World Cup...

I only had one item on my to-do list for yesterday: watching the cricket. And what a game it was! The previous 47 matches in the World Cup had been available only on Sky, which meant taking out a subscription to Sky Sports or heading to a pub which was showing the games. But yesterday’s game, with every ball shown on Channel 4, returned cricket to the nation’s conversation (for a while, anyway).

The viewing figures for the cricket on Channel 4 peaked at 4.5 million people during the dramatic 'super over' which was needed when, after one hundred overs, the scores were tied. These viewing figures were dwarfed, however, by the 9.6 million who tuned into the BBC to see the men's final from Wimbledon, and the 11.7 million who had watched England women win their World Cup.

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