There will be no Wasim Akram behind the mic at the ICC ODI World Cup. Even though he was part of the commentary panel at the Asia Cup, he misses out. Instead, his pace partner Waqar Younis and teammate Ramiz Raja will be from Pakistan. The distinguished World Cup commentary panel will also include three-time WC winner Ricky Ponting and Eoin Morgan, who led England to the 2019 WC title. From India, Sunil Gavaskar will be joined by the iconic voice of Ravi Shastri and Harsha Bhogle apart from Dinesh Karthik.
ICC’s match coverage will include a pre-match show, mid-innings programme and a post-match wrap-up. A distinguished commentary panel featuring cricketing legends will provide insights and analysis that bring fans closer to the game than ever before.
ICC ODI World Cup Commentary Panel
Australia: Ricky Ponting, Shane Watson, Lisa Sthalekar, Aaron Finch, Matthew Hayden, Mark Nicholas, Dirk Nannes, Mark Howard
England: Eoin Morgan, Nasser Hussain, Michael Atherton, Ian Ward
India: Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Anjum Chopra, Sanjay Manjrekar, Dinesh Karthik, Harsha Bhogle, K Srikkanth, Gautam Gambhir, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Piyush Chawla, S Sreesanth, MSK Prasad, Sandeep Patil, Sunil Joshi, Mithali Raj
Pakistan: Ramiz Raja, Waqar Younis
Bangladesh: Athar Ali Khan
New Zealand: Ian Smith, Simon Doull, Katey Martin
West Indies: Ian Bishop, Samuel Badree
South Africa: Shaun Pollock, Kass Naidoo, Natalie Germanos
Zimbabwe: Mpumelelo Mbangwa
Sri Lanka: Russel Arnold
Regional Language commentators:
Tamil: S Badrinath, Murali Vijay, Yomahesh Vijayakumar, Russel Arnold, Hemang Badani, S Ramesh
Telugu: Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Ashish Reddy, Kalyan Krishna
Kannada: Vinay Kumar, Gundappa Viswanath, Vijay Bharadwaj, Bharath Chipli, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra
Gujarati: Nayan Mongia, Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Deep Vaidya
Marathi: Amol Muzumdar, Lalchand Rajput, Pravin Tambe
Malayalam: Tinu Yohannan, Raiphi Gomez
Bengali: A Jhunjhunwala, and Ashoke Dinda
