{"id":33335,"date":"2025-10-16T22:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=33335"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:35:47","slug":"record-high-60-million-viewers-for-womens-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/record-high-60-million-viewers-for-womens-world-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Record high 60 million viewers for Women&#8217;s World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The Women&#8217;s World Cup has achieved record viewing figures with 60 million fans having already tuned in to watch the first 13 one-day matches, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first women&#8217;s tournament where the prize money is more than the previous men&#8217;s ODI World Cup, boasting an overall purse of $13.88 million (11.9 million euros).<\/p>\n<p>The 13th edition of the women&#8217;s showpiece 50-over tournament, which started last month in India and Sri Lanka, has eight teams competing for the title to be awarded after the final on November 2.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to data released jointly by ICC and JioHotstar, the first 13 matches of the tournament have already reached over 60 million viewers, a five-fold increase over the 2022 edition,&#8221; the ICC said.<\/p>\n<p>A key clash between arch-rivals India and Pakistan on October 5 in Colombo became the most-watched women&#8217;s international match ever with 28.4 million viewers, the ICC said.<\/p>\n<p>Defending champions Australia are eyeing a record eighth Women&#8217;s World Cup and hosts India are in hunt for their maiden title.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan are playing all their matches in Colombo as part of a compromise deal that allows both India and Pakistan to play at neutral venues in multi-nation tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Women&#8217;s World Cup has achieved record viewing figures with 60 million fans having already tuned in to watch the first 13 one-day matches, the International Cricket Council (ICC) said Thursday. This is the first women&#8217;s tournament where the prize money is more than the previous men&#8217;s ODI World Cup, boasting an overall purse of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33337,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33335\/revisions\/33337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}