Record TV viewership
NEW DELHI: The India-Pakistan match on the opening day of the hockey World Cup has attracted record audiences on television.
The International Hockey Federation (FIH), in a statement on Tuesday, quoted Eurodata TV/AMAP source to claim that the match, in which India beat Pakistan by 4-1, gained TV ratings of 1.8 on Doordarshan and 1.3 on Ten Sports.
The FIH claimed that the ratings were as good as ratings of the one-day internationals cricket matches involving India.