A commentator is a person who gives commentary on an event on any media platform. Each event and media have a commentator who let’s know the people about any particular event. Their main task is to let the audience know about the current status, in sports broadcasting, a sports commentator gives a live commentary of the game in real time, they are also known as sports announcer, sportscaster or play by play announcer. The main task of the cricket commentators is giving live scores, they discuss on what is going on the field and gives their opinion. Commentary in sport often dictates the state of the mind of the person watching the event. Opinion of the audience totally depends on the commentators, whatever the say meanwhile the game that impacts the audience and shapes the mindset of the people. Commentary has a significance role in sports, it helps to gather audience in a large number. Commentary, for years, has made sport come alive on radio and television alike. We can consider the commentators as a soul and the sport as a body. These two are inseparable, if one from these will not be there than essence of the game will be lost.
If we talk about the payments of the commentators, it totally depends on his performance and popularity. If one is very much famous than definitely his payment would be in a good range. The actual salaries of cricket commentators vary as per their qualification, experience and cricket governing bodies. let’s talk about the cricket commentators and their salaries –
1) Ravi Shastri
The BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket in India) pays him 4 crores annually because he is on the list of top cricket commentators. Apart from this, he gets extra 2.75 crores for other roles. So, he gets 6 crores annually.
2) Sunil Gavaskar
Sunil Gavaskar is same as Ravi Shastri, they both earn on the same scale. So, he also gets 6 crores annually and he is the head of the IPL (Indian premier league) operations. He also gets 6 crores annually.
3) Anil Kumble
He was a former Indian bowler earns in lakh on daily basis. His per day earning is around 2 to 2.5 lakhs during the ILP (Indian premier league) season. So for 60 days, he will get 60 lakhs to 90 lakhs.
4) Sourav Ganguly
He is one of the most famous cricket commentators in India, his commentary is remarkable. His per day match fees is around $2,500, per series fees $50,000. So as a whole his per year income is around $1 million.
So we have seen that they the most famous commentators, their per year salary is different on the basis of their knowledge, experience and performance.