IPL: Ranking top 5 commentators of all-time

2. Sunil Gavaskar

Being the best in business while playing the game, listening to this legend on air is like perceiving a masterclass or like pursuing a quality cricket education. His love affair with batting not only just made him a legendary batsman of that time but also someone, who even while doing a commentary stint will passionately analyze and correct an individual’s batting technique. Playing for India in an era where the Windies team were the true invincible, along with being the first cricketer ever to score more than 10,000 runs in Test cricket, there’s actually a realm of cricketing folklore to seek whenever Mr. Gavaskar speaks about our beloved game.

Apart from being utterly insightful and knowledgable, often there’s a presence of humour and friendly banter while doing commentary stints with his colleagues. Also in the entire commentary fraternity, Sunil Gavaskar is actually one of those rare personalities who while doing his sturdy analysis will call a spade a spade regardless of his comments creating a wrangle.

All in all, it’s been now more than three decades that Sunil Gavaskar soon after his retirement in 1987 had started with his second association with the game. The cricketer as a commentator had made his debut in 1990 and was indeed lucky to share a commentary box with the legendary Richie Benaud during his inaugural series.