Who is Charu Sharma ?
After the 2022 IPL auction Charu Sharma has been applauded and loved by everyone around different social media platforms. Charu Sharma is an Indian sports broadcaster, quizmaster and the director of a famous Pro Kabaddi League. Charu was the CEO of IPL franchise Royal Challengers Bangalore in IPL 2008, but forced to leave the post shortly after the end of the season due to the bad performance of the team.
IPL Mega Auction was not the first place where did the auction. He has conducted many auctions for other sports leagues including one in Kathmandu (Nepal, where he conducted the auction for one of the domestic Cricket League. Recently Charu said that:
“It wasn’t just the unfortunate fall of the auctioneer Hugh Edmeades that got me into the IPL auction but also another injury – to my right shoulder – that brought about this strange happening,” Charu told The Indian Express.
“I had fallen in Kathmandu where I had gone for an auction for a cricket league and damaged my shoulder. There was some rain and I fell at the place where I was staying. I have been at home now for weeks, getting my physiotherapy done; if it were not for that fall, I would have been in a golf course playing – it’s my passion these days and I spend hours at a golf course – and would have had no access to my phone. And Brijesh Patel couldn’t have reached me,” he added.
Charu is not only a sports broadcaster or a quizmaster, but in fact he even qualified for the 1978 Commomwealth Games.
Charu Sharma once revealed why he had to quit the sports of diving and get into Cricket and Broadcasting:
“… I was the junior champion for seven years from the age of 11. I can safely say that later I was among the top three springboard divers in the country; the first two were from the army and were backed. I had qualified for the Commonwealth Games 1978 but had to give up as I had to go at my own expense. I had done well in the diving sport and quit at the ripe age of 19! There wasn’t much left to do there. I was also a first-division cricketer in Kolkata. The broadcasting career started and it took off once the country liberalised and more networks began to come in the 90’s,” he said.
