World T20: Full Text: Harsha Bhogle defends himself after Amitabh, Dhoni criticise Indian commentators

On Wednesday, Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter to express his displeasure over the nature of commentary by Indian commentators during India's 1-run win over Bangladesh at the ICC World Twenty20. He said that the commentators should focus more on speaking about Indian players than those from other countries.

T 2184 - With all due respects, it would be really worthy of an Indian commentator to speak more about our players than others all the time.

— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) March 23, 2016

 After Amitabh Bachchan had tweeted, MS Dhoni had backed the Bollywood megastar as well.

Nothing to add https://t.co/8rBel3vw4o

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni (@msdhoni) March 23, 2016

While Amitabh's comments led to a storm on social media, commentator and journalist Harsha Bhogle put up a long Facebook post defending his commentary and was at pains to explain the concept of unbiased commentary on global television.

Prior to posting his detailed views on Facebook, Harsha Bhogle had addressed the issue on Twitter:

Thanks to some of you for your comments on what seems a misconception of the role of a commentator. For the rest, will post shortly

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 24, 2016

Thanks to some of you for your comments on what seems a misconception of the role of a commentator. For the rest, will post shortly

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) March 24, 2016

 All in all, this 'controversy' looks like nothing more than a storm in a tea cup. While it is true that some commentators show bias in the box, the job of a commentator, as Bhogle pointed out, is to be unbiased in front of a global audience.

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