How to watch cricket online in the U.S.?

January 5, 2018 12:35 PM

Is there a way to stream the India vs South Africa test match online in the U.S.? The sites I'm finding are scaring McAffee and the Sony Ten 1 feed says it's 'not available in your geography'.
posted by pescadero to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (5 answers total)

Best answer: I know *nothing* about cricket or which sites would be safest, but I do know there's a cricket community with a thread on streaming resources here.
posted by bluecore at 1:45 PM on January 5, 2018 [1 favorite]

http://icc.crictime.is/ usually works fine for me
posted by Lucy_32 at 1:57 PM on January 5, 2018

Don't know about cricket, but for the America's Cup and/or the Olympics, I've used websites that make your computer look to the internet like it's in a foreign country. You can Google search for "hide ip address" or "use foreign IP address" or things like that. One possibility is expatshield.com which lets you use a UK IP address to watch UK TV.

There are VPN based services which will do much the same thing.
posted by SemiSalt at 2:04 PM on January 5, 2018

Best answer: Willow TV is something you might want to check out if you want a hassle free non shady experience.

They even have a channel on Roku and from past experience, the stream was high quality.
posted by viramamunivar at 2:09 PM on January 5, 2018 [3 favorites]

Willow TV has exclusive rights in the US for anything of note. Everything else is caveat streamor. A lot of big broadcasters have got wise to the most popular VPN endpoints and IP-hiding services and block them, and the more obscure a VPN, the less confident you should be in what they're doing with your network traffic.
posted by holgate at 2:40 PM on January 5, 2018