On Wednesday, two weeks out from the beginning of the ICC Males’s Champions Trophy 2025, the Worldwide Cricket Council confirmed the record of match officers for the match. And there’s no Indian presence for the match to be held in Pakistan and United Arab Emirates from 19 February to 9 March.
In keeping with PTI, India’s solely consultant within the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires, Nitin Menon, has opted out of officiating within the Champions Trophy in Pakistan this month because of private causes. “The ICC needed to place him (Menon) on the Champions Trophy roster. However he determined in opposition to travelling to Pakistan because of private causes,” a BCCI supply informed PTI.
Amongst match referees, former India pacer Javagal Srinath can be absent from the ultimate record as he is happening depart. A Instances of India report quoted Srinath, who’s at the moment the referee for the ODI sequence between India and England, as saying: “Sure I had requested for depart as I had fairly a number of days away from residence within the month of November, December and January.” With solely India matches being performed in Dubai, neither Srinath nor Menon could be eligible to officiate within the UAE.
A staff of 12 umpires will take cost of the proceedings within the 8-team match to be performed in Karachi, Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan and Dubai within the UAE. Richard Kettleborough, a veteran of 108 Males’s ODIs, and who stood within the last of the final version performed in the UK in 2017, is amongst six umpires who return for one more Champions Trophy. Chris Gaffaney, Kumar Dharmasena, Richard Illingworth, Paul Reiffel and Rod Tucker, all members of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Umpires, are others who additionally featured in 2017.
Kettleborough and Illingworth, who stood collectively for the ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 last in Ahmedabad, are joined by Michael Gough, Adrian Holdstock, Ahsan Raza, Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid, Alex Wharf and Joel Wilson, all of whom officiated on the World Cup in India.
David Boon, Ranjan Madugalle and Andrew Pycroft, all members of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, comprise the three-member staff of referees.
Umpires: Kumar Dharmasena, Chris Gaffaney, Michael Gough, Adrian Holdstock, Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettleborough, Ahsan Raza, Paul Reiffel, Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid, Rodney Tucker, Alex Wharf, Joel Wilson.
Match Referees: David Boon, Ranjan Madugalle, Andrew Pycroft.
With PTI inputs