MUMBAI - The name of a Pakistan umpire who officiates in the Indian Premier League (IPL) matches has emerged in connection with the Mumbai police's investigations into spot-fixing.He was one of the umpires in the controversial match in which the three arrested Rajasthan Royals- S Sreesanth, Ajit ...

LAHORE - Pakistani international umpire Nadeem Ghauri Sunday vowed to appeal against a ban imposed for spot-fixing after he was allegedly found willing to give favourable decisions in return for money.On Saturday the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) banned Ghauri for four years and first-class umpire ...

LONDON : Australian Simon Taufel will this year become the first umpire to give the prestigious MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) announced on Friday. The lecture began in 2001 in memory of former Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) president Colin Cowdrey, ...

MELBOURNE  Cricket Australia (CA) on Wednesday announced that the third umpire intervention system will not be used in the 2012-13 season in their domestic Twenty20 tournament, the Big Bash League (BBL). The on-field umpire can still refer decisions to the third umpire to determine run-outs, ...

Aleem Dar of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires was honoured for becoming only the seventh umpire in the history of the sport to officiate in 150 ODIs when he took the field for the five-ODI series opener between England and Australia at Lord’s on Friday. To mark the achievement, Javagal ...

BIRMINGHAM Nigel Llong has been selected to replace Billy Doctrove on the International Cricket Council (ICC) panel of elite umpires for the 2012/13 season, the global governing body announced Monday. The 43-year-old Englishman has come in for Doctrove following the West Indian official’s ...

LAHORE - Pakistan’s outstanding umpire Aleem Dar, has carved his name under another record in cricketing history. Aleem Dar has become the first one from Asia to supervise more than 73 matches. The pride of Pakistan, umpire, Aleem Dar is the only umpire from Asia who has looked-over a game of ...

Legend Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar has become the Asian No 1 umpire to supervise most test matches during his career. He achieved this landmark after standing in 74th match of his International career between England and West Indies on Friday. Aleem Dar has broken the record of Indian umpire S. ...

COLOMBO - Umpires warned England batsman Kevin Pietersen twice for changing stance to attempt a switch hit during the second Test against Sri Lanka on Thursday.The flamboyant Pietersen was spoken to by Bruce Oxenford and Asad Rauf after bowler Tillakaratne Dilshan had to stop twice in his run-up as ...

BANGALORE (Agencies) - The much-debated UDRS System came into sharp focus for third time in the World Cup on Sunday as on-field umpire in the India-Ireland match gave an Irish batsman out LBW even though the point of impact of the ball on the pad was more than 2.5 metres from stumps, The Times of ...

BIPIN DANI MUMBAI - Christopher Blair Gaffaney, one of the umpires, supervising the ongoing ODI series between New Zealand and Pakistan teams, is also a police officer, according to Roger McHarg, the manager for umpires, New Zealand Cricket (NZC). Speaking exclusively, McHarg said, "I can not ...

PUNE (India) - In sports, the players are at the mercy of umpires who are being officiated to supervise the game and have the authority to make decisions on the field. In a cricket match, the umpires also officiate at short-leg, but Sri Lanka's 71-year-old former umpire, KT Francis (full name ...

PUNE (India) Had Daryl Harper continued his career as a primary school teacher, the world would not have seen him becoming the first ICC umpire to officiate at 50 different Test venues. The new venue Abu Dhabi where Pakistan is hosting the Test against South Africa is the 103rd international Test ...

PUNE (India) Ross Emerson, one of the two Australian umpires, the other being Darrell Hair, who no-balled Muttiah Muralitharan for an illegal bowling action was unfit to stand in that match (1998-99), claimed Thilanga Sumathipala, the former president of the then Board of Control for Cricket in ...

LAHORE - South African umpire Rudi Koertzen of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires made history when he became the first umpire to stand in 200 One-Day Internationals by umpiring in the second ODI between Ireland and Kenya in Dublin. Koertzen (60) made his international debut on 9 December 1992 in a ...

KARACHI - Mian Aslam, a senior and reputed umpire fainted and was stretchered out of the ground midway through Sui Southern Gas and NBP match on the second day of the Quaid Trophy match here at the NBP ground on Saturday. Mian Aslam collapsed when he was entering the ground after SSG innings was ...