Full list of commentators across languages for ENG vs IND 2025 Tests ft. Dinesh Karthik & Hanuma Vihari 

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The full list of commentators for the upcoming series between England and India was announced by Star Sports on Thursday, June 19. The Star network will telecast the series for TV viewers, while JioHotstar will live stream the five Tests.

Notably, former India wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik, along with batter Hanuma Vihari, are among the host of names that will hold the mic for the series. England and India will square off in a five-match Test rubber to kick off their 2025-27 ICC World Test Championship cycle. The series was recently renamed from the Pataudi Trophy to the Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy.

The English panel of commentators features renowned names such as Ravi Shastri, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Anil Kumble, and Dinesh Karthik. Partnering them will be former England bowling stalwart Stuart Broad, and former skippers Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton.

The Hindi panel of commentators features former India wicketkeepers Parthiv Patel and Deep Dasgupta, Varun Aaron, Sanjay Manjrekar, and Sanjay Bangar. Sidhu and Anil Kumble will also be a part of this panel.


Full list of commentators and presenters for ENG vs IND 2025

English: Ravi Shastri, Dinesh Karthik, Stuart Broad, Michael Atherton, Nasser Hussain, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sanjay Manjrekar, Anil Kumble, Abhinav Mukund

Hindi: Anil Kumble, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Parthiv Patel, Sanjay Bangar, Varun Aaron, Deep Dasgupta, Anant Tyagi, and Padamjeet Sehrawat

Tamil: Abhinav Mukund, S Badrinath, Ramesh, Anirudha Srikkanth, Yo Mahesh, R Sridhar

Kannada: Vijay Bharadwaj, Sunil Joshi, Vinay Kumar, Srinivas Murthy, Pavan Deshpande, Akhil Balachandra, Bharat Chipli, Kiran Srinivas.

Telugu: MSK Prasad, Hanuma Vihari, T Suman, Ashish Reddy, Akshath Reddy, Kalyan Krishna, NC Kaushik.

The first Test between the two sides starts on Friday, June 20, at Headingley, Leeds. This series will also mark the beginning of Shubman Gill's stint as India's Test captain.

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