Harsha Bhogle 
			~~~~~~~~~~~~~

	The unlikely cult figure of the Indian cricket commentary scene.
Bookish and with a toothy grin remniscent of Ronaldo, he is the gentle
face of a game that is fast slipping into ignoble cacophony. 

For those who have heard of cricket as the `gentleman's game', but have 
not seen the modern game in action, it might be instructive to watch a 
game of cricket (the short version is just a day long), and to count the 
number of times the f* word is used in its myriad forms. One thought that 
it was just an Australian thing.

	People like Harsha remind one that are a few gentlemen left. Also, 
he shows you that a good cricket commentator need not be a good cricketer 
himself. He just needs a feel for the guts of the game. 


Biography of Harsha Bhogle [ISB Hyderabad]
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Harsha Bhogle is one of the leading and most popular commentators in world 
cricket. He has a huge fan following. He did his schooling from the Hyderabad 
Public School, and Chemical Engineering from the Nizam College, Hyderabad before 
joining IIM-A. His first commentary stint was a Ranji Trophy Match played 
between Hyderabad and Kerala, when he was just 19. He covered his first Test 
Match as a commentator for Doordarshan when doing his MBA. Advertising was his 
first love. He graduated from IIM-A in 1985 and then went to Australia in 
1991 -1992, where he did freelancing on the cricket tours until he was voted 
one of the best cricket commentators by the Australian media.

Harsha currently hosts various sports shows on ESPN , including the popular Harsha 
Online (Monday 10:30 pm), and has started a company called Prosearch with his wife, 
Anita (also his batch-mate at IIM-A). His company conducts workshops for senior 
managers on translating winning sports strategies to the field of business and 
has carried out the programme for Indian corporates like HLL, Pepsi, Glaxo 
Smithkline etc.

Books by Harsha Bhogle 
====================== 
1.Azhar: An Authorized Biography of Mohammed Azharuddin[1994]


Some Quotes
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``Soccer has dusted itself from the cobwebs it had surrounded itself within 
the minds of the Indian sports lover and I think that is brilliant news. 
India cannot be a one-sport country, hard as it tries sometimes to be, and 
a younger generation needs to watch soccer to know why it is the greatest 
team sport in the world. There was always a core group of sports lovers 
who watched soccer from Europe but the World Cup of 2002 has managed to reach 
out to a far wider cross-section than even I thought possible. Now at least a 
small percentage of these viewers must stay on''

- Riiight. I agree with him on most of it except one point: it is football, 
not soccer!