Background
He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad. Harsha Bhogle is the son of A. D. Bhogle, a professor of French, and Shalini Bhogle, a professor of psychology.
He was born in a Marathi speaking family in Hyderabad. Harsha Bhogle is the son of A. D. Bhogle, a professor of French, and Shalini Bhogle, a professor of psychology.
He attended Hyderabad Public School, and subsequently studied chemical engineering at Osmania University at Hyderabad. Post-graduation, he joined an advertising agency and worked there for two years, following which he completed another two-year stint at a sports management company.
Bhogle has recently become a freelance television presenter. He did his post graduate program PGDM at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Bhogle began his career as a commentator at the age of 19 with All India Radio, while living in Hyderabad.
He has since worked for American Broadcasting Company Radio Grandstand during India"s Australian tours, and for eight years worked for the British Broadcasting Corporation as part of their commentary team in the 1996 and the 1999 Cricket World Cups.
Since 1995, he has been presenting live cricket from all around the world for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network STAR Sports and was part of the "Few Good Men" commentary team that included Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, and Alan Wilkins along with Geoff Boycott and Navjot Singh Sidhu, for few seasons, and later, Ian Chappell and Sanjay Manjrekar. He covered the 2011–"12 series in Australia solely for American Broadcasting Company Radio.
Harsha has been covering all Indian Premier League seasons since 2009. He has hosted television programs such as Harsha Online, Harsha Unplugged and School Quiz Olympiad for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network and Star Sports.
Harsha had a Television programme named after him, "Harsha ki khoj"/"Hunt of Harsha", that strived to find broadcasting talent in India.
Harsha expanded his online presence by hosting *Out of the Box with Harsha Bhogle on YouTube
Bhogle was voted the favourite television cricket commentator by Cricinfo users based on a worldwide poll. Bhogle has also anchored British Broadcasting Corporation"s travel serial Travel India and Business Today Acumen Business Quiz and Debate competitions. Bhogle was the advisor to the Mumbai Indians for the 2008 IPL. Bhogle has published and authored a number of books, including a biography of Mohammad Azharuddin and a collection of columns in The Indian Express, Out of the Box – Watching the Game We Love and is also a columnist for the Chennai based "The Sportstar" a subsidiary of The Hindu group of Publications under the title "Hitting Hard" by Bhogle.
(2009).
Bhogle has presented the program TRAVEL INDIA WITH HARSHA BHOGLE on the Discovery channel and TLC. In the 2011 World Cup held in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, he anchored the pre and post match shows that featured Simon Hughes, Navjot Singh Sidhu, Sunil Gavaskar, Tony Greig and Sourav Ganguly. Bhogle"s presence in electronic media can be seen through his Twitter account bhogleharsha and his weekly article previously on ESPNcricinfo and now on starsports.com
Harsha currently hosts a weekly show called "This Week"s Special" aired on Star Sports. The show takes the viewers back in time to make them relive the cricketing memories from the past
The first episode aired from 1st October 2015.