Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogle
Harsha Bhogleis an Indian cricket commentator and journalist. He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad. Bhogle has recently become a freelance TV presenter...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth19 July 1961
CountryIndia
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I always wanted to play cricket, and I have played competitive cricket to a fairly good level. I remember that my father used to come and watch me play. He used to love watching me play.
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I am a kid who played university cricket, so to be around international cricket is a blessing.
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Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.
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For a long time, television said, 'We won't cover cricket unless you pay us to cover it.' Then they said, 'OK, the next rights are sold for 55 million dollars. The next rights are sold for 612 million dollars.' So, it's a bit of a curve, that.
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To be a commentator, you must have a life outside cricket, too. If cricket is all that you know, then you would not be a great commentator.
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Cricketers are made to feel that they are very special. That is okay as long as cricketers realise they are only as good as their last innings.
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For its health, cricket needs to look outward to the sharpest minds, to people who sustain and nurture brands and often take hard but necessary decisions. Cricket cannot be bound by cricketing minds alone.
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Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.
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Change doesn't always mean progress, but the status quo isn't always the best result either. It is merely the most convenient.
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One of the reasons you study at great institutions or aspire to work in great corporations is that you hope to acquire the values they stand for.
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Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals.
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Like an author, a cricketer signs his name on every innings he bats or bowls in; indeed for every cricket ball that challenges him on the field.
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Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
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Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.