How to Get Cricket Abroad

Cricket is an important professional sport in nine countries and one region (the West Indies). According to its global governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), it is moderately to well established in almost 100 additional locations around the world. Where cricket is popular, important matches are likely to be screened, in part or in full, by local television channels, and there may be additional live radio coverage. Some cricket followers like to be able to watch games, or follow them in real time, when traveling abroad from cricket-playing nations. There are three ways to do this.

Things You'll Need

  • Computer
  • Television
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Instructions

  1. Get Live Updates

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      Use your computer for the easiest and most inexpensive way to get cricket while abroad. One popular site, Cricinfo (http://www.espncricinfo.com/), now part of ESPN, provides constantly updated scorecards for matches underway all over the world. This can be accessed through the "Live Scores" portal on the site's front page. For important matches, the site also provides live ball-by-ball commentary. Cricbuzz (http://www.cricbuzz.com) and Yahoo! Cricket (http://cricket.yahoo.com), the latter designated by the ICC as the official site of the Cricket World Cup, offer similar resources.

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      Cricket is played in many countries, and can be watched almost anywhere.

      Use your computer also to watch live streams of an actual match. It is more difficult to find live match streams than scorecard and commentary updates, and any free streams are likely to have advertising content. Search by entering the names of the teams and phrases like "live streaming" or "live feed" in your computer's search bar. Crictime is a site offering live video, although the action can be slow to load and may be interrupted by on-screen and pop-up ads. Action8Cricket and ViewLiveCricket are among many similar alternatives.

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      Alternatively, cricket may be viewable live on television, especially in countries with many cable or satellite channels. Availability depends on your location, and channels carrying specialist sporting events like cricket matches are likely to charge a fee. For example, some viewers in the United States and Canada can watch live cricket on Willow TV (available through DirectTV or Dish Network) but it is a subscription channel (Willow TV also streams matches online in the United States). Find channels carrying the sport in your location by searching local TV guides or online, or your TV's on-screen channel guide.

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      Personal computers have revolutionized the accessibility of cricket coverage.

      Finally, look at radio in a new way. The days of listening to crackling sports commentary broadcast from the other side of the world are largely over. Many radio stations now stream live cricket commentary to your computer terminal. One example of such a service is World Cricket from the BBC World Service. Many radio broadcasts can now be accessed using a smart-phone if your phone has the appropriate data service.