Right now, YouTube’s IPL channel has over 49.5 million views. [..] Viewers from 200 countries have watched the streams. Unsurprisingly, India has the most views overall; coming in second is the United States — YouTube had expected that spot to go to the UK or Australia, where cricket gets far more attention.

Remember Allen Stanford? Turns out he might have had a point about how Twenty20 could popularise cricket in the US …