Up to 80,000 people are estimated to travel with an Indian passport to watch the matches, British High Commission (BHC) estimates indicate. “At the moment, demand is higher still – and receiving more than 3,500 applications a day from India is common. Our visa services partner VFS Global has already processed over 200,000 UK visa applications in India, during the period of January 2019 to April 2019,” he says. Also read: ICC World Cup 2019: Sourav Ganguly backs Pakistan to reach semi-finalsInterestingly, VFS Global, BHC’s visa services partner alone received over 132,000 applications during the months of March and April this year, which accounts for around 65 per cent of the overall UK visa application count from 2019 January to April. Off the fields, while India constituted one-third of the worldwide viewership for 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup with around 730 million viewers, the 2019 edition expects 1.5 billion viewers from across the world to tune into the tournament.

Source: Indian Express May 15, 2019 12:33 UTC