How to watch every game of the Cricket World Cup 2019 live on TV or online, how to catch up with free highlights afterwards, and how to listen to the matches on radio. Plus: the CWC 2019 schedule, when all the matches start, and which channel is broadcasting in each country
The men’s Cricket World Cup (CWC19) is underway, and here at Tech Advisor we’re seriously excited. Partly because it means we get to watch even more cricket than usual, but partly because England are favourites. (Everything may go pear-shaped in short order, but let’s enjoy the moment.)
British cricket fans may have discovered, however, that getting to the games is not easy. Tickets were snapped up in no time flat, and they’re not cheap either. Which means many fans will instead have to watch live video streams on TV or online.
That’s where we come in. In this article we explain how to watch every single game of the Cricket World Cup 2019 live on TV or the internet (jump straight to our ‚how to watch‘ section), how to catch highlights after the action’s finished, and how to listen live on the radio. For the big Test series after the cup’s finished, see How to watch England vs Australia cricket live.
Here are today’s matches:
From the opening match on 30 May to the final on 14 July. (Full schedule here.) Hopefully England will be playing that day.
There are 45 games in the Cricket World Cup group stage (in which every team plays every other team), then the two semi-finals and the final, for a total of 48.
That doesn’t appear to include the usual grim third-place playoff you get before most world cup finals, so we guess they’re not doing that.
Sky Sports Cricket has the live coverage rights in the UK and Ireland, while Channel 4 has the UK highlights (although there will plenty of other ways to watch highlights, as we’ll explain later).
Here are the channels that will be broadcasting coverage of the Cricket World Cup in other countries:
Afghanistan: Moby Media Group, plus Hotstar.com web streamingAustralia: Nine Network, Fox SportsBangladesh: Bangladesh Television, Gaza TV and Star SportsCanada: Asian Television Network, plus Hotstar.com web streamingEurope (Except UK & Ireland): Hotstar.com web streamingHong Kong: Star CricketIndia: Star Sports, DD Sports, plus Hotstar.com web streamingNew Zealand: Sky SportPakistan: Ten Sports Pakistan, PTV SportsSingapore: Star CricketSri Lanka: Star Sports, Dialog TV, plus Hotstar.
