But India losing the Semi Final is not what fans wanted - they wanted to watch India and Pakistan play Final together
That would have been the biggest bet of century have that had happened.
Would have got repetitive. We had multiple matches between India and Pakistan during the Asia Cup, and then we had another match during the T20 World Cup. There may be viewer fatigue. It will be interesting to see how many are going to tune in to watch the final match in Hotstar, given the fact that India has been kicked out of the world cup. The media rights holders (for both TV and online streaming platforms) would have hoped that India would feature in the final, but that didn't happened. Now it needs to be seen how that will impact their advertisement revenues.
No doubt Indian absence from final going to have big impact on viewer's presence on both TV and online streaming and media right holders are going to suffer big amount because Indians are crazy about this game with specially they love to be watch Indian players even I still believe this could be going good but still not like which happen in presence of India but sadly every time you can't go with this other teams are also coming here for play and win which already happening and media rights holders surely understand this all.
For me right now after India Pakistan is the biggest market and with now we have final between England vs Pakistan we can expect good number of fans around the world will watch this final and have good entertainment which is also going to be not bad at all.