The brand-new season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) is just around the corner. With the first match of the season scheduled on 31 March between the defending champions Gujarat Titans and the four-time winners Chennai Super Kings, there is a sense of excitement among the fans for the start of the cash-rich league.
The official television broadcasters of the tournament has now released a star-studded commentary line-up for the competition. It is pertinent to note that this will be the first time in history of the tournament that there will be a separate broadcast and live streaming partners and both are competing against each other to grab the maximum number of eyeballs.
In a bid to do just that, Star Sports, where one can tune in to watch the IPL matches on television this year, has included some of the legends of the game like Sunil Gavaskar, Jacques Kallis, Matthew Hayden and Virender Sehwag in their commentary panel. In addition, they have confirmed that they will be providing the feed of their coverage in as many as nine languages.
However, the list does not include some of the prominent names like Ian Bishop, Ravi Shastri and Harsha Bhogle who have been an integral part of the tournament's broadcast in the past. While all three of them are expected to cover the tournament, they could be part of the world feed of the broadcast.
Commentary Panel Of Official Television Broadcasters Of IPL 2023
English: Sunil Gavaskar, Jacques Kallis, Matthew Hayden, Kevin Pietersen, Aaron Finch, Tom Moody, Paul Collingwood, Daniel Vettori, Daniel Morrison, David Hussey
Hindi: Virender Sehwag, Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Yusuf Pathan, Mithali Raj, Mohd Kaif, Sanjay Manjrekar, Imran Tahir, Deep Dasgupta, Ajay Mehra, Padamjeet Sehrawat & Jatin Sapru, K Srikkanth, S Badrinath, Lakshmipathi Balaji, S Ramesh, Murali Vijay
Tamil: RJ Balaji, Yomahesh, Muthuraman R, KV Sathyanarayanan, Thirush Kamini
Telugu: MSK Prasad, Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Kalyan Krishna D, Ashish Reddy, Kaushik NC, Anchor Ravi Rakle
Kannada: Vijay Bharadwaj, Srinivasa Murthy P, Bharath Chipli, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra, GK Anil Kumar, Sumesh Goni, Gundappa Vishwanath, Roopesh Shetty
Marathi: Amol Muzumdar, Sandeep Patil, Aditya Tare, Nilesh Natu, Prasad Kshirsagar
Malayalam: S Sreesanth, Tinu Yohannan, Shiyas Mohammad, Vishnu Hariharan
Gujarati: Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Nayan Mongia
Bangla: Ashoke Dinda, RJ Varun Kaushik, Pradip Roy, Pallab Basu, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala