Watch IPL 2024 Live Streams From Anywhere
If you’re a cricket fan, you can’t miss the Indian Premier League, one of the world’s biggest sporting events. Starting on March 31, 2023, the IPL will feature 74 matches over the course of two months, featuring some of the sport’s best players. In this article, we’ll go over all the ways you can watch the IPL live from anywhere, maybe even for free.
TLDR: Watch the IPL from anywhere with ExpressVPN
How to Watch IPL Live
Your best option for IPL live streaming is a service called JioCinema. This site will be live streaming all the games as they happen for free. However, it comes with two catches: the first is that you’ll need to be watching from India to access JioCinema (the site won’t even work if you’re in another country) and the second is that you’ll also need to have an Indian mobile phone number to create an account.
The first of these obstacles is relatively easy to overcome: JioCinema’s block simply excludes IP addresses, the numbers that form your address on the web, that aren’t based in India. Thankfully, there is a simple fix for this issue: you just use a VPN. A virtual private network can spoof an Indian IP address for you without any real hassle. Just find the right VPN, sign up, and connect to the country you want to pretend to be from.
Our favorite VPN service to watch IPL live is ExpressVPN, mainly thanks to how easily it can get past JioCinema’s blocks. It’s also very easy to use and, as you can read in our full ExpressVPN review, you can have it up and running on pretty much any device you fancy in just a few minutes. Not to mention, they offer a 30-day money-back guarantee if you decide to cancel your subscription!
How to Use ExpressVPN to Watch JioCinema
If you’ve decided that you want to watch the IPL live for free with JioCinema and you’re not in India, all you need to do is sign up to ExpressVPN and download the app. Once set up, simply connect to a server in India, which means you assume its IP address and it seems you’re in the country. Then, surf to the JioCinema site, download the app and create an account with an Indian mobile phone number.
If you don’t have an Indian phone number and don’t have a friend who has one you can borrow, you could always use a service like RingOver or Avoxi to get one. These services are pretty cheap to use, and generally you only need the phone number for signup and nothing beyond that.
Best VPN for watching IPL 2023
Other Ways to Watch IPL Live Matches
If you don’t have access to an Indian phone number and don’t want to deal with getting one, there are other ways to watch the IPL live, too. Currently, there are plenty of streaming services showing IPL matches, with our favorites being Sky Sports in the UK, Kayo Sports in Australia, and Yupp TV in the US. If you’re not in those countries, they all work really well with ExpressVPN and will stream all IPL 2024 matches.
As you may have guessed, to watch the live IPL matches, these services are region-locked to those countries. This means you need to spoof your IP address to get through to them. In all cases, ExpressVPN is the key to getting past these blocks. Depending on which streaming service you go with, simply reroute your connection via the closest UK, Australia, or US server, and the service will open up to you. It’s that easy.
Sky Sports in the UK
- £26 per month
- No free trial
- Choose the closest British server when connecting to ExpressVPN
- Go to Sky Sports, sign-up, and watch the IPL
Kayo Sports in Australia
- 25 AUD per month
- 14-day free trial
- Choose the closest Australian server when connecting to ExpressVPN
- Go to Kayo Sports, sign-up, and watch the IPL
Yupp TV in the US
- 10USD per month
- 14-day free trial
- Choose the closest American server when connecting to ExpressVPN
- Go to YuppTV, sign-up, and watch the IPL
Of course, signing up to a service like ExpressVPN doesn’t just get you access to IPL games. Once the tournament is over, you can use it to watch sports from all over the world. No matter if you want to live stream the NFL from Europe, ice hockey from Asia or the football World Cup from, well, anywhere, a VPN can help you do it.
On top of that, a good VPN will also let you unlock different regions’ libraries in Netflix and let you torrent without running the risk of fines. It can even secure your regular browsing, meaning less hassle from advertisers and marketers.
Check out ExpressVPN’s 30-day-money back guarantee to see what this provider can do for you.
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