The 2023 Asia Cup starts on August 30: here’s all you need to know about the commentators and presenters for the tournament, including the full list of commentators and presenters.
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The 16th edition of the Asia Cup will be played in the 50-over format and will be hosted by Pakistan. This will be the first time since the 2008 Asia Cup that the tournament will be played in Pakistan, albeit partially.
The 13-match event will be jointly held across Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the former hosting four games and the latter nine due to India’s refusal to travel to Pakistan owing to political tensions between the two countries.
The 2023 Asia Cup will have six teams participating, with Nepal making its debut in the tournament. The teams are divided into two groups of three each to start with. The top two teams from both groups will qualify for the Super Fours where each team will play three games. The top two teams will then contest in the final at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on September 17.
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The tournament starts with hosts Pakistan taking on Nepal in Multan. That will be the only match to be played in Multan, with the other three matches in Pakistan to be played in Lahore. India will play all their matches in Sri Lanka.
Asia Cup 2023: List of commentators and presenters
English
Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis, Matthew Hayden, Andy Flower, Marvan Atapattu, Sanjay Manjrekar, Deep Dasgupta, Shamim Chowdhury, Bazid Khan, Roshan Abeysinghe, Dominic Cork and Aamer Sohail.
Hindi
Ravi Shastri, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir Irfan Pathan, Piyush Chawla, Sanjay Bangar, Mohammad Kaif, Aditya Tare, Padamjeet Sehrawat, Rajat Bhatia, Jatin Sapru and Raman Bhanot.
Telugu
MSK Prasad, Venugopal Rao, NC Kaushik, Ashish Reddy, T Suman and Kalyan Krishna
Tamil
Muthuraman R, Nanee, RJ Balaji, S Badrinath, Yomahesh Vijayakumar, S Sriram, S Ramesh, and K Srikkanth.
Kannada
Vijay Bharadwaj, Srinivasa Murthy P, Bharath Chipli, Vinay Kumar, Pavan Deshpande, and Sunil Joshi.
Presenters
Jatin Sapru, Mayanti Langer, Zainab Abbas, and Tanay Tiwari.
Regional presenters: Vindhya Vishaka M, Nandu, Bhavna Balakrishnan, Madhu Mailankody and Roopesh Shetty.
Before the broadcasters’ official list was announced, Scott Styris was reported to be a part of the commentary panel, but has issued a clarification.
I loved working on the last Asia Cup in the UAE. But not sure how/why I'm included in the list for this years tournament.
I Wont be there this time around #AsiaCup— Scott Styris (@scottbstyris) August 12, 2023
