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T20 World Cup 2026: Where to Watch Matches - TV Channels & Live Streaming in and outside India

T20 World Cup 2026: Where to Watch Matches - TV Channels & Live Streaming in and outside India. (Source - Getty Images) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has announced the broadcast arrangements for the ICC Men's T20 World Cup 2026, which will see 20 teams compete across 55 matches from 7 February to 8 March 2026. The tournament will be co-hosted by India and Sri Lanka, with fans around the world able to follow the action live across television, digital, audio and emerging formats. In addition to the main tournament, official warm-up matches will also be broadcast across selected TV and digital platforms, giving fans an early opportunity to follow teams ahead of the opening fixture. TV and Digital Coverage In India, JioStar will bring the tournament to fans via Star Sports on linear television, as well as through the JioHotstar digital platform. Every fixture will be available in five languages English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada on JioStar's TV and Digital coverage, with additional regional feeds (Bengali, Bhojpuri and Haryanvi) available on JioHotstar. Coverage in Marathi and Indian Sign Language will be available for all team India matches, the semi-finals and the final on JioHotstar. Following the success of previous ICC events, a vertical live feed will once again be made available in English and Hindi on JioHotstar for mobile-first audiences. In addition, on JioHotstar, viewers will also have the option to enjoy the games via 360 view and the Multi-cam feature - an option to engage with the Live match from a specific POV/vantage point - Hero, Stump, Battery, Field view and Multi-View. JioStar has engaged with PVR – Inox on a partnership for screenings nationwide across several matches during the ICC Men's T20 World Cup. Star Sports will also be available to viewers in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives through its distribution partners across the sub-continent. For co-hosts Sri Lanka, Dialog TV will ensure comprehensive coverage across the island as the official broadcast partner, with live telecasts on linear television, via the ThePapare.com website and Dialog Play mobile app. Dialog TV will also have a Sinhala language feed for all matches on their linear and digital offerings. Coverage will be further extended through Dialog TV's free-to-air partner, TV Supreme, as well as with Sri Lanka Telecom owned platform PEO TV. Fans in the United Kingdom and Ireland can follow the action on Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Main Event, with digital streaming available on NOW. Sky Sports will be making Hindi commentary available to viewers for the semi-finals and the final. Additionally, with Italy participating in their first ICC Men's T20 World Cup, Sky Italia will be covering all Italy matches, the semi-finals and the final live on their platforms. Proteas' fans can watch all the action live on SuperSport's wide array of TV and digital offerings in sub-saharan Africa. In Australia, coverage will be on Prime Video, with an additional Hindi commentary feed available to viewers for all India matches, the semi-finals and the final. Fans in New Zealand can tune in via SKY Sport, who will also make Hindi commentary available for all India matches, the semi-finals and the final. In Pakistan, coverage will be delivered by PTV and Myco, supported by digital partners Tamasha, ARY Zapp and Tapmad. Additionally, the ICC will produce an Urdu commentary feed for Pakistan matches, which will be broadcast on PTV Home on broadcast and will be streamed by digital partners. Willow TV continue to bring live coverage of ICC events in the United States and in Canada. All 55 matches will be available in English and Hindi, with all team USA matches available for free to viewers in the US & Canada. The USA matches will also be available for free on Willow's official YouTube handle. The English and Hindi commentary feeds will be available on Willow DTC and CricBuzz DTC, with the rest of Willow's platforms carrying the English feed. Collaborating with popular social media personality Jomboy, Willow will enable fans to access an alternate commentary feed for the USA v India and USA v Pakistan matches. In the UAE and the wider MENA region, the tournament will be aired on CricLife Max, available via StarzPlay. Additionally, fans across the Middle East can experience StarzPlay's coverage of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup on the big screen, through their partnerships with VOX (UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Oman), Reel (UAE), Roxy, Cinepolis, Star (UAE), Mukta (Bahrain) and Epix Cinema (Bahrain). ESPN will broadcast all matches live in the Caribbean Islands, with the Disney+ app streaming the event in Latin America. Select matches will be shown with Portuguese commentary on ESPN's linear TV platforms in Brazil. Total Sports Management (Bangladesh) will cover the event through leading linear broadcasters T Sports & Nagorik TV and digital platform Rabbithole. Further broadcasters include PNG Digicel (Pacific Islands), Hub Sports 4 (Singapore), and Lemar TV (Afghanistan), who will also be providing commentary in Pashto and Dari. In Nepal, Kantipur TV will broadcast the tournament, with selected matches produced locally with Nepali commentary. The Nepali commentary feed will also be made available to certain territories via ICC.tv, ensuring wider access for Nepali-speaking audiences. Dutch broadcaster NOS will stream all Netherlands matches live for cricket fans in the country. For Malaysia and Hong Kong, matches will be available via the CricBuzz channel, through their partnerships with Astro Cricket and PCCW. The tournament will also be available in-flight and at sea on Sport 24, ensuring fans don't miss out on the action while travelling. All remaining territories will be covered live and free on the ICC's owned and operated streaming platform, ICC.tv. In addition to live match coverage, ICC.tv will feature multi-language commentary options, including Japanese and Bahasa, with select matches also streamed live on the ICC's official YouTube channel. Audio and Radio Coverage In addition to live video coverage, world-feed audio commentary in English will be available globally via the ICC mobile app. Radio coverage in the United Kingdom and Ireland will be provided by the BBC, while listeners in Australia can tune in to ABC and SEN. For Indian audiences, All India Radio will provide live audio commentary and in Sri Lanka, live ball-by-ball commentary for all matches will be available on Derana FM

