Jio Cinema announced its commentary panel for the upcoming 2023 Indian Premier League on Wednesday, March 29. The league will kick off on March 31 with the defending champions Gujarat Giants taking on the Chennai Super Kings at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Jio Cinema won the digital rights of the Indian Premier League 2023-27 for ₹20,500 crore.
The tournament will be streamed in high 4K resolution, with commentary available in 12 languages. The languages are English, Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Bhojpuri, Punjabi, Oriya, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Former cricketers Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, and Brett Zee are part of the English commentary group. Meanwhile, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, and Anil Kumble will be in the Hindi commentary box.
Full Commentators list for the 2023 Indian Premier League:
| Language | Commentators |
| English | Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Eoin Morgan, Brett Lee, Graeme Swann, Graeme Smith, Scott Styris, Sanjana Ganesan, Supriya Singh, Suhail Chandok |
| Hindi | Owais Shah, Zaheer Khan, Suresh Raina, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa, Parthiv Patel, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, Aakash Chopra, Nikhil Chopra, Saba Karim, Anant Tyagi, Ridhima Pathak, Surbhi Vaid, Glen Saldhana |
| Marathi | Kedar Jadhav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Kiran More, Siddesh Lad, Prasanna Sant, Chaitanya Sant, Kunal Date, Vikat Patil, Poorvi Bhave |
| Gujarati | Manpreet Juneja, Vrijesh Hirjee, Rakesh Patel, Bhargav Bhatt, Nishat Mehta, Shreyum Mehta, Karan Mehta, Aseem |
| Bhojpuri | Mohd Saif, Shivam Singh, Satya Prakash, Gulam Hussain, Saurabh Verma, Kunal Aditya Singh, Vishal Aditya Singh, Sneh Upadhyay, Dimpal Singh |
| Bengali | Jhulan Goswami, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Saurashish Lahiri, Subhomoy Das, Shreevats Goswami, Sanjeeb Mukherjee, Saradindu Mukherjee, Anindya Sengupta, Shaheb |
| Oriya | Debashish Mohanty, Basanta Mohanty, Rashmi Ranjan Parida, Biplab Samantray, Gourab Panda, Loriya Mohanty, Shovna Mishra |
| Malayalam | Sachin Baby, Rohan Prem, Sony Cheruvathur, VA Jagadeesh, Mohd Rafiq, Aju John Thomas, Renu Joseph, Sithara, Binoy |
| Kannada | Venkatesh Prasad, S Aravind, Amit Verma, Veda Krishnamurthy, H Sharath, Sujay Shastry, Deepak Chougle, Raghavendra Raj, Sumanth Bhat, Reena D’souza, Hitha Chandrasekar, Ankita Amar |
| Tamil | Abhinav Mukund, R Sridhar, Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan, Baba Aprajith, Baba Indrajith, Anirudha Srikanth, KB Arun Karthik, Sudhir Srinivasan, Bagawati Prasad, Sanjay Paul, Sreenivasan Radhakrishnan, Sameena Anwar, Gayathri Suresh |
| Telugu | Hanuma Vihari, Venkatapathy Raju, Akshath Reddy, DB Ravi Teja, Sandeep Bavanaka, Kalyan Kollarapu, RJ Hemanth, Jyothi Ramana, Pratyusha, Gnaneswari |
| Punjabi | Sarandeep Singh, Rahul Sharma, VRV Singh, Reetinder Singh Sodhi, Sunil Taneja, Atul Wassan, Gurjeet Singh, Palak Sharma |
Tamannah Bhatia to perform at the Indian Premier League 2023 opening ceremony
The Indian Premier League will have an opening ceremony for the first time since 2018. The official Twitter handle of the league confirmed on social media that Tamannaah Bhatia would participate in the Opening Ceremony. The event will take place before the start of the opening clash between Gujarat Titans and the Chennai Super Kings at Ahmedabad. It will begin at 6 pm IST and will be telecasted on Star Sports Network TV, and live-streamed on Jio Cinema.
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