Prime Video Announces Immersive & Localised Live Cricket Experience
Prime Video amps up the excitement around the India men’s tour of New Zealand beginning on 18th November, with a series of announcements.
The series will be live on Prime Video.
Prime Video will deliver live commentary and match programming in English, Hindi, Tamil, Kannada and Telugu. Former captains and cricketers like Ravi Shastri, Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Gundappa Viswanath, Anjum Chopra, Venkatpathy Raju, among others, will be bringing the matches alive with their commentary in different languages.
Talking about the upcoming series, Sushant Sreeram, director - SVOD business, Prime Video, India says, “There are many things that are heterogenous about the delightfully diverse India when it comes to entertainment – be it choice of language, genres of shows and movies, devices that customers prefer watching their favourite entertainment on, and so much more. But there is one absolute unifier that everyone across the country is unanimously passionate about, and that’s cricket! With our slate of compelling shows and movies over the last 6 years, we have strived to super-serve our customers, and they have emphatically picked Prime Video as their most loved entertainment destination. Now with live cricket, made immersive and accessible with multi-language feeds, fantastic studio programming and a superb set of commentators to take us through the series, we are confident we are not just going to deliver a superior experience for the legions of cricket fans in the country, but make Prime Video that much more exciting, delightful and the first choice of entertainment for everyone.”
The full slate of commentators for the series includes the following names:
English - Ravi Shastri, Harsha Bhogle, Anjum Chopra, Simon Doull and Murali Kartik, Gaurav Kapoor –(Presenter)
Hindi - Zaheer Khan, Ashish Nehra, Ajay Jadeja, Mohammad Kaif and Ajit Agarkar
Tamil - WV Raman, Hemang Badani and L Sivaramakrishnan, S Sriram
Kannada - Gundappa Viswanath, Veda Krishnamurthy, Shankar Prakash, Venkatesh Prasad, K Jeshwant
Telugu - Venkatpathy Raju, Sunitha Anand, Sudhir Malwvedi, Vijay Malwvedi
Prime Video will offer customers new features like an in-game language selector and “Rapid Recap”. The in-game language selector will allow customers to change the language. Using the “Rapid Recap” feature, one can catch-up on impactful game highlights.
