MUMBAI: Viacom18 announced Monday their expert panel for the 2024 WPL, starting February 23.
Anjum Chopra, Reema Malhotra, Sushma Verma, Mona Meshram, Nuzhat Parveen, Karuna Jain, Aakash Chopra, Parthiv Patel, Saba Karim, Srikkanth Anirudha, Sarandeep Singh, Nikhil Chopra, and Abhinav Mukund will come together for a five-language presentation on JioCinema for free.
The season-opener on February 23 will see Delhi Capitals taking on defending champions Mumbai Indians, which will be presented in English, Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, and Telugu on JioCinema. On TV, viewers can catch the action live in English, Tamil, Telugu and Kannada on Sports18 – 1 SD & HD. Sports18 – 2 SD and Sports18 Khel will broadcast the Hindi feed.
In the build-up to the 2024 season, the network has offered fans and viewers light-hearted content on WPL Huddle that features top players like Harmanpreet Kaur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Smriti Mandhana, Richa Ghosh, Deepti Sharma among others. WPL Heroes will take fans through background stories of players with insights from their families and coaches from all franchisees. Fans will also be treated with a peek into the training sessions of all the teams, along with expert reviews leading up to the start of the inaugural season.
Through their partnerships with Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, and Delhi Capitals, JioCinema users will have access to a wide variety of content, including interviews with the marquee players from the franchisees. Viacom18 will offer studio shows with expert analysis and player interviews to fans throughout the season. The anchor-led daily show will see Sanjana Ganesan, Ridhima Pathak, Supriya Singh, and Preeti Dahiya at the helm.
Full expert panel:
Hindi: Anjum Chopra, Reema Malhotra, Sushma Verma, Mona Meshram, Nuzhat Parveen,
Parthiv Patel, Aakash Chopra, Saba Karim, Sarandeep Singh, Sunil Taneja, Nikhil Chopra,
Prasanna S
Tamil: Bagawati Prasad, Sudhir Srinivasan, Aarti Sankaran, Niranjana Nagrajan, Shailaja
Sundar, Abhinav Mukund, KB Arun Karthick, Srikkanth Anirudha
Kannada: Raghvendra Raj, Sujay Shastri, Karuna Jain, Vanitha VR, Sahana Pawar, Bharat
Chippli, Srinivas Murthy
Telugu: Sravanti Naidu, Sunitha Anand, Akshath Reddy, Ashish Reddy, Sandeep Bavanaka
