Mumbai: Suresh Raina, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, and Aakash Chopra have been selected to lead the expert panel for the inaugural season of SA20, South Africa’s premier T20 league, starting 10 January as announced by Viacom18.

The league will be telecast live on JioCinema, Sports18 – 1 SD & HD, Sports18 Khel, and Colors Tamil in four languages – English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu from 8:30 p.m. onward.

The Hindi feed on JioCinema and Sports18 Khel will feature Aakash Chopra, RP Singh, Pragyan Ojha, and Owais Shah.

Tamil viewers will be able to enjoy the voices of Abhinav Mukund alongside Anirudha Srikkanth on JioCinema and Colors Tamil. Telugu coverage will be headlined by Venkatapathy Raju, who will be joined by Akshath Reddy, Sandeep Bavanaka, and R J Hemanth on JioCinema.

The SA20 English commentary team has reunited the Proteas with AB De Villiers, who is making his debut as a commentator and is joined by his former national team teammates Mark Boucher, Ashwell Prince, Shaun Pollock, Herschelle Gibbs, B Chris Morris, and Vernon Philander.

The experienced Mark Nicholas will join former England internationals Kevin Pietersen and Darren Gough. In addition, the international line-up will include South Africa’s first lady of cricket, Kass Naidoo, Urooj Mumtaz, Pommie Mbangwa, Mike Haysman, and former West Indies T20 World Cup-winning captain Darren Sammy.