LAHORE – Pakistan’s Aleem Dar, who officiated in the World Cup final between India and Sri Lanka last week, and Australian Simon Taufel were on Thursday named among the 17 on-field umpires for the fourth edition of the Indian Premier League commencing on Friday at Chennai. Taufel, a winner of five consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year awards, and Dar, winner of two consecutive ICC Umpire of the Year Awards, will share the responsibility with some of cricket’s most respected international umpires including Asad Rauf, Rudi Koertzen and Billy Doctrove.
Seven umpires from across India, including Amish Saheba and Shavir Tarapore, have also got a call from IPL administrators to officiate in the seven week-long Twenty20 tournament, starting with the clash between defending champions Chennai Super Kings, led by Indian skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Kolkata Knight Riders, captained by Gautam Gambhir.
Roshan Mahanama, Javagal Srinath and Andy Pycroft, along with three others, have been named as match referees, while the fourth umpire panel consists of 10 officials.
The list of umpires and match referees for IPL 2011 is as follows:
Umpires: Paul Reiffel, Asad Rauf, Rudi Koertzen, Simon Taufel, Aleem Dar, Rod Tucker, Tony Hill, Kumar Dharmasena, Russell Tiffin, Amish Saheba, Shavir Tarapore, Sanjay Hazare, Sudhir Asnani, S Ravi, Krishna Hariharan, Suresh Shastri and Billy Doctrove.
Match Referees: Roshan Mahanama, Graeme Labrooy, Javagal Srinath, Andy Pycroft, Devdas Govindjee and Ranjan Mukherjee.
Fourth Umpires: Subrat Das, C Shamshuddin, Nikhil Patwardhan, K Srinath, Vineet Kulkarni, Nandan, K N Ananthapadmanabhan, Anil Choudhary, Ravi Subramanyam, K Barthan.
