Umpires for Zimbabwe ODI's announced

Former Indian skipper Srinivas Venkataraghavan of Tamil Nadu and Hariharan of Delhi will officiate in the second one-day international between India and Zimbabwe, at Ahmedabad, on December 5.

Bombay's Samir Bandekar and V M Gupte will be the third and fourth umpires respectively.

Board of Control for Cricket in India executive secretary Sharad Diwadkar said on Thursday the umpires for the first one-dayer, to be held at Cuttack on December 2, are former Karnataka allrounder A V Jayaprakash and Jasbir Singh.

Calcutta's S Banerjee and S Chaudhury will be the thrid and fourth umpires respectively.

Delhi's S K Bansal and Baroda's C R Mohite are the two umpires for the third one-dayer, to be held at Jodhpur on December 8, while Dr S C Gupta of Uttar Pradesh and F Gomes of Calcutta will be the third and fourth umpires respectively.

C K Sathe of Pune and Devendra Sharma of Delhi will officiate at Kanpur in the fourth one-dayer on December 11, while G A Pratapkumar and S Laxmanan (both from Tamil Nadu) will be the third and fourth umpires respectively.

Karnataka's V K Kulkarni and Gujarat's A M Saheba will officiate in the fifth and final one-dayer at Rajkot on December 14 while K Murali of Tamil Nadu and S K Tarapore of Karnataka will be the third and fourth umpires respectively.

Mail Cricket Editor