MUMBAI: Disney Hotstar is all set with a star-studded commentary team for IPL cricket which starts on Saturday. A commentary panel of 85 people, including former international players, is ready to engage the people. This time the game will be described in nine languages including Malayalam. In addition, another commentary panel has been set up for international cricket fans which includes Harsha Bhogle and Sunil Gavaskar.
Former Indian cricketers Harbhajan Singh and Suresh Raina will make their debut in IPL commentary this season. Apart from these two, former stars Piyush Chawla and Dhawal Kulkarni are also newcomers to the commentary.
Ravi Shastri and Mayanti Langer are also returning to the commentary panel after a break.
Former Indian cricketer and Kerala Ranji coach Tinu Yohannan, Vishnu Hariharan, Shiyas Mohammed, Raiphi Gomez and C M Deepak are the Malayalam commentators.
Commentary panel: World feed: Harsha Bhogle, Sunil Gavaskar, Laxman Sivaramakrishnan, Murali Karthik, Deep Dasgupta, Anjum Chopra, Ian Bishop, Alan Wilkins, Pommie Mbangwa, Nick Knight, Danny Morrison, Simon Doull, Mathew Hayden, Kevin Pietersen
Hindi commentators list: Aakash Chopra, Irfan Pathan, Gautam Gambhir, Parthiv Patel, Nikhil Chopra, Tanya Purohit, Kiran More, Jatin Sapru, Suren Sundaram, Ravi Shastri, Suresh Raina.
Tamil commentators list : Bhavana Balakrishnan, Muthuraman R, RK, Bhavna, RJ Balaji, S Badrinath, Abhinav Mukund, S Ramesh, Nanee & K Srikkanth.
Kannada commentators list: Madhu Mailankody, Kiran Srinivas, Srinivasa Murthy P, Vijay Bharadwaj, Bharath Chipli, GK Anil Kumar, Venkatesh Prasad, Veda Krishnamurthy, Sumesh Goni, and Vinay Kumar R.
Telugu commentators list for IPL 2022: MAS Krishna, N Matcha, V V Medapati, MSK Prasad, A Reddy, K N Chakravarthy, S Avulapalli, Kalyan Krishna D, Venugopalarao.
Marathi commentators list: Kunal Date, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Snehal Pradhan, Sandeep Patil.
Bengali commentators list: Sanjeeb Mukherjea, Saradindu Mukherjee, Gautam Bhattacharya, Joydeep Mukherjee, Debasish Datta.
Malayalam commentators list: Vishnu Hariharan, Shiyas Mohammed, Tinu Yohannan, Raiphi Gomez and C M Deepak.
Gujarati commentators list: Karan Mehta, Manan Desai, Dhwanith Thackeray, Aakash Trivedi, Manpreet Juneja, Nayan Mongia