JioCinema has revealed a star-studded commentary panel for the upcoming season of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2024). IPL 2024 will kick off with the inaugural match between defending champions Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) at MA Chidambaram International Cricket Stadium in Chennai on March 22.
IPL 2024 will be broadcast live on JioCinema for free in 12 languages- English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada, with Haryanvi making its debut.
Virender Sehwag will headline the newly introduced Haryanvi language presentation on JioCinema. Ajay Jadeja will make his debut as a Gujarati language expert. The former India captain and MI Emirates batting coach will also feature in Hindi and Hangout feeds.
The addition of IPL champion Shane Watson and former New Zealand coach and director of Cricket at Royal Challengers Bengaluru (formerly Royal Challengers Bangalore) Mike Hesson, Sehwag, and Jadeja will further deepen JioCinema’s key proposition of providing fans inside access from key members who until recently shared the dressing room with top franchisees.
After playing for Delhi Daredevils (now Delhi Capitals) and Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings), Sehwag took on a mentor’s role with the Punjab franchise. This time, fans will witness him in the Haryanvi language. Manvinder Bisla, man of the match of the 2012 IPL Final, will also join Sehwag in the Haryanvi feed.
After winning titles with Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings, Watson continues his journey in the TATA IPL with JioCinema. He won the Player of the Tournament in the inaugural season with the Royals while his match-winning 117 for CSK in the 2018 Final against Sunrisers Hyderabad has gone down as one of the best knocks ever in the IPL.
Mike Hesson, one of the sharpest minds in cricket, will extend his journey with the TATA IPL as an expert with JioCinema. After having coached Kings XI Punjab, and worked as a director of cricket operations with the Royal Challengers Bengaluru, the Kiwi pro will sit alongside some of the most iconic players he coached in the IPL including Chris Gayle and AB de Villiers.
“The response we got for our deep and wide presentation of the TATA IPL 2023 from our viewers, advertisers, and cricket fanatics was heartening and we are doubling down on our innovations and initiatives for TATA IPL 2024. This season we continue to elevate the experience with bigger names, deeper engagement with core, casual and curious fans through unique propositions like Hero Cam, Viral Weekends and the introduction of Haryanvi feed headlined by the iconic Virender Sehwag,” said Viacom18 Sports Head of Content Siddharth Sharma.
JioCinema will offer a total of eighteen feeds this year, including last year’s popular Insiders and Hangout feeds, newly introduced Hero Cam feed and a new proposition called Viral Weekend. Through the 2024 season, JioCinema will bring over 100 popular social content creators across every language, every weekend, to spawn conversations, anecdotes, and banter on the biggest sports proposition in the country along with the star experts.
IPL 2024 Hero Cam Feed
Hero Cam, JioCinema’s latest camera angle addition this season, allows a viewer to follow all the live action and also the biggest hero within the game as the match unfolds. This allows viewers an up, close, personal, and uninterrupted view of how their heroes go about the game and gives a sense of feeling closer to them right in between the match. This will be accompanied by more camera angles that viewers can choose from.
IPL 2024 Insiders Feed
The Insiders feed is built on JioCinema’s core proposition of making the TATA IPL’s entertainment more accessible to viewers by giving them a peek into unheard tales, anecdotes, and conversations from dressing rooms, narrated by JioCinema’s experts who until recently rubbed shoulders with current players across different teams. Fans will be able to get into the player’s mind from the expert’s viewpoint and understand the thought process behind the gameplay as live-action plays out on screen.
IPL 2024 Hangout Feed
The Hangout feed will give fans a light-hearted and quirky take on the competitive league through new-age content creators and popular stand-up comics like Angad Singh, Vipul Goyal, Aaditya Kulshreshth, and Shashi Dhiman among others. This feed will present quintessential TATA IPL action that is expected to draw first-time viewers and non-sports audiences and augment the league’s viewership.
IPL 2024 commentators List on JioCinema
- JioCinema English IPL 2024 Commentators: Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Eoin Morgan, Brett Lee, Mike Hesson, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Graeme Smith, Scott Styris, Sanjana Ganesan, Suhail Chandhok.
- JioCinema Hindi IPL 2024 Commentators: Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Aakash Chopra, Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim, Anant Tyagi, Ridhima Pathak.
- JioCinema Tamil IPL 2024 Commentators: Abhinav Mukund, R Sridhar, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Baba Aparajith, Baba Indrajith, Anirudha Srikkanth, KB Arun Karthik, Sameena Anwar, Ashwath Bobo.
- JioCinema Telugu IPL 2024 Commentators: Hanuma Vihari, Venkatapathy Raju, Akshath Reddy, Ashish Reddy, Sandeep Bavanaka, Kalyan Kollarapu, RJ Hemanth, Pratyusha, RJ Koushik, Sunitha Anand.
- JioCinema Kannada IPL 2024 Commentators: 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.
- JioCinema Marathi IPL 2024 Commentators: Kedar Jadhav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Siddhesh Lad, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Kunal Date.
- JioCinema Malayalam IPL 2024 Commentators: Sachin Baby, Rohan Prem, Raiphi Gomez, Sony Cheruvathur, Manu Krishnan, VA Jagadeesh, MD Nidish, Aju John Thomas, Renu Joseph, Binoy.
- JioCinema Haryanvi IPL 2024 Commentators: Virender Sehwag, Manvinder Bisla, Sonu Sharma, RJ Kisna, Ravin Kundu, Preeti Dahiya.
- JioCinema Gujarati IPL 2024 Commentators: Ajay Jadeja, Manpreet Juneja, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Sheldon Jackson, Atul Bedade, RJ Aseem.
- JioCinema Bangla IPL 2024 Commentators: Jhulan Goswami, Subhomoy Das, Shreevats Goswami, Anustup Majumdar, Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Saradindu Mukherjee, Anindya Sengupta, Debi Saha.
- JioCinema Bhojpuri IPL 2024 Commentators: Ravi Kishan, Mohd Saif, Shivam Singh, Satya Prakash, Gulam Hussain, Saurabh Kumar, Vishal Aditya Singh, Shalinee Singh, Sumit Kumar, Ashutosh Aman.
- JioCinema Punjabi IPL 2024 Commentators: Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Chetan Sharma, Sunil Taneja, Gurjit Singh, Balraj Syal.
- IPL hangout show in JioCinema: Vipul Goyal, Angad Singh R, Aditya Kulshreshth, Inder Sahani, Ashish Solanki, Shashi Dhiman, Kunal Saluja.
