Not just movies, fans can now watch live Cricket World Cup matches on big cine screens and experience a stadium-like atmosphere sitting in the comfort of their seats after the International Cricket Council (ICC) tied-up with India’s second largest cinema multiplex to show live matches. Road to World Cup 2019: From 2003 to 2015, How Bollywood Films Fared at the Box Office During Cricket’s Biggest Tournament.

In a first tie-up of two such different entities coming together, the Cineplex giant will live telecast all of India’s league matches, the semi-finals, final and other high-profile league matches of other teams. The ICC Cricket World Cup 2019 is set to begin on May 30 in England. The final will be played on July 1.

Inox will telecast those matches at select multiplexes in Mumbai, New Delhi, Kolkata, Bengaluru, Pune, Jaipur, Indore, Vadodara, Surat, Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad. The cinema multiplex is set to telecast a total of 15 matches in those cities. While Inox will live telecast the matches in India, ICC has also partnered some other multiplex in UAE and Bahrain. MS Dhoni Makes Fan Do Sit-Ups in New Star Sports ‘Cricket Ka Crown’ Ad for ICC Cricket World Cup 2019! Watch Video.

“This World Cup, Inox will be India’s cinematic cricket stadium, offering a thrilling and an unparalleled experience to the cricket fans,” Alok Tandon, CEO, Inox Leisure, said. “We are glad that we will be able to generate the excitement and energy, much similar to watching a match live in a stadium. We have been innovating with our content offering and the screening of World Cup matches is a massive milestone in this endeavour.”

A list of Indian team’s matches to be live-telecast on INOX : South Africa (June 5), Australia (June 9), New Zealand (June 13), Pakistan (June 16), Afghanistan (June 22), West Indies (June 27), England (June 30), Bangladesh (July 2,) and Sri Lanka (July 6).

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