The IPL 2026 Commentators lineup was officially revealed by JioStar on March 27, bringing together famous voices like Sunil Gavaskar, Ravi Shastri, Harsha Bhogle, and Brian Lara. For the first time,
Fans can watch matches on JioHotstar with a special digital feed featuring IPL champions. The panel includes experts across English, Hindi, and regional languages, along with presenters like Mayanti Langer, making IPL 2026 more exciting, detailed, and easy to enjoy for every cricket fan.
The IPL 2026 Commentators team brings a huge and diverse experience, with more than 150 presenters and experts working across over 20 live feeds on JioHotstar and Star Sports. Matches are available in English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu,
Kannada on TV, while JioHotstar goes further with 12 languages, including Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Haryanvi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, and Malayalam. It also adds Indian Sign Language and audio descriptive feeds, making IPL 2026 easy to follow for every type of fan.
The IPL 2026 Commentators setup introduces a new Hindi watch-along feed on JioHotstar, where stars like Ravichandran Ashwin, Suresh Raina, Harbhajan Singh, Virender Sehwag, Irfan Pathan, Umesh Yadav, Cheteshwar Pujara, and Aakash Chopra share match insights and real dressing room stories during live games.
The Tamil feed adds Russel Arnold and RJ Balaji, while voices like Manvinder Bisla, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Ajay Jadeja, Kiran More, and S Badrinath return, making coverage more engaging.
| No. |
Commentator Name |
Role |
| 1 |
Sunil Gavaskar |
Former India legend and expert analyst |
| 2 |
Ravi Shastri |
Former India coach and energetic voice |
| 3 |
Harsha Bhogle |
Popular presenter and analyst |
| 4 |
Brian Lara |
Legendary batsman and expert |
| 5 |
Matthew Hayden |
Former opener with strong insights |
| 6 |
Kevin Pietersen |
Bold and modern cricket analyst |
| 7 |
Ian Bishop |
Calm and knowledgeable commentator |
| 8 |
Danny Morrison |
Energetic and entertaining voice |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Ravichandran Ashwin |
| 2 |
Virender Sehwag |
| 3 |
Irfan Pathan |
| 4 |
Harbhajan Singh |
| 5 |
Suresh Raina |
| 6 |
Anil Kumble |
| 7 |
Navjot Singh Sidhu |
| 8 |
Sanjay Bangar |
| 9 |
Piyush Chawla |
| 10 |
Mohammad Kaif |
| 11 |
Ajay Jadeja |
| 12 |
Umesh Yadav |
| 13 |
Cheteshwar Pujara |
| 14 |
Aakash Chopra |
| 15 |
Saba Karim |
| 16 |
Padamjeet Sehrawat |
| 17 |
Anant Tyagi |
| 18 |
Deep Dasgupta |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
RJ Balaji |
| 2 |
Muthuraman |
| 3 |
Vishnu Hariharan |
| 4 |
Ashwath Bobo |
| 5 |
KV Satyanarayan |
| 6 |
Subramaniam Badrinath |
| 7 |
Yo Mahesh |
| 8 |
Sadagopan Ramesh |
| 9 |
Thirush Kamini |
| 10 |
Baba Aparajith |
| 11 |
Baba Indrajith |
| 12 |
R Sridhar |
| 13 |
Russel Arnold |
| 14 |
Abhinav Mukund |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
MSK Prasad |
| 2 |
Hanuma Vihari |
| 3 |
NC Kaushik |
| 4 |
T Suman |
| 5 |
Kalyan Krishna |
| 6 |
Ashish Reddy |
| 7 |
Akshath Reddy |
| 8 |
Ravi Teja |
| 9 |
Kalyan Kollarappu |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Vinay Kumar |
| 2 |
Vijay Bharadwaj |
| 3 |
Srinivas Murthy |
| 4 |
Kiran Srinivasa |
| 5 |
Sumesh Goni |
| 6 |
Shashank Suresh |
| 7 |
Bharat Chipli |
| 8 |
K Gowtham |
| 9 |
Pavan Deshpande |
| 10 |
GK Anil |
| 11 |
B Akhil |
| 12 |
J Suchith |
| 13 |
Veda Krishnamurthy |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Sumit Mishra |
| 2 |
Saurabh Singh |
| 3 |
Shivam Singh |
| 4 |
Gulam Hussain |
| 5 |
Satya Prakash |
| 6 |
Abhay Kumar |
| 7 |
Jwala Singh |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Sarandeep Singh |
| 2 |
Chetan Sharma |
| 3 |
Rahul Sharma |
| 4 |
VRV Singh |
| 5 |
Reetinder Singh Sodhi |
| 6 |
Mandeep Singh |
| 7 |
Gurjit Singh |
| 8 |
Sunil Taneja |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Manvinder Bisla |
| 2 |
Anil Chaudhary |
| 3 |
Sonu Sharma |
| 4 |
Ajit R |
| 5 |
Ashish Hooda |
| 6 |
Sumit Narwal |
| 7 |
Vishwaas |
| 8 |
Ravin Kundu |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Dhawal Kulkarni |
| 2 |
Kiran More |
| 3 |
Salil Ankola |
| 4 |
Aditya Tare |
| 5 |
Prasad Kshirsagar |
| 6 |
Praveen Tambe |
| 7 |
Prasanna Sant |
| 8 |
Chaitanya Sant |
| 9 |
Ganesh Joshi |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Sheldon Jackson |
| 2 |
Nayan Mongia |
| 3 |
Atul Bedade |
| 4 |
Rakesh Patel |
| 5 |
Bhargav Bhatt |
| 6 |
Aseem Parikh |
| 7 |
Akash Trivedi |
| 8 |
Manpreet Juneja |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Sachin Baby |
| 2 |
Vishnu Hariharan |
| 3 |
VA Jagadeesh |
| 4 |
CM Deepak |
| 5 |
Rohan Prem |
| 6 |
Sony Cheravatur |
| 7 |
Raiphi Gomez |
| 8 |
Manu Krishnan |
| 9 |
MD Nideesh |
| 10 |
Aju John Thomas |
| No. |
Commentator Name |
| 1 |
Shreevats Goswami |
| 2 |
Jhulan Goswami |
| 3 |
Saradindu Mukherjee |
| 4 |
RJ Varun |
| 5 |
Sanjeeb Mukherjea |
| 6 |
Subhomoy Das |
| 7 |
Shiladitya Chatterjee |
| 8 |
Anustup Majumdar |
| 9 |
Raja Venkatraman |
| 10 |
Gautam Bhattacharya |
IPL 2026 Presenters
| No. |
Presenter Name |
| 1 |
Mayanti Langer Binny |
| 2 |
Tanay Tiwari |
| 3 |
Bhavna Balakrishnan |
| 4 |
Suren Sundaram |
| 5 |
Swedha Bahal |
| 6 |
Nidhi Dugar |
| 7 |
Natasha Cheriath |
| 8 |
Sahiba Bali |
| 9 |
Nashy Singh |
| 10 |
Sameena Anwar |
| 11 |
Vindhya M |
| 12 |
Prathyusha Sadu |
| 13 |
Roopesh Shetty |
| 14 |
Madhu M |
| 15 |
Reena D Souza |
| 16 |
Debi Saha |
| 17 |
Shalinee Singh |
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