Deep Dasgupta

Dasgupta is currently a commentator in India and can be seen doing that very often during the Indian Premier League and was also the part of commentary team during the ICC World T20 2016 in India. He brings interesting commentary to the game.

Dasgupta started his career as an opening batsman - wicket keeper and showed the class in him in the first match itself, scoring a century on debut in Ranji Trophy against Baroda. His ability behind the stumps and on the crease placed him to become an reliable member in the Bengal Ranji Squad. Dasgupta was included in India's squad to South Africa in 2001. The news that he will make his international debut came to him around an hour before the toss as India's then wicketkeeper-batsman Sameer Dighe suffered a back spasm, and Ganguly told Dasgupta that he was going to make his Test debut at Bloemfontein. That was the same Test in which Virender Sehwag scored century on Test debut. Unfortunately, Deep did not even score a run in that match and was dismissed for a duck.

England were touring India for a Test series in 2001 and it was the inaugural Test. The visitors scored 238 in the first innings and Dasgupta failed to provide the start India needed during the chase, as he was out for a first ball duck and that too to hit-wicket. Dasgupta's debut series was an eventful one, in which the famous incident involving Mike Denness took place. Dasgupta was one of the six cricketers along with Sachin Tendulkar, Sehwag, Ganguly, Harbhajan Singh and Shiv Sunder Das to be banned by Denness for one Test. While Tendulkar was banned for ball-tampering, Ganguly was banned for the weird reason of his ‘inability to control the behaviour of his team’. The rest, including Dasgupta, were suspended for excessive appealing.

Deep Biplab Dasgupta ( pronunciation  (help ·info ) ; born 7 June 1977) is a former Indian cricketer who played in 8 Tests and 5 ODIs between 2001 and 2006 as the national wicketkeeper and is now a Hindi commentator. He was later replaced by Ajay Ratra.