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S5E1: A Brief History of Cricket Commentary

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The IPL is in full swing and Cricket commentary has gone vernacular with Avengers. Live TV or live streaming did not until recently offer the option to choose from commentary in so many Indian languages. Never before were cricket fans in India and the world indeed was served with so many vernacular commentary options at the same time. Today is the 98th birthday of live cricket commentary in England. If we take Australia where live cricket commentary debuted in 1922 the phenomenon is already 102 years old.

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