This IPL 2023 will be a different one as the live streaming of the entire tournament will be done by JioCinema for free in top video quality. Jio, owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, won the bid for digital streaming rights of IPL 2023 beating Disney Hotstar and others last year.
Meanwhile, ahead of the tournament opener on March 31, Friday, JioCinema has roped in cricket’s who’s who for its expert panels across 12 languages. The tournament will be streamed in English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Oriya, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada.
The likes of Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Brett Lee, Zaheer Khan, Anil Kumble, Suresh Raina and others will be on hand to offer commentary as well as analysis.
Apart from the commentary and experts panel, JioCinema will offer four additional feeds for their IPL coverage this year - the insiders’ feed, lifestyle feed, fantasy feed and fanzone feed.
The insiders’ feed will give an exclusive sneak peek into what goes on behind the scenes, with unheard stories and conversations from the dressing rooms. The lifestyle feed will give the fans a view beyond cricket through the eyes of individuals from various walks of life, led by Sania Mirza and Anjum Chopra.
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Fantasy feed will give viewers the latest fantasy information during the live coverage of IPL matches and the fanzone feed will pit fans of IPL teams against each other both before and during a match.
Here is the commentary panel of JioCinema for IPL 2023:
English- Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Eoin Morgan, Brett Lee, Graeme Swann, Graeme Smith, Scott Styris, Sanjana Ganesan, Supriya Singh, Suhail Chandok
Hindi- Owais Shah, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Aakash Chopra, Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim, Anant Tyagi, Ridhima Pathak, Surbhi Vaid, Glen Saldhana
Marathi- Kedar Jadhav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Siddesh Lad, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Kunal Date, Vikat Patil, Poorvi Bhave
Gujarati- Manpreet Juneja, Vrijesh Hirjee, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Nishat Mehta, Shreyum Mehta, Karan Mehta, Aseem
Bhojpuri- Mohd Saif, Shivam Singh, Satya Prakash, Gulam Hussain, Saurabh Verma, Kunal Aditya Singh, Vishal Aditya Singh, Sneh Upadhyay, Dimpal Singh
Bengali- Jhulan Goswami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Saurashish Lahiri, Subhomoy Das, Shreevats Goswami, Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Saradindu Mukherjee, Anindya Sengupta, Shaheb
Oriya- Debashish Mohanty, Basanta Mohanty, Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Biplab Samantray, Gourab Panda, Loriya Mohanty, Shovna Mishra
Malayalam- Sachin Baby, Rohan Prem, Sony Cheruvathur, VA Jagadeesh, Mohd Rafiq, Aju John Thomas, Renu Joseph, Sithara, Binoy
Kannada- Venkatesh Prasad, S Aravind, Amit Verma, Veda Krishnamurthy, H Sharath, Sujay Shastry, Deepak Chougle, Raghavendra Raj, Sumanth Bhat, Reena D’souza, Hitha Chandrasekar, Ankita Amar
Tamil- Abhinav Mukund, R Sridhar, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Baba Aprajith, Baba Indrajith, Anirudha Srikanth, KB Arun Karthik, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, Sanjay Paul, Sreenivasan Radhakrishnan, Sameena Anwar, Gayathri Suresh
Telugu- Hanuma Vihari, Venkatapathy Raju, Akshath Reddy, DB Ravi Teja, Sandeep Bavanaka, Kalyan Kollarapu, RJ Hemanth, Jyothi Ramana, Pratyusha, Gnaneswari
Punjabi- Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Sunil Taneja, Atul Wassan, Gurjeet Singh, Palak Sharma
(News18 inputs)
