Live cricket without hotstar | How to watch free live cricket?

Can we watch live cricket for free?

Yes we can, lets begin!

As an ardent cricket fan, there are times when I wish I knew where and how to watch my favorite cricket match series online! I’m sure some of you feel the same way. Whether you are traveling outside India, or complete a household chore, or perhaps you are at work and can’t get your head around missing out on all the action, these are times when you definitely wished you knew how to watch cricket matches on the internet!

In order to watch live cricket matches online, you need to know the network that has the broadcasting rights for the specific cricket series in your country. Cricket is streamed on various Over-the-top (OTT) platforms. By knowing the correct network, you can watch the matches through these OTT services.

How to Watch Live Cricket Matches Online?

Cricket is a game watched by many people across the world in many countries. Furthermore, the increasing popularity of Cricket due to the onset of T20 cricket means more and more countries and now playing cricket than perhaps a decade ago!

The recent development in internet technology has provided a platform for the broadcasters to use Over The Top (OTT) platform for streaming a live game to the subscribers.

In this article, we will go through these platforms available in different countries to experience live cricket matches.

Disney+ Hotstar

Link to the site – (https://www.hotstar.com/in/disneyplus)

India has a huge following of cricket. Tens of millions watch the game while working, while traveling, and in leisure. Keeping this in mind, Star India Pvt. Ltd. won television broadcast and digital rights for all domestic cricket for the next five years under BCCI. They paid a huge sum of Rs. 6138.1 crore (around USD 944 million).

They have made the live streaming available on Star’s OTT platform Disney + Hotstar. Anyone living in India can subscribe to Disney + Hotstar and watch all the international games played on Indian soil as well as domestic cricket competitions like Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy. 

Once you signup for Disney+Hotstar, you can opt for a plan out of 3

You can also watch some of the cricket matches for FREE (at least for a few minutes).

Disney+ Hotstar VIP is the perfect plan for the subscribers whose aim is only to watch sports. This package comes with F1, Premier League (PL), French & US Open Tennis as well as many badminton, hockey, wrestling, martial arts, table tennis, and kabaddi tournaments.

Team India’s some international tours which are broadcasted by Star India Pvt Ltd. are also available on Disney+ Hotstar VIP package.

Various mobile carrier services like Jio, Vodafone Idea provide special plans for Disney+ Hotstar subscription.

Sony Liv

Link to the site – https://www.sonyliv.com

Sony Liv is another option to watch cricket when Team India is visiting countries like Australia, England, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. Sony Pictures Sports Network has the rights of the international matches played in and between these countries until 2023. Their OTT platform Sony Liv opens the door for the fans to stream live games.

Once you sign in on Sony Liv, there are 3 options for payments- monthly (Rs.299), 6 monthly (Rs. 699) & 1 yearly (Rs. 999).

Various international cricket tournaments including the most iconic Ashes are available to stream on Sony Live along with domestic T20 tournaments like Big Bash League, Mzansi League, World’s only T10 league.

The subscription also includes football leagues from Italy, FA Cup, Euro Cup & UEFA Champions League. National Basketball Association (NBA) can be streamed with Sony Live subscription too. So far these two are the only and best OTT platforms available in India to stream live cricket.

Watch the live cricket here.

Before you proceed further, make sure to use any VPN.( Download VPN from 1 or 2)

Connect to any server outside India.

And you can enjoy the live cricket for free.

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Disclaimer:

We DO NOT promote any illegal activities.

Many illegal websites stream live matches as well.

The readers are advised to stay clear of such illegal websites. Apart from content quality not being up to the mark these websites are a host of phishing and other malicious links that would install viruses such as Ransomware that will encrypt the data on your machine.

Such virus attacks can lock you out of the system and you will not be able to get the content back unless you pay a hefty sum.

It is thus advisable to pay the smaller subscription fees instead to have better quality and safe viewing experience.