How Navjot Sidhu scores in the commentary box

Long cricketing years up his sleeve, powerful oratory skills, his signature style one liners and his command over Hindi, Punjabi and English arm Sherry (as he is popularly called) with an unmatchable armoury while delivering punches and doing analysis in the commentary.

He has been chosen by Star Sports for Hindi commentary during the IPLT20 and on social media has both admirers and critics – former showering heaps of praises on him for returning to the field he belongs and latter even going on to say that they had switched over to English commentary channel to avoid the “repeated jokes and poetic verses”.

As MI’s bad run continues under Hardik Pandya’s captaincy with three losses in a row in the IPLT20, Sidhu has been all praise for former MI captain Rohit Sharma, but also underlines that it was franchisee’s decision to appoint Pandya as captain.

And as crowd booed Pandya Monday, Sidhu while discussing this with fellow commentators had a one liner to boost his morale, “Maine kaha baat sun oye, marey hue kutte ko koyee taang nahi maarta (loosely translated as people only pick faults with performers).” Sidhu’s return as commentator has been touted by Star Sports has “Sardar of commentary box is back”. During his cricketing career, he played 187 One Day International (ODI) matches, scoring 7,615 runs.

During RR versus MI match on Monday, Sidhu boasted of having a “memory of an elephant” as he recollected various incidents.

Sidhu is never short of funny incidents both on and off cricketing field during his career as cricketer, recalling how he and Mohammad Azharuddin saw a movie sitting on front row of the cinema hall, and how Mohinder Amarnath after getting bowled out in a match started to put back bails on stumps while saying jovially that he will bat again as crowd had come to watch him.