The International Cricket Council has introduced the 20 match officers for the League Round of the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2023 in India together with two South Africans.
Adrian Holdstock and Marais Erasmus will make the journey to India as match officers.
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The match officers are made up of 16 umpires and 4 match referees.
The whole Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and 4 members of the ICC Emerging Umpire Panel will stand in the match.
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Two South Africans amongst Cricket World Cup umpires
Umpires: Chris Brown
Kumar Dharmasena
Marais Erasmus
Chris Gaffaney
Michael Gough
Adrian Holdstock
Richard Illingworth
Richard Kettleborough
Nitin Menon
Ahsan Raza
Paul Reiffel
Sharfuddoula Ibne Shaid
Rod Tucker
Alex Wharf
Joel Wilson
Paul Wilson
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The skilled checklist consists of three of the 4 umpires who had been appointed for the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 ultimate at Lord’s – Dharmasena, Erasmus and Tucker – with solely Aleem Dar lacking, who stepped down from the Elite Panel in March of this 12 months.
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The Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees is represented on the occasion by a quartet of former worldwide cricketers, particularly, Jeff Crowe, Andy Pycroft, Richie Richardson and Javagal Srinath.
Srinath will take cost of the match opener between the final occasion’s finalists, England and New Zealand on 5 October in Ahmedabad. Menon and Dharmasena would be the standing umpires, with Paul Wilson as TV umpire and Saikat taking over fourth umpire duties.
The officers have been named for the whole thing of the League section, with the choices for the semi-finals and ultimate of the match to be named in due course.
What they mentioned
Oraganisers clearly hope for a match freed from incident and filled with leisure.
Wasim Khan, ICC General Manager – Cricket, mentioned: “To deliver an event of this magnitude you require high performing individuals at every level. The ICC Elite panel of umpires, referees, and emerging group of umpires involved will bring immense skills, experience and world class standards to this World Cup. We are delighted with the group that we have assembled for this tournament”.
“The ICC Cricket Operations division takes nice pleasure and energy in working a strong and meritocratic choice process with the assistance of our Member Boards.
“Our competitive pathway system continues to see the development and emergence of high-quality match officials across the game. We are pleased that four members of the ICC Emerging Umpire Panel have earned the opportunity to be part of this showcase event. We also wish them, and all the other match officials involved all the very best for the tournament.”
Sean Easey, ICC Manager – Umpires and Referees mentioned: “We are happy to announce the match officers who shall be overseeing the largest ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup ever. This group is the perfect from world wide and shall be prepared to carry out a difficult job, with the eyes of the worldwide cricketing neighborhood focussed on the occasion.
“We are confident that they will do an excellent job and wish them all the best of luck for what promises to be a World Cup to remember.”
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