ddk partners with Anders at PGL Astana

21-4-2025 15:06

The experienced British caster will make his first CS broadcast appearance since PGL Stockholm Major 2021.

ddk makes his first CS broadcast appearance in over three years

PGL has revealed the broadcast talent for PGL Astana, which sees the notable return of Daniel "⁠ddk⁠" Kapadia to CS casting.

The last broadcast ddk was a part of was for PGL Major Stockholm 2021, after which he spent time casting and serving as GM for 100 Thieves in VALORANT. His return to CS broadcasting will come three-and-a-half years after his last appearance.

The Brit will partner up with Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume, who himself has found regular tier-one work in CS hard to come by as of late. His last outing at PGL Bucharest was a strange one, as partner Wilton "⁠zews⁠" Prado was removed from the broadcast after a single day following criticism of his casting.

The full talent lineup is as follows:

Hosts

James "⁠BanKs⁠" Banks (Stage)
Richard "⁠Richard Lewis⁠" Lewis (Desk)
Sam "⁠Tech Girl⁠" Wright (Desk)

Analysts

Dustin "⁠dusT⁠" Mouret
Alex "⁠Mauisnake⁠" Ellenberg
Sudhen "⁠Bleh⁠" Wahengbam
Janko "⁠YNk⁠" Paunović

Casters

Harry "⁠JustHarry⁠" Russell

Anders "⁠Anders⁠" Blume

Alex "⁠Machine⁠" Richardson

Jason "⁠moses⁠" O'Toole

Hugo "⁠Hugo⁠" Byron

Daniel "⁠ddk⁠" Kapadia

Chad "⁠SPUNJ⁠" Burchill

Adam "⁠Dinko⁠" Hawthorne

diddyk

2025-04-21 15:06

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DDK back before GTA6

2025-04-21 15:29

another banger $1.25m tournament - wow - good shit pgl!

2025-04-21 21:11

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OMG ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? HOW DOES HE EVEN DO THAT?? IS HE EVEN HUMAN?? after a trade frag to win the round.

2025-04-22 01:12

finally about time

2025-04-21 15:07

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LETSGOOOOOOOO

2025-04-21 15:10

goat caster, waiting for a ddk & black ddk Major final again

2025-04-21 18:47

Lessgo HOTU

Who invited my man blud

2025-04-21 15:57

yoooooo so cool

Better than zews thats for sure

2025-04-21 15:08

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no idea why anders went with zews when ddk and I guess bardolph are out there

5 replies

Anders doesn't make the choices. Normal caster duo are hired together, he said on his stream. But since Anders doesn't have a fix partner he can't choose who is he casting with

4 replies

We need sadokist and anders duo.

2025-04-21 16:09

where semmler

2025-04-21 18:04

better that he doesn't cast anymore. He is a great example that not all people age well.

2025-04-21 19:38

what did he do I was hiding in the cave for past 10y

2025-04-21 20:16

I do not feel like there's a challenge in being better than zews at this. > have a mouth > don't be high as a kite > no, everything is not everything and everything is not nothing If you fulfil those 3 then congrats, you are a better caster than zews!

W HYPE

2025-04-21 15:09

no zews damn

Where Black DDK Tho? I Miss Him

You should research why he is no longer around... If you know you know.

2025-04-21 16:17

Just tell him you smug. Plus he was being funny

2025-04-21 16:23

he was a potato, don't be harsh

2025-04-21 16:44

So.. he used to be irish?

2025-04-21 17:05

Need to check in my family but I assume not last time I checked.

2025-04-21 19:08

WHERE IS THE DDK BARDOLPH COMBO PGL WATAFAK MENS

Nice

2025-04-21 15:11

this is cool

Dadoka Power!

2025-04-21 15:12

two of the best casters united. LFG!!!!!!

2025-04-21 15:15

Even though no og duo let's go

2025-04-21 15:16

Welcome back beast

2025-04-21 15:19

"The jumping double from Cold!!!" the shivers returns...

2025-04-21 15:20

Legend cast from him🐐🐐

2025-04-22 03:20

bring zews back

YOOOO NO WAY HES BACK MISSED U DDK

2025-04-21 15:21

PGL Astana the peoples major

2025-04-21 15:22

YES

2025-04-21 15:25

Finally white Bardolph back in action, a bit of a shame black ddk isn't there though

Cinema major

where is bardolph?

he never coming back bro. just look at his latest YT video

2025-04-21 16:02

can you just explain pls?

