Morgan’s side secured a five-wicket win in the second T20 at Old TraffordThe second T20 between England and Pakistan on Sunday, the first live cricket on BBC television for 21 years, was watched by a peak of 2.8 million viewers. England’s thrilling run chase to give them a five-wicket victory at Emirates Old Trafford was the first live cricket televised by the corporation since the 1999 World Cup. An average of 1.7 million viewers tuned in during the four-hour programme. That is perhaps fewer than had been hoped as the ECB tries to appeal to a new audience of cricket viewers and is considerably less than the 4.5 million who watched last year’s World Cup final on Channel 4. In mitigation England were missing their biggest names for the match — Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler, Jofra

Source: The Times September 01, 2020 01:41 UTC