ODI World Cup 2023 Commentators List: Ahead of the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 start, the hosting board have announced the commentators list for the tournament.
As per ICC Men’s Cricket ODI World Cup 2023 schedule, England and New Zealand will play the first match of the tournament on October 5 at Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad. A total of 48 matches will be played between 10 participating teams across 10 venues in different cities across India.
It will be the first time the competition is held entirely in India; three previous editions were partially hosted there – 1987, 1996, and 2011. As of the previous edition, the 2023 edition will also follow the same format where each participating team will play the other nine teams once in the group stage where a total of 45 group matches will be played.
The top 4 teams of the ICC ODI World Cup points table will enter the knockout stage to play semifinal 1 and semifinal 2.
ODI World Cup 2023 Commentators List
ODI World Cup 2023 Commentators List: More international icons and former captains will be joined in on the fun by former international stars including Simon Doull, Mpumelelo Mbangwa, Sanjay Manjrekar and many others.
Check out the full list of ODI World Cup 2023 Commentators List with their nationality below:
Commentators – Former Cricketers
Commentator | Nationality |
Ricky Ponting | Australia |
Eoin Morgan | England and Ireland |
Shane Watson | Australia |
Lisa Sthalekar | Australia |
Ramiz Raja | Pakistan |
Ravi Shastri | India |
Aaron Finch | Australia |
Sunil Gavaskar | India |
Matthew Hayden | Australia |
Ian Smith | New Zealand |
Nasser Hussain | England |
Ian Bishop | Trinidad – West Indies |
Waqar Younis | Pakistan |
Shaun Pollock | South Africa |
Anjum Chopra | India |
Michael Atherton | England |
Simon Doull | New Zealand |
Mpumelelo Mbangwa | Zimbabwe |
Sanjay Manjrekar | India |
Katey Martin | New Zealand |
Dinesh Karthik | India |
Dirk Nannes | Australia and Netherlands |
Samuel Badree | Trinidad – West Indies |
Athar Ali Khan | Bangladesh |
Russel Arnold | Sri Lanka |
Commentators – Broadcasters
The panel will be rounded off by some of the leading broadcasters in the world. Check out the ODI World Cup 2023 Commentators List below:
Commentator | Nationality |
Harsha Bhogle | India |
Kass Naidoo | South Africa |
Mark Nicholas | England |
Natalie Germanos | Australia |
Mark Howard | Australia |
Ian Ward | England |
Star Sports commentators
Apart from the ICC, the broadcaster Star Sports will also appoint regional commentators for the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023. Check out the ICC Men’s ODI World Cup 2023 commentators for regional languages below:
Tamil
- S. Badrinath
- Murali Vijay
- Yomahesh
- Vijayakumar
- Russel Arnold
- Hemang Badani
- S Ramesh
- RJ Balaji(Actor)
Telugu
- Venugopal Rao
- T Suman
- Ashish Reddy
- Kalyan Krishna
Kannada
- Vinay Kumar
- Gundappa Viswanath
- Vijay Bharadwaj
- Bharath Chipli
- Pavan Deshpande
- Akhil Balachandra
Gujarati
- Manan Desai
- Akash Trivedi
- Deep Vaidya
- Nayan Mongia
Marathi
- Amol Muzumdar
- Lalchand Rajput
- Pravin Tambe
Malayalam
- Tinu Yohannan
- Raiphi Gomez
Bangla feed
- Abhishek Jhunjhunwala
- Ashoke Dinda
Others commentators
- K Srikkanth
- Gautam Gambhir
- Irfan Pathan
- Harbhajan Singh
- S Sreesanth
- Dale Steyn
- Kevin Pietersen
- Faf du Plessis
- Imran Tahir
- Deep Dasgupta
- Mohammad Kaif
- Mithali Raj