The popularity of Indian cricket has given rise to many opportunities for several industries. At the same time, even with cricket happening all year, people are still looking for live telecast of cricket matches. The arrival of twenty20 format of the game has increased cricket’s popularity manifold. This slam-bang version of the game is just three hours long with lots of on field action. It has also increased the viewer ship as well as interest of people in this game.
2008 witnessed two major events in cricketing world. Indian cricket league (ICL) and Indian premier league (IPL) took the cricket world by storm. In fact, IPL was one of the biggest money-spinners in the history of cricket. It also gave cricket much needed glamour and excitement factors.
With the growing popularity of cricket matches and people’s increasing desire for more live feed, the concept of live cricket streaming has peaked up. Now radio and television broadcast is not the only options available to cricket fans. Internet provides it all. Any one can log onto several websites dedicated to cricket who provide live cricket streaming. That way, people are no longer dependent on radio and TV for their cricketing interest.
Streaming is basically progressive downloading of the desired file but the difference is file will not be downloaded in a lasting way. While one watches the live cricket matches, the computer connects to the broadcasting service and receives ongoing video feed. This ongoing feed (audio or video) is also called as stream.
So while one streams a file, he gets to watch live cricket matches from any part of the world but he won’t have the file afterwards. This is a very interesting way to watch the match and is also helpful in making live matches more popular and available. Cricket fans can find live feed of any match taking place in different parts of the world.