Sky Sports have reported one other surge in viewing figures for this summer season’s Ashes, with information damaged within the males’s and girls’s collection.
The satellite tv for pc broadcaster introduced in a median viewership of 965,000 throughout the 4 days at Headingley final week, the best ever for a Test.
Remarkably, it was additionally up 56 per cent on the third Test of the 2019 Ashes – which grabbed the eye throughout an exciting Ben Stokes-inspired climax however attracted a a lot smaller viewers within the early levels of the match.
Despite competitors from the British Grand Prix and Wimbledon, England’s profitable run chase on day 4 hit a excessive of two.05million.
That made it the broadcaster’s third highest day on file behind the Headingley finale 4 years in the past and the final day at Edgbaston this summer season.
The common viewers throughout the 14 days of motion sits at 878,000, which marks a forty five per cent rise on the final Ashes collection.
Heather Knight’s England aspect can also be elevating the bar within the ladies’s recreation. Their five-wicket win at Lord’s peaked at 795,000, the best ever for a ladies’s T20 worldwide, and averaged 285,000.
Their Ashes Test in opposition to Australia noticed viewing figures virtually 400 per cent greater than the 2019 collection, with the T20 collection up 135 per cent.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
