The 17th season of Indian Premier League – IPL 2024 will start with the league phase from March and conclude with the title clash on May 26. The BCCI has announced the schedule for the first two weeks, while the rest will be revealed after the election dates are released.
While the fans await to see their favourite stars in action on the field, there is also a craze among fans for commentators and the presenters, especially for the audience, who follow the live coverage on their television.
Star Sports Network is the official broadcast rights holder for the tournament in India, and they have released their star-studded list for the coverage from March 22 to May 26 featuring big names, who have called the game for decades alongside the latest voices analysing the game.
This year fans across India will witness the blockbuster cricketing event across 20 fully customised feeds on the Star Sports Network with almost 150 broadcasters, which includes IPL champions who have more than 40 IPL Titles among them, 12 IPL Team Coaches, 18 World Cup winners, 12 International Captains.
With representation from 15 Indian States and 6 countries beyond India, the broadcaster will bring together diverse views from across India and around the world. Here is a look on who is onboard for the coverage this season:
Who is doing commentary for IPL 2024 on Star Sports?
Star Sports Network will broadcast the IPL 2024 matches across channels in nine different languages. And have hence announced a huge panel for the different languages, including the likes of Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Ian Bishop, Pommie Mbangwa among others.
Here is a look at the language-wise commentators list, the pre, mid and post show cast and the presenters for IPL 2024 in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarati, Bangla:
IPL 2024 Commentators List for Star Sports
Star Sports English IPL 2024 commentary panel: Ravi Shastri, Brian Lara, Sunil Gavaskar, Matthew Hayden, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Clarke, Mark Howard, Ian Bishop, Aaron Finch, Nick Knight, Simon Katich, Danny Morrison, Chris Morris, Samuel Badree, Katey Martin, Graeme Swann, Deep Dasgupta, Harsha Bhogle, Pommie Mbangwa, Anjum Chopra, Murali Kartik, WV Raman, Natalie Germanos, Darren Ganga, Sanjay Manjrekar, Rohan Gavaskar.
International Starcast for Star Sports Cricket Live: Steve Smith, Stuart Binny, Dale Steyn, Jacques Kallis, Tom Moody, Paul Collingwood.
Star Sports Hindi IPL 2024 commentary panel: Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Varun Aaron, Mithali Raj, Mohammad Kaif, Sanjay Manjrekar, Imran Tahir, Wasim Jaffer, Gurkeerat Mann, Unmukt Chand, Vivek Razdan, Rajat Bhatia, Deep Dasgupta, Raman Bhanot, Padamjeet Sehrawat, Jatin Sapru.
Star Sports Tamil IPL 2024 commentary panel: Kris Srikkanth, S Badrinath, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Murali Balaji, Murugan Ashwin, N Jagadeesan, RJ Balaji, Yo Mahesh, Muthuraman R, KV Sathyanarayanan, Thirush Kamini, Bhavana Balakrishnan, Sastika Rajendran.
Star Sports Telugu IPL 2024 commentary panel: Ambati Rayudu, Mithali Raj, MSK Prasad, Venugopal Rao, Tirumalsetti Suman, Kalyan Krishna D, Gnaneshwara Rao, Rakesh Deva Reddy, Daniel Manohar, Sasikanth Avulapalli, Ravi Rakle, M Anand Sri Krishna, Vindhya Medapati, Geeta Bhagat.
Star Sports Kannada IPL 2024 commentary panel: Vijay Bharadwaj, Vinay Kumar, Gundappa Viswanath, Jagadeesh Suchith, NC Aiyappa, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra, GK Anil Kumar, Sumesh Goni, Shashank Suresh, Roopesh Shetty, Kiran Srinivas, Madhu Mailankody.
Star Sports Marathi IPL 2024 commentary panel: Paul Valthaty, Aditya Tare, Nilesh Natu, Prasad Kshirsagar, Sunil Vaidya.
Star Sports Malayalam IPL 2024 commentary panel: S Sreesanth, Tinu Yohannan, Shiyas Mohammad, Vishnu Hariharan, CM Deepak.
Star Sports Gujarati IPL 2024 commentary panel: Nayan Mongia, Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Kirat Damani, Shailendrasinh Jadeja.
Star Sports Bangla IPL 2024 commentary panel: Ashoke Dinda, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Gautam Bhattarcharya, Sanjay Banerjee, Argha Bhattacharya.
Who are the presenters for IPL 2024 pre show, mid show and post show?
IPL 2024 Star Sports Presenters: Mayanti Langer Binny, Jatin Sapru, Tanay Tiwari, Suren Sundaram, Erin Holland, Nashpreet Kaur, Swedha Singh, Sahiba Bali, Ocean Sharma, Puranjeet Dasgupta (RJ Mantra), Vrajesh Hirjee, Simaran Kaur, Raunak Kapoor, Grace Hayden, Somansh Dangwal Dheeraj Juneja.
Mark Hoover Mykhel
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