My friend had one GB of internet usage allowance on his mobile

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My friend had one GB of internet usage allowance on his mobile. He wanted to watch a match on his phone. If he had done so, his data would have ended before "the match ended" or "before the ending of the match".

Please check my sentences.
 

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He would have run out of data before the match ended.
 

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Change one GB to 1GB.
 

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My friend's mobile data allowance was 1GB. He wanted to watch a [name of sport] match on his phone but he didn't have enough data.
 

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My friend had 1GB of internet usage allowance on his mobile. He wanted to watch a cricket match on his phone. If he had done so, he would have run out of data before the cricket match ended or before the end of the cricket match.
 

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Are you suggesting the entire contents of post #6 as the finished version or are you asking us to choose between "before the cricket match ended" and "before the end of the cricket match"?
 

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It is the finished version. I was suggested two different ways so I used both.
 
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It is the finished version. I was suggesting two different ways so I used both.
You can only put them in the same sentence if you use a slash - like this:

My friend had 1GB of internet usage allowance on his mobile. He wanted to watch a cricket match on his phone. If he had done so, he would have run out of data before the cricket match ended/before the end of the cricket match.

You are still repeating words or terms unnecessarily. Consider this:

My friend had 1GB of internet usage allowance on his mobile. He wanted to watch a cricket match on his phone. If he had done so, he would have run out of data before it finished.
 
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