- As impressive as that achievement is, everyone’s attention was drawn to another clash at Eden Gardens on Day 3 of the second Test. Match commentators Sanjay Manjrekar and Harsha Bhogle seemed to have a small spat while they were on air, which led to significant Twitter backlash for Manjrekar, who isn’t the most popular commentator out there.
- Twitter went berserk as soon as Mohammad Azharuddeen completed the mammoth heist at the Wankhede Stadium where his namesake and former India captain Mohammad Azharuddin has won many games for India. From Virender Sehwag to Harsha Bhogle, everyone spoke highly of the young talent.
- Snatching a win from the jaws of defeat, Mumbai showed why they are 5-time champions! Harsha Bhogle and Joy Bhattacharjya salute the Rohit Sharma-led side's tenacity and ability to fight back from any situation.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 24, 2020 Also see – IPL 2020 Team Harsha Bhogle's top pick, Nawab of Pataudi is considered as one of the best captains ever to have lead India. Indian cricket commentator, Harsha Bhogle, is known to be a frequent user of his Twitter account to convey his opinions. Recently, he took to his Twitter account to slam a user who criticised Team India skipper Virat Kohli’s inability to win a toss. Kohli’s luck has not favoured him during the toss, as has been prevalent with his win percentage during India’s as well as his IPL-side.
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Harsha Bhogle is widely acknowledged to be not just the voice, but the face of Indian cricket. He started at a time when few Indian broadcasters were considered good enough to be on overseas networks. But he changed those perceptions, especially in Australia where in 1992 he was rated as the possessor of the “sexiest voice on radio” and in 1999 when a poll on an independent web site rated him the number one commentator for the season.
He brings a fresh perspective to cricket and is seen as a voice of reason which makes him acceptable across all cultures. His interesting background, a chemical engineer and an alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad, India’s premier business school, has made him a role model for many.
The Hindustan Times said “Warne and Bhogle are one. They made a complicated and tricky art appear easy, prompting many imitations, but no true successors.” The Deccan Herald said “In many ways, Bhogle is a pioneer, the man who put Indian radio and television commentating on the world map.
Bhogle is perhaps in a class of one” Adam Gilchrist called him “India’s Richie Benaud equivalent and the guru of cricket from India”. Sachin Tendulkar said “I have realized that speaking to him sometimes opens up completely different perspectives in addition to the ones I already have…” And Cricinfo said he has “the boy-next-door image. Once he found his feet in television, he became the first superstar of the game in India who was not actually a player”
Not surprisingly in a global poll, readers of Cricinfo voted him as their “most favourite commentator” and he was the only one to feature among the top three in each of the categories – ‘favourite commentator”, “most unbiased”, “most insightful” and “most entertaining”. The Hindustan Times while ranking him no 1 called him “the average Joe who has become the icon of cricket commentary”.
He has been the face of ESPN from the day the channel was launched and that role grew to include Star Sports and Star Cricket which also broadcast signature programmes like “Harsha Unplugged” and “Harsha On-line”. When ESPN were looking for new anchors they called their reality show “Harsha ki khoj” to attract the best talent.
He has now commentated on over four hundred one-day internationals, over a hundred test matches and has been closely associated with T20 cricket, right from the first game that India played, through six IPL tournaments, five Champions Leagues and five T20 World Cups.
His columns are widely read and a selection of those has been put together in a book called “Out of the Box”. His video blogs “Step Out with Harsha” were quite popular and he now has over a million followers on twitter. No other sports media person is half as close.
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He has, at various times, been in brand commercials for Pepsi, Hero Honda, Airtel, Tata-AIG, Sugar Free, Procter & Gamble (for Vicks), has done brand promotions for Vodafone, Cadbury, IBM among many others and is now a brand ambassador for Castrol and Boehringer Ingelheim (Stroke Awareness)