Jatin Sapru is an Indian television sports journalist, television anchor, broadcaster and cricket commentator employed by the Star Sports network. He is the leading face of cricket related programs on various TV channels of Star Sports network.
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Wiki/Biography
Jatin Sapru was born on Tuesday, April 8, 1986 (age 37 years; as of 2023) in Kashmir, India. His zodiac sign is Aries. Jatin Sapru’s family, who were leading a comfortable life in Kashmir, fled Kashmir in the early 90s due to the spread of terrorism in the valley and settled in Delhi.
Jatin Sapru (left) with his younger brother in Srinagar in 1994
Jatin grew up in Delhi and graduated from Ryan International School in 2003. He wanted to do something in literature and theater; However, he was encouraged to pursue engineering by his father, who wanted Jatin to start a government job and lead a secure life. After appearing for the first year exams, Jatin took his own stand and eventually dropped out of the B.Tech course. He then pursued a degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from Jagannath International Management School (JIMS), Vasant Kunj, and began his career in journalism.
Physical appearance
Height (approx): 5′7″
Hair color: black
Eye Color: Black
Jatin Sapru poses on a race track in the Czech Republic
family and caste
Jatin Sapru belongs to a Kashmiri Pandit family.
parents and siblings
Jatin Sapru’s grandfather worked as the Vice-Principal of Kashmir University. His father is an engineer and his mother, Suman Sapru, is a homemaker.
Parents of Jatin Sapru
Jatin Sapru with his mother
He has a younger brother named Aditya Sapru.
Jatin Sapru with his younger brother Aditya Sapru
wife and daughter
Jatin Sapru married Lara Sinha, a former journalist, on 12 December 2015. It was a love marriage.
Jatin Sapru with his wife on their wedding day
The couple has a daughter named Inaaya (born 2018).
Jatin Sapru with his wife and daughter
Career
birth phase
During his senior year of college, Sapru interned at a renowned institution in Washington, D.C. called The President Classroom for three months (February 2006 – April 2006). During her internship, she began working as a media and communication assistant, editing media releases and magazines for over a thousand participating students from around the world and organizing workshops for participants at respected institutions such as the IMF. He also worked closely with various senators and department heads during his internship in the presidential classroom. The initial stage of Jatin Sapru’s career was full of difficulties. Before landing a steady job with a journalism degree, Sapru did odd jobs to manage day-to-day expenses. He distributed pamphlets in public, ran teleprompters for news channels and clicked pictures at fashion shows. During a job interview on news channels, he was humiliated and rejected several times. In one of the interviews, Jatin recounted one such incident, when he could not even enter the building of the news channel, and the guard standing outside the office tore up his resume and threw it in the garbage. It was embarrassing for young Jatin to face such situations and it came to a point where he decided to give up his career and look for other career options; However, he persevered. In October 2006, he was hired by a digital content management company, Tangerine Digital, while he was still finishing college. While working at Tangerine Digital as a content writer and digital commentator, he wrote scripts for sports content and did digital commentary for Mobile ESPN.
breakthrough
Jatini was getting a monthly salary. 6500 while working at Tangerine Digital and his future looked bleak. He did not want to become a television anchor, but it was a lucky coincidence that one of his colleagues encouraged him to audition for the second season of ESPN Dream Job (2007), a national talent hunt for sports anchors. Not only did he pass the audition, but he eventually won the competition.
(L-R) Jatin Sapru, Lara Sinha (Sapru’s wife) and Siddharth Mishra (sports anchor) pose during the ESPN Dream Job Show in 2007.
In association with ESPN
Jatin signed a contract with ESPN sports in 2008 and has been associated with the company ever since. He started working at ESPN as a TV anchor and, over time, he developed into an excellent sports commentator. With over a decade in the industry, Jatin Sapru has hosted matches in major international cricket tournaments alongside legends of the game. He is one of the most famous cricket anchors who has not played cricket professionally.
Confrontation
Although sapru is the kind of person who likes to stay away from controversy, he once landed himself in hot water as a result of which Rawalpindi Express lost his cool. Akhtar replied to Jatin Sapru and said:
First tell me, why are you laughing now? Are you sitting here to ask my opinion or to make fun of me? You can’t call me in the studio and make fun of me”
The incident angered cricket fans across the border in India and Pakistan, who described Sapru’s behavior as completely unprofessional.
After the controversy escalated, Jatin posted his part explaining the incident, saying that his laughter was taken completely out of context by the viewers and that he actually did not intend to insult Shoaib Akhtar, whom he considers his elder brother.
favorite things
Stadium (in terms of beauty): Newlands Cricket Ground (South Africa)
Stadium (in terms of match coverage): Lord’s Cricket Ground and M. Chinaswamy Stadium (Bangalore)
Cricket Match: 2011 Cricket World Cup Final
Destination: London
Co-host: Mayanti Langer
Cricketer: Rahul Dravid
Food style: Italian
Facts/Trivia
- Jatin Sapru is a big fan of superheroes and has posters of various superheroes on the walls of his house. When asked which superpower he would choose if given the chance to own it, Sapru replied: “To become invisible.”
- Although Sapru never thought of taking up cricket as a profession, he played cricket for his school team in Delhi.
Jatin Sapru with his school cricket coach
- Wanting to experience the hardships of working as journalists, Jatin Sapru, during his college days, attended various media events with his fake press card. Attending these press events, he realized that the work of a journalist is actually difficult.
- Jatin’s mother affectionately calls him Minx, and his friends call him J.
- In an interview with The Hindu, Jatin Sapru spoke about the best compliment he has received for his work in his entire career. She said,
Once, during an IPL match, a small kid in Bangalore came up to me and said are you Jatin Sapru? So I was like, and he came running back to his mom and said see I told you so. Then he came to me again and asked can I take a picture with you? I want to be like you. I think this kid just made my life.
- During an interview with The Hindu, Jatin Sapru gave advice to youngsters who want to become TV anchors. She said,
Don’t strive to be the first. I always wanted to be with sports, that’s why I didn’t complain even when I got a small amount of money. Before you can be a presenter, you need to learn all the roles required in a production. You need to master both the language you are broadcasting in and the content. But don’t do it for fame, do it just because you’re passionate about your field.”
- Jatin Sapru was in class 5 when he first watched a game of cricket. It was the India-Zimbabwe match that his father made him watch. When asked about his fondest childhood cricket memories, Jatin said:
This is India who beat Australia in the 2001 Test series. It was my class X board exams and on this day Harbhajan scored a hat trick. I finished the exam and forced my father to break all the traffic rules because I wanted to get home in time to watch the match.”
- Jatin says he loves his job so much that he doesn’t get tired even if he works 15 hours a day because he would spend the day with cricket legends.
Jatin Sapru with Sachin Tendulkar and Harbhajan Singh at Lord’s Cricket Ground
Categories: Cricket
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