MUMBAI: The Paytm South Africa tour of India begins this Sunday September 15, with the first T20 played between the two countries.
Star Sports Network, the official broadcaster for the series gears up with a dedicated line-up of daily special programmes as a prelude to what seems like a very exciting season of home cricket. This year is going to be the year of T20 – beginning with South Africa playing India.
Star Sports Select Dugout is back: Riding on the success of the previous editions of the Select Dugout, Star Sports brings back #SelectDugout for the ongoing PayTM South Africa vs India T20 series. Select Dugout is a bespoke experience that brings fans closer to the game with deeper engagement, detailed analytical and predictive commentary peppered with demos by experts. Fans can continue enjoying the fun banter with Dugout Veterans – Dean Jones and Scott Styris as they are joined by Mike Hesson, VVS Laxman and Brian Lara on the expert panel for the series.
Regional Experience: Star Sports will broadcast the India v South Africa series in seven different languages – English, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bangla targeting an unparalleled reach to engage core cricket fans across TV and digital platforms.
Commentators: Besides match commentary, the India v South Africa series will include special programming to discuss the team’s game plans, pre-match and post-match analysis throughout the tournament. Joining the experts will be faces of Star Sports network which includes Jatin Sapru, Mayanti Langer, Sanjana Ganesan, among others.
List of commentators across languages:
Hindi: Aakash Chopra, Nikhil Chopra, VVS Laxman, Irfan Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Gautam Gambhir
Telugu: Venkatapathi Raju, Venugopal Rao, Kalyana Krishna, C Venkatesh, Kaushik Nallan Chakravarthy, Ashish Reddy
Kannada: Vijay Bharadwaj, Sujith Somasundar, Akhil Balachandra, Srinivas Murthy, GK Anil Kumar
Tamil: Hemang Badani, Krishnamachari Srikkanth, Arun Venugopal, P Muthu Pandian, Laxmipathy Balaji, Subramaniam Badrinath, Russel Arnold
Bengali: Boria Majumdar, Snehashish Ganguly, Shathira Jesy, Gautam Bhattacharya, Sanjeeb M, Debashish Dutta, Saurasish Lahirir, Joydeep Mukherjee
World Feed Commentators – Sanjay Manjrekar, Sunil Gavaskar, Murali Karthik, L Siva, Harsha Bhogle, Graeme Smith & Shaun Pollock
Non–live programming: Proprietary shows such as Nerolac Cricket Live (90 mins), Game Plan, Match Point and Cricket Countdown that will continue throughout the tournament.
Exclusive content will focus on the ‘Men in Blue’ and how they will start their campaign to win ICC Cricket World Cup 2020. The show will feature exclusive interviews, net sessions, media interactions, behind the scenes action and a lot of fan fervour.
With the ICC World Test Championship as well as the South Africa, West Indies, Zimbabwe, New Zealand and Australia tour of India starting, September 15th on the Star Sports Network and Hotstar, Star Sports has a cricket extravaganza lined up for its viewers.
