Ishan chatterjee

IPL Chairman Arun Singh Dhumal: The Indian Premier League (IPL) 2026 season has recorded its biggest-ever opening weekend, with a combined reach of more than 515 million viewers across television and digital platforms for the first two high-scoring games of the ten-team tournament.

Tournament broadcaster JioStar said a combined watch-time of 32.6 billion minutes was reported for the first two games, which meant growth in this was 26 percent as compared to the last edition’s opening two matches.

It further added that CTV reach grew by 30 percent and concurrency went up by 61 percent, while on linear television, the first two matches of the 2026 edition witnessed a TVR growth of 24 percent over the previous seasons.