricket matches are streamed from events such as the IPL (Indian Premier League) which leads the world in 20/20 cricket matches and again, are popular and watched online.
Cricket in India has such a huge following that almost any match, whether it’s played in India or somewhere else in the world – will have a big bunch of MS Dohni, Sachin Tendulkar or Rahul Dravid fans, trying to watch the cricket game online if they cannot get to a game.
The type of cricket match doesn’t matter, it could be a test match over 5 days or a limited over game.
The problem for the cricket boards both international and country based, is how they achieve the rights to the cricket and stem the flow of underground live cricket matches being streamed. These streams are quickly published, then are passed around by blogs, such as the blogspot format where others can read, and follow exactly where the cricket online feed is coming from.
The amount of fans picking up the feed is staggering. It could be cricket fans in the backstreets of South Africa, unable to afford satellite cricket game feeds, it might be Indian cricket hopefuls or new stars catching a glimpse of a one-day game between say India and Pakistan or even an Australian wanting to watch Ricky Ponting and the Australian Cricket team face off again England in an Ashes test series – all available online via a live cricket match stream on the web.
It’s not hard to find, simply hit up a search engine such as Ask.com or Google.com and search for cricket info, cricket matches live online etc – and you will see many results.
The only draw back is the quality of the streaming cricket vision. In some instances, the quality can be quite poor with jittery images or muffled sound from the free feed. Many factors can and will effect this, it might be the streaming setup at the other end or the poor quality cricket image might be caused by a poor receiving computer with a low bandwidth internet connection, or a small internet café that can’t handle the large data transfer speeds of streaming video.
