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IPL 2020: Cricket apps climb up the order in play store downloads

Some indications of the size of the demand can be gauged from the fact that the total viewership on day one was 8.4 million viewers on Hotstar

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Last year, nearly 300 million subscribers were hooked to the game through Hotstar, making it the most popular programme on the OTT platform

Surajeet Das Gupta New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : Sep 29 2020 | 6:05 AM IST

Move over messaging apps, TikTok clones and payment apps, folks. It’s IPL cricket fever time and most of the top 10 downloaded apps in the country every day are related to the game.

The dizzying ascent of these cricket apps, some from near oblivion, after the IPL tournament began on September 19 in the UAE, has been meteoric, thus reflecting the status of the game as the country’s religion even during the pandemic and even when coronavirus has necessitated stadiums without audiences, without sound, and without atmosphere.

Disney+ Hotstar, which has the digital rights to stream IPL matches live, saw its download

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