2025-04-21 16:22

youtube.com/watch?v=oyib5CabfKE

2025-04-21 16:26

Bardolph is Vice President of FACEIT Media . I don't think he want to cast anymore because faceit just paid him salaries for his involvement in their platform. Many people didn't knew this.

2025-04-22 03:18

Weird seeing him without Bardolph.

2025-04-21 15:30

Very good news and I hope ddk and Anders will get to cast more tier 1 tournaments in the future, not only PGL, I love both of them and both of them for sure deserves it. Also much love to Anders for not giving up when he saw that tier 1 tournaments don't really "need" him anymore he started grinding tier 2, I really hope he gets only tier 1 tournaments in the future, I think he deserves to be a caster for tier 1 tournaments.

2025-04-21 15:32

yoooo after zews anders has diddy now damnnnnn can he even go any lower atp? love him tho

HUGE W

2025-04-21 15:39

About time sir, welcome back.

2025-04-21 15:40

GOAT deadlock caster making a comeback to counterstrike

2025-04-21 15:42

Can turn our very nice

Noice!

Ddk Anders black ddk most goated casters

2025-04-21 15:43

I need james bardolph back

2025-04-21 15:44

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

2025-04-21 15:47

goat ddk is back

2025-04-21 15:48

Ive been doing threads and been talking to DDK and so many others that he and bardolph should come back. Now just time for Bardolph to return as well then Im happy

2025-04-21 15:49

Now this is a good duo, I really hope it works for them and us too tbh. I've so much memories from CS when Anders is the voice, now with ddk that was part of my fav duo ever with Bardolph. Time to shine boys!

2025-04-21 15:52

NICE!!

2025-04-21 15:53

Hell yeah, It's nice to see you back Dan! I've been always a fan of him and Bardolph.

2025-04-21 16:00

what happened to henryg? I thought him and anders were a group.

ABOUT THAT TIME !

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

2025-04-21 16:03

wooo welcome back ddk miss both his and james' castings

very good news

2025-04-21 16:04

The world is healing :D

2025-04-21 16:12

OMG what a great duo!!!!!

YESSSSSSSSSS!!!!

2025-04-21 16:35

Kudos to PGL for bringing in the OGs back, should be a banger in playoffs.

2025-04-21 16:39

Nice combo, looking forward to it!

2025-04-21 16:49

DiddyK

2025-04-21 17:16

2025-04-21 17:17

games back

2025-04-21 17:31

Great to see Duo Anders and ddk

2025-04-21 18:27

goated talent lineup

2025-04-21 18:51

Need to hire black ddk as well

2025-04-21 18:53

favourite DFN caster makes a duo with the legendary anders, we will be watching

2025-04-21 19:00

so many horrible talents in this event.

make ddk + black ddk and anders + moses again

2025-04-21 19:21

Great News. Good to see him again!!

2025-04-21 19:42

Hype. DDK and Anders is such a wholesome combination.

2025-04-21 20:19

Love DDK. Great caster. I want to see him with James but I will take Anders who is also nice. I would love to see CS TOs give Aussie casters more opportunities because they are really underrated. I would prefer not seeing Hugo and Harry. I find them funny but overall silly as casters especially Harry.

2025-04-21 20:33

Valorant caster, snoozer

2025-04-21 21:30

no bardolph sadge, but at least Anders is back again

2025-04-21 21:48

great, always liked him

2025-04-21 22:43

we need black ddk as well

2025-04-22 01:32

nice now all we need is people to forget what sadokist said and bring him back too

not only what sado said but what he DID. but if he goes on a drunken rampage again no one can guarantee anything like people not getting hurt physically

2025-04-22 03:57

HELL YEAH but where is James Bardolph? we need Bardolph too!

2025-04-22 06:01

W ddk, would've also been good to have black ddk

2025-04-22 12:02

Hate DDK... premium super match and he refused to comm and would lurk every round and die at lvl 7 na But he can apparently talk about cs for a living. This isn't a joke.

2025-04-22 18:01