World Cup 2023: How much data will be spent to watch the World Cup match? See full account here

If you are also a cricket lover and want to live stream the World Cup 2023, then know how much data will be spent. Lest your enjoyment of watching the match gets spoiled midway, know here how much data is required to watch a complete cricket match as per the internet speed.

Cricket World Cup 2023 has started. This is the biggest tournament for cricket lovers across the country. There is a possibility of breaking new records for watching cricket matches in this World Cup. Since the matches are live-streamed, anyone can watch them anywhere. But you need data to watch the match on your phone. But the question arises that how much internet is spent to watch how many cricket matches. To solve this problem of yours, here we will tell you how much data should be there in your phone to watch the match.

As we all know that Disney+ Hotstar is streaming Cricket World Cup 2023, a certain bandwidth is required to stream the content on the platform.

Disney+Hotstar Recommended Bandwidth

HD Content (5 Mbps): If you are streaming the Cricket World Cup match in standard high definition (HD), then the minimum download speed should be 5.0 Mbps. This gives you the experience of watching high definition content.

Full HD content: 8Mbps

For those who want to watch the match live, there should be a higher download speed of 8.0 Mbps. With this speed you can enjoy live action without buffering or interruptions.

4K content: 25Mbps

If you have a 4K-capable device, you'll need a strong internet connection with a minimum sustained download speed of 25.0 Mbps. Here we will tell you how much data is spent in streaming a cricket match i.e. full 3 hours. You can understand according to this-

Data Usage (in GB) = (Bitrate in Mbps) x (Match Duration in hours) / 8, like you are streaming a 3-hour Cricket World Cup match in HD quality (5 Mbps) then- Data Usage = (5 Mbps) x (3 hours) / 8 = 1.875 GB, so for a 3-hour HD stream, you will use approximately 1.875 GB of data.

Live Stream (8Mbps)

For a live stream (8 Mbps), a 3-hour match will use approximately 3 GB of data and for a 4K stream (25 Mbps), it will be approximately 9.375 GB.

Well, this is just an estimate, your data may cost differently in different situations. According to ACT Fibernet, online cricket streaming will consume approximately 1.3 GB of data per hour at Full HD, 639 MB per hour at 720p and 249 MB per hour at lower resolution.