As excitement builds for the 19th season of the Indian Premier League, attention is slowly shifting beyond the squads and towards the broadcast teams that narrate the tournament’s biggest moments. However, the IPL commentators and full expert panel for the upcoming edition has not yet been officially unveiled by the Board of Control for Cricket in India and its broadcasting partners.
IPL 2026 Commentators
In IPL 2026, the broadcast setup has become bigger than ever. With more than 170 experts speaking across 12 languages on the JioStar network (Star Sports on TV and JioHotstar digitally), fans now experience matches in a way that feels more personal and familiar.
English Commentary Panel for IPL 2026
The English Commentary panel in the Indian Premier League often includes celebrated names including legendary presenter Harsha Bhogle, Ravi Shastri, Ian Bishop among others. Here’s a probable list of commentators to grace the IPL 2026 English commentary panel:
Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Brian Lara, Matthew Hayden, Kevin Pietersen, Michael Clarke, Sanjay Manjrekar, Aaron Finch, Ian Bishop, Nick Knight, Simon Katich, Danny Morrison, Chris Morris, Samuel Badree, Katey Martin, Graeme Swann, Deep Dasgupta, Harsha Bhogle, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Anjum Chopra, Murali Kartik, WV Raman, Natalie Germanos, Daren Ganga, Mark Howard, Rohan Gavaskar
Hindi Commentary Panel for IPL 2026
Considering the wide Hindi audience, the Hindi commentary panel adds more prominence and excitement to the league. Here is a list of probable names to be included in the panel:
Jatin Sapru, Harbhajan Singh, Aakash Chopra, Sunil Gavaskar, Suresh Raina, Irfan Pathan, Varun Aaron, Mithali Raj, Mohammed Kaif, Sanjay Manjrekar, RP Singh, Anant Tyagi, Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim, Prayghan Ojha, Deep Dasgupta, Padmjeet Sehrawar, Rajat Bhatia, Imran Tahir, Unmukt Chand, Rajat Bhatia.
IPL 2026 Regional Language Commentary Panel
Over the last few years, IPL broadcasting has been expanded to regional languages including Tamil, Bhojpuri, Haryanvi among others, giving a personal experience to the audience across the nation.
Tamil Commentary Panel
K Srikkanth, S Badrinath, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Murali Vijay, Murugan Ashwin, N Jagadeesan, RJ Balaji, Yo Mahesh, Muthuraman R, KV Sathyanarayanan, Thirush Kamini, Bhavana Balakrishnan, Sastika Rajendran.
Abhinav Mukund, R Sridhar, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Baba Aparajith, Baba Indrajith, Anirudha Srikkanth, KB Arun Karthik, Sameena Anwar, Ashwath Bobo.
Telugu Commentary Panel
Ambati Rayudu, Mithali Raj, MSK Prasad, Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Kalyan Krishna D, Gnaneshwara Rao, Rakesh Deva Reddy, Daniel Manohar, Sasikanth Avulapalli, Ravi Rakle, M Anand Sri Krishna, Vindhya Medapati, Geeta Bhagat.
Hanuma Vihari, Venkatapathy Raju, Akshath Reddy, Ashish Reddy, Sandeep Bavanaka, Kalyan Kollarapu, RJ Hemanth, Pratyusha, RJ Koushik, Sunitha Anand.
Kannada Commentary Panel
Vijay Bharadwaj, Vinay Kumar, Gundappa Viswanath, Jagadeesh Suchith, NC Aiyappa, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra, Sreenath Aravind, Amit Verma, Veda Krishnamurthy, HS Sharath, Bharath Chipli, Sujay Shastry, Raghavendra Raj, Sumanth Bhat, Reena D’Souza, K Srinivas Murthy, Vasuki Koushik, Ankita Amar.
Marathi Commentary Panel
Kedar Jadhav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Siddhesh Lad, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Kunal Date.
Malayalam Commentary Panel
S Sreesanth, Sachin Baby, Rohan Prem, Raiphi Gomez, Sony Cheruvathur, Manu Krishnan, VA Jagadeesh, MD Nidish, Aju John Thomas, Renu Joseph, Binoy.
Gujarati Commentary Panel
Nayan Mongia, Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Kirat Damani, Shailendrasinh Jadeja, Ajay Jadeja, Manpreet Juneja, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Atul Bedade, RJ Aseem.
Bangla Commentary Panel
Ashok Dinda, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Gautam Bhattacharya, Sanjay Banerjee, Argha Bhattacharya, Jhulan Goswami, Subhomoy Das, Shreevats Goswami, Anustup Majumdar.
Haryanvi Commentary Panel
Virender Sehwag, Manvinder Bisla, Sonu Sharma, RJ Kisna, Ravin Kundu, Preeti Dahiya.
Bhojpuri Commentary Panel
Ravi Kishan, Mohd Saif, Shivam Singh, Satya Prakash, Gulam Hussain, Saurabh Kumar, Vishal Aditya Singh.
Punjabi Commentary Panel
Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Chetan Sharma, Sunil Taneja, Gurjit Singh, Balraj Syal.
