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A lack of Pay TV access in Australia's team hotel room has forced coaches and players to use iPads to watch the Cricket World Cup in England.

Australian players and staff are having to turn to tablets to watch World Cup matches with the tournament behind a pay wall in host country England.

As has been the case since the end of the 2005 Ashes, all international cricket content in England is broadcast by Sky Sports.

It theoretically makes the World Cup easier to view in Australia, with at least Aussie games and the tournament's finals on free-to-air television.

The Australians' hotel in Bristol does not have access to Sky, meaning players and staff have had to be given voucher codes to watch via a month pass.

Coach Justin Langer has taken advantage of the situation though, taking the broadcast of the opening game between England and South Africa onto the golf course with him.

"I'm a cricket tragic, this is like my fairy land," Langer said.

"I can sit and watch cricket every single day and tell people I am working, this is magic.

"I might have slipped in a game of golf this morning but it might have been on in the golf buggy. We'll be watching plenty of cricket."