Deshabandu Ranjan Senerath Madugalle is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who currently serves as the Chief of the panel of ICC match referees. He was educated at Trinity College,Kandy,and Royal College,Colombo.
Richard Keith Illingworth is an English former cricketer,who is currently an umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career was with Worcestershire,although he had a spell with Derbyshire,and overseas with Natal. He played in nine Tests and twenty five ODIs for England,including participating in the 1992 and 1996 Cricket World Cups.
Aleem Dar PP is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer. He has been a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. Dar won the David Shepherd Trophy three years in a row from 2009 to 2011,after being nominated twice in 2005 and 2006. Aleem Dar,Marais Erasmus,Richard Kettleborough,Kumar Dharmasena and Simon Taufel were the only umpires to have received the award from its inception until 2017. Before becoming an umpire,Dar played first-class cricket as a right-handed batsman and a leg-break bowler for Allied Bank,Gujranwala,Lahore and Pakistan Railways teams.
Paul Ronald Reiffel is an Australian former cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1992 to 1999. He was part of Australia's victorious 1999 World Cup team. After retirement he became a first-class cricket umpire. He is currently a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires.
Deshabandu Handunnettige Deepthi Priyantha Kumar Dharmasena is a Sri Lankan cricket umpire and former international cricketer. He is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and the first person to participate in an ICC Cricket World Cup final both as a player and an umpire;he was a member of the Sri Lankan side that won the 1996 Cricket World Cup. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off break bowler.
Christopher Blair Gaffaney is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for Otago. He became an umpire after retiring as a player. A right-handed batsman,he played in 83 first-class and 113 List A matches. At present he serves as an international umpire. Gaffaney is currently a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel and officiates in Tests,One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals.
Michael Andrew Gough is an English cricket umpire and former cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm off-break bowler. Gough is an international umpire and is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires,representing the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Rodney James Tucker is an Australian cricket umpire,member of the ICC Elite Umpire Panel and officiates in international Tests,ODIs and T20Is. He was a cricketer who played briefly for New South Wales from 1985/86 to 1987/88,before moving to Tasmania where he played from 1987/88 to 1998/99. He was also vice-captain of Tasmania from 1991/92 until 1995/96. He briefly played as Captain/Coach for the Canberra Comets in the 1999/2000 season before retiring from cricket as a player.
Nigel James Llong is an English cricket umpire and former first-class cricketer. Until June 2020,he was a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and officiated in international matches - Tests,ODIs and T20Is. Earlier,he had played English domestic cricket during the 1990s with Kent County Cricket Club.
Richard Allan Kettleborough is an English international cricket umpire,and former first-class cricketer who appeared in 33 first-class matches for Yorkshire and Middlesex. He was a left-handed top order batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. He attended Worksop College and was a member of the college cricket XI for a number of years.
Ruchira Palliyaguruge is a Sri Lankan umpire and a former first-class cricketer. He played for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club,Chilaw Marians Cricket Club,Saracens Sports Club,Nondescripts Cricket Club,Old Cambrian Sports Club. Palliyaguruge bowled right-arm medium pace and batted right-handed. Playing mostly club cricket,he has over 200 first-class wickets to his name and also over 4000 runs in a career that began in 1989/90.
Bruce Nicholas James Oxenford is a former Australian cricket umpire and a former cricketer. He has been an ICC international umpire since 2008,when he first umpired an ODI match. He went on to stand in his first Test match in 2010. On 26 September 2012,he was promoted to the ICC Elite Umpire Panel,the highest umpiring body in the game of cricket,replacing his fellow Australian Simon Taufel,who retired from the panel to take up a newly created ICC supervisory and training position.
Suzanne Redfern MBE is an English cricket umpire and former player. She played for the England women's team between 1995 and 1999,including at the 1997 World Cup.
Robert Stephen Dunne is a former New Zealand cricket umpire and a former first-class cricketer. He was the first umpire to officiate in 100 ODIs.
Marais Erasmus is a South African former first-class cricketer who is currently serving as an international cricket umpire. He is a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and stands in matches in all three formats of international cricket –Test matches,One Day Internationals (ODIs),and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
Joel Sheldon Wilson is an international cricket umpire from Trinidad and Tobago. Wilson is currently a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires,representing the West Indies. He stands in matches of all the three formats of international cricket –Tests,One Day Internationals (ODIs) and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is).
Lyndon Hannibal is a Sri Lankan international cricket umpire and a former first class cricketer. He stood as an umpire in the tour match between Sri Lanka Board President's XI vs Indian national cricket team in August 2015.
Hasan Ali is a Pakistani cricketer who plays for the national team in all formats. He made his first-class debut for Sialkot in October 2013. He made his international debut for Pakistan in August 2016 in a One Day International (ODI) match. The following summer,he was named in Pakistan's squad for the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy. Pakistan went on to win the tournament with Ali named player of the tournament after taking thirteen wickets,and took the final wicket of Jasprit Bumrah. He became the quickest bowler for Pakistan to take 50 wickets in ODIs. In August 2018,he was one of thirty-three players to be awarded a central contract for the 2018–19 season by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).
Match officials for the 2019 Cricket World Cup were selected by the ICC's umpire selection panel. The panel selected 16 umpires to officiate at the tournament,four from Australia,five from England,four from Asia,and one from each of New Zealand,South Africa and West Indies. It also selected six match referees for the event.
David McLean is a Scottish advocate and cricket umpire. He is a member of the Development Panel of ICC Umpires. McLean played as a wicket-keeper in local domestic cricket in Scotland,becoming an umpire in 2014. He stood in his first One Day International (ODI) match,between Scotland and Sri Lanka on 21 May 2019. He stood in his first Twenty20 International (T20I) match,between Scotland and the Netherlands on 16 September 2019.
