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The opening match of the ICC Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2019 between home team England and South Africa recorded a reach of 114 million viewers on the Star network, making it the highest opening world cup game. Reach is the number of people who watched the match for at least one minute during its telecast. Star India said the reach of the opening world cup game is 2.2 times of the opening game of the most recently played ICC tournament — the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, between England and Bangladesh. The viewership for the ICC CWC 2019 opening match is 101 million impressions. Impressions is the unit of viewership measurement that tells the number of people who tuned in to the match at any given point of its telecast. The ten-team tournament being played in a single-round robin format from May 30 to July 14 is broadcast across various channels on the Star India network, and on Hotstar, the broadcaster’s video streaming platform. Commenting on the opening numbers, a Star Sports sp...

South Africa's pace spearhead Dale Steyn was Tuesday ruled out of the World Cup after failing to recover from a shoulder injury, a development that could hasten his international retirement. South Africa have named left-arm seamer Beuran Hendricks as his replacement after approval from the Event Technical committee. The 35-year-old Steyn had sustained a second shoulder injury during the IPL where he played a couple of games for Royal Challengers Bangalore. "The ICC has confirmed that the Event Technical Committee of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 has approved Beuran Hendricks as a replacement player for Dale Steyn in the South Africa squad for the remainder of the tournament," a media release stated. "Bowler Steyn has suffered a second shoulder injury which has not responded to treatment and has ruled him out of bowling for the foreseeable future. His replacement Hendricks is a left-arm fast bowler," it further stated. While Steyn had d...