ICC unveils umpires, match officials forcoveted 2015 World Cup
The International Cricket Council today named
four World Cup winners in a 25-member match
officials' team for the Cricket World Cup 2015,
to be co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand
from February 14 to March 29.
The team includes five officials from the elite
panel of ICC match referees, 12 umpires from
the elite panel of ICC umpires and eight
umpires from the international panel of ICC
umpires.
The four match referees are David Boon, Chris
Broad, Jeff Crowe, Ranjan Madugalle and
Roshan Mahanama.
The elite panel umpires list has Aleem Dar,
Billy Bowden, Bruce Oxenford, Ian Gould,
Kumar Dharmasena, Marais Erasmus, Nigel
Llong, Paul Reiffel, Richard Illingworth, Richard
Kettleborough, Rod Tucker and Steve Davis.
The international panel umpires will be Johan
Cloete, Simon Fry, Chris Gaffaney, Michael
Gough, Ranmore Martinesz, Ruchira
Palliyaguru, S Ravi and Joel Wilson.
The eight umpires from the international panel
have been identified as emerging and talented
match officials, who have already officiated at
international level.
The World Cup winners in the line-up are Boon,
Dharmasena, Mahanama and Reiffel.
Boon was part of Allan Border's side that
triumphed in Kolkata in World Cup 1987 final,
Dharmasena and Mahanama played in the
World Cup 1996 final in Lahore and Reiffel
represented Australia at Lord's in the World
Cup 1999 final.
In addition to these four, Crowe represented
New Zealand in the 1983 and 1987 World Cups,
Broad featured in three matches of the World
Cup 1987, Illingworth participated in the final
of the World Cup 1992 in Melbourne as well as
in the World Cup 1996 and Madugalle played in
three World Cups -- 1979, 1983 and 1987.
The umpires were chosen by the selection
panel of Geoff Allardice (ICC General Manager
- Cricket), Ranjan Madugalle (ICC Chief Match
Referee), David Lloyd (former player, coach,
umpire and now television commentator) and
Srinivas Venkataraghavan (former elite panel
umpire).
Match appointments will be announced closer
to the warm-up matches.
ICC unveils umpires, match officials for coveted 2015 World Cup