IPL 2025 commentators

The 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) starts on March 22, 2025, and with it comes a star-studded panel of commentators. Legendary names like Matthew Hayden and Ravi Shastri return to the commentary box, alongside a mix of seasoned broadcasters like Harsha Bhogle, Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar, etc. The panel also features experts from around the world, including former IPL stars like Shane Watson, Michael Clarke, Mark Boucher, and Danny Morrison, among others.

List of IPL 2025 commentators

The IPL 2025 commentators are divided into categories, such as National Feed commentators, World Feed commentators, and regional commentators. Below are the lists of all IPL commentators in all categories.

National feed commentators

Name	Achievement(s)
Virender Sehwag	T20 World Cup winner (2007)
Shikhar Dhawan	2013 ICC Champions Trophy, IPL winner (2016)
Harbhajan Singh	ODI World Cup (2011), 4-time IPL winner (3 with MI, 1 with CSK)
Anil Kumble	2002 Champions Trophy winner
Suresh Raina	IPL winner (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021)
Kane Williamson	IPL winner (SRH 2016, GT 2022)
AB de Villiers	Former South African and RCB cricketer
Aaron Finch	T20 World Cup winner (2021)
Robin Uthappa	IPL winner (KKR 2012, 2014; CSK 2021)
Ambati Rayudu	IPL winner (MI 2013, 2015, 2017; CSK 2018, 2021, 2023)
Mohammad Kaif	Former Indian middle-order batsman and assistant coach (Delhi Capitals)
Piyush Chawla	IPL winner (2014)
Sunil Gavaskar	ODI World Cup winner (1983)
Navjot Singh Sidhu	Former Indian cricketer
Aakash Chopra	Former Indian cricketer
Sanjay Manjrekar	Former Indian cricketer
Michael Clarke	ODI World Cup winner (2015)
Matthew Hayden	ODI World Cup (2003, 2007) and IPL winner (2010)
Mark Boucher	Former South African cricketer
RP Singh	T20I World Cup winner (2007)
Shane Watson	ODI World Cup (2007, 2015) and IPL winner (2008, 2018)
Sanjay Bangar	Former Indian cricketer
Varun Aaron	Former Indian cricketer
Pragyan Ojha	IPL winner (2009, 2013, 2015)
Ajay Jadeja	Former Indian cricketer

World feed commentators

Name	Achievement(s)
Eoin Morgan	ODI World Cup winner (2019)
Graeme Swann	Former England cricketer
Harsha Bhogle	Cricket commentator
Simon Doull	Former New Zealand cricketer
Mpumelelo Mbangwa	Former Zimbabwe cricketer
Nick Knight	Former England cricketer
Danny Morrison	Former New Zealand cricketer
Ian Bishop	Former West Indies cricketer
Alan Wilkins	Former England cricketer
Daren Ganga	Former West Indies cricketer
Katey Martin	Former New Zealand women’s cricketer
Natalie Germanos	Cricket commentator
Ravi Shastri	ODI World Cup winner (1983)
Sunil Gavaskar	ODI World Cup winner (1983)
Matthew Hayden	ODI World Cup (2003, 2007) and IPL winner (2010)
Deep Dasgupta	Former Indian cricketer
Shane Watson	ODI World Cup (2007, 2015) and IPL winner (2008, 2018)
Michael Clarke	ODI World Cup winner (2015)
Aaron Finch	ODI World Cup winner (2015), T20 World Cup winner (2021)
Varun Aaron	Former Indian cricketer
Anjum Chopra	Former Indian cricketer
W V Raman	Former Indian cricketer
Murali Kartik	Former Indian cricketer

Regional commentators

To reach a wider audience across India, IPL commentary is offered in various regional languages.

Hindi commentators	Harbhajan Singh, Irfan Pathan, Ambati Rayudu, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Varun Aaron, Mithali Raj, Mohammad Kaif, Sanjay Manjrekar, Imran Tahir, Wasim Jaffer, Gurkeerat Mann, Unmukt Chand, Vivek Razdan, Rajat Bhatia, Deep Dasgupta, Raman Bhanot, Padmjeet Sehrawar, Jatin Sapru, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Parthiv Patel, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Aakash Chopra, Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim, Anant Tyagi, Ridhima Pathak
Bengali commentators	Ashok Dinda, Abhishek Jhunjhunwala, Gautam Bhattacharya, Sanjay Banerjee, Argha Bhattacharya, Jhulan Goswami, Subhomoy Das, Shreevats Goswami, Anustup Majumdar
Tamil commentators	K Srikkanth, S Badrinath, Lakshmipathi Balaji, Murali Vijay, Murugan AshwinN Jagadeesan, RJ Balaji, Yo Mahesh, Muthuraman R, KV SathyanarayananThirush Kamini, Bhavana Balakrishnan, Sastika Rajendran, Abhinav Mukund,R Sridhar, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan
Kannada commentators	Vijay Bharadwaj, Vinay Kumar, Gundappa Viswanath, Jagadeesh SuchithNC Aiyappa, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra, GK Anil Kumar, Sumesh Goni, Sreenath Aravind, Amit Verma, Veda Krishnamurthy, HS Sharath,Bharath Chipli, Sujay Shastry
Telegu commentators	Ambati Rayudu, Mithali Raj, MSK Prasad, Venugopal Rao, T Suman, Kalyan Krishna D, Gnaneshwara Rao, Rakesh Deva Reddy, Daniel Manohar, Sasikanth Avulapalli, Ravi Rakle, M Anand Sri Krishna, Vindhya Medapati, Geeta Bhagat,Hanuma Vihari
Punjabi commentators	Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Chetan Sharma, Sunil Taneja, Gurjit Singh, Balraj Syal
Haryanvi commentators	Virender Sehwag, Manvinder Bisla, Sonu Sharma, RJ Kisna, Ravin Kundu,Preeti Dahiya
Marathi commentators	Paul Valthaty, Aditya Tare, Nilesh Natu, Prasad Kshirsagar, Sunil Vaidya, Kedar Jadhav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Siddhesh Lad, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Kunal Date
Malayalam commentators	S Sreesanth, Tinu Yohannan, Shiyas Mohammad, Vishnu Hariharan, CM Deepak, Sachin Baby, Rohan Prem, Raiphi Gomez, Sony Cheruvathur, Manu Krishnan, VA Jagadeesh, MD Nidish
Gujarati commentators	Nayan Mongia, Manan Desai, Akash Trivedi, Kirat Damani, Shailendrasinh Jadeja, Ajay Jadeja, Manpreet Juneja, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Sheldon Jackson, Atul Bedade, RJ Aseem
Bhojpuri commentators	Ravi Kishan, Mohd Saif, Shivam Singh, Satya Prakash, Gulam Hussain, Saurabh Kumar, Vishal Aditya Singh, Shalinee Singh, Sumit Kumar