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WPL 2026: Mandhana and Rodrigues unwind ahead of second title clash in Vadodara

WPL 2026: Mandhana and Rodrigues unwind ahead of second title clash in Vadodara (Source:Gettyimages) The Women’s Premier League (WPL) 2026 final is set to be held in Vadodara, with Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) taking on Delhi Capitals (DC). In a fascinating subplot, both captains, Smriti Mandhana and Jemimah Rodrigues, are best friends off the field and will face each other as opposing leaders in the grand finale for the second time in three seasons. Rodrigues has had a demanding schedule, playing three matches in five days as DC took the longer route to the final. However, amid the hectic run of games, she revealed that she chose to simply let go, rediscovering her fluency and freeing her mind from the pressures of performance and leadership. "I think I was doing one thing; I was trying way too hard. And the last two games, I just let go. I let go, backed myself, didn't even go and practice because I was practicing so hard, trying to hit every ball perfectly and get everything right,” said Rodrigues as quoted by ESPNcricinfo. "Then I was like, you know what? I remember one of the interviews I heard. It's like the butterfly, the more desperate you are, the further it goes away. But the more you just let go, it comes and sits on your shoulder. And that's what I did. And I'm happy it's coming. It's coming off well,” she added. RCB entered the final after finishing at the top of the points table and have enjoyed an extended break ahead of the summit clash. Most of the players used the downtime to head to the beaches, dance, and soak up the sun, a reset that the captain fully embraced and enjoyed. "Yeah, it was very important. Six days of thinking about cricket, who's going to come, what's going to happen and all of that. It's better that we went off for the first two or three days. It was a good break for all of us because, of course, there were a lot of back-to-back games in the first three days,” said Mandhana. "But again, coming back on [February] 2nd, 3rd and 4th, coming back practicing extremely hard, that's something which has been the most important part for this team. And I'm really happy that everyone had that sort of a break and enjoyed it with each other and came back being very fresh. And again, looking forward to the finals because sometimes sitting in the hotel room, not doing much can cause a lot of overthinking. So I'm happy that we had that sort of a break and RCB took us to Goa,” she added. This season is very difficult from the previous ones: Rodrigues For Rodrigues, the character of the DC side truly came to the fore when they were pushed into a corner, with each of their final two group-stage fixtures turning into must-win encounters. "Yeah, it does feel different to the other years. This year was a lot more hard work. But I think the way the girls stuck together stood out for me. Especially when things don't go your way, it's very easy for a team to scatter,” said Rodrigues. "But I think this team actually came together and those losses actually helped us bond a lot more and be a lot more together and come out of it. And I'm very proud of the character the girls have shown to pick themselves up, to come out and play the cricket that we are playing. I think hats off to the entire Delhi Capitals team and especially our support staff to make that environment for us,” she added. Rangarajan is the most composed coach: Mandhana Mandhana offered a glowing endorsement of RCB’s new head coach, Malolan Rangarajan, who took over from Luke Williams, the title-winning coach of 2024. He has previously worked within the women’s set-up as head of scouting and brings a ringside view of how the RCB women’s team has operated since its inception. "I've known Malo for the last three years. In the first season, of course, we didn't have a lot of time to talk to each other, but since the second season, the auction planning, Malo's always involved. He was the assistant coach for us and I feel he's extremely calm and composed. That's one thing which I felt… When we were 40 for 4, he was still sitting the same way in the dressing room,” said Mandhana. “We were 180 for 2, he's still sitting the same way, talking the same way. And whenever you go to him as well, I feel not only me, but a lot of girls have enjoyed working with him and really taken the calmness he brings to the team. And I feel people who've come in, in terms of Indians, need a lot of calmness and I feel Malo has helped them a lot. So, again, my bond with him is... I feel we just don't need to talk also, we just know each other now well,” she added. I've grown the most in the past few months: Rodrigues Rodrigues underlined that this phase has been one of significant growth, detailing how she navigated personal challenges in the period between the World Cup triumph and the WPL. "I think it's the last, I think, 3-4 months, I've grown the most, I think. Especially the last one month as a captain. But I think the best part about captaincy was I thought less about myself and more about the team. And that took a lot of pressure off me also. So I think that just gave me that space where I don't overthink my game. I just look out for others, look out how the team can do better, what works, what doesn't work, have a lot more conversations in practice with our players,” said Rodrigues. “And I think that really helped me. And yeah, apart from that, I think all I had to keep doing was just keeping things simple. So I think for me, it's the same thing as what I'm going to do tomorrow. Just to pull back, just stay calm, just do what comes to you very instinctively because the preparation has been done. All the plans are in place. Everything is done. Now just got to go out there and just react to whatever comes as a captain and as a batter,” she concluded.

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