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Umpires named for Ireland matches

June 18, 2007 17:37 IST
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Umpires Mark Benson, Billy Bowden and Aleem Dar will stand in the upcoming cricket matches in Ireland, which will also see India and South Africa in action.

Australia's Alan Hurst has been appointed match referee for the matches, to be played between June 23 and July 1.

India's match against Ireland at Stormont will have Englishman Mark Benson and New Zealander Billy Bowden as on-field umpires, with Pakistan's Aleem Dar the third umpire.

Benson and Dar will stand in the India-South Africa matches on June 26 and July 1, while Bowden will stand with Benson when Rahul Dravid's team clashes with the Proteas on June 29.

The India-Pakistan one-dayer, scheduled for July 3 in Glasgow, will be officiated by Benson and South African Ian Gould. Sri Lankan Roshan Mahanama will be the match referee.

Meanwhile, India's Suresh Shastri will stand in the first and third Tests between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh to be held in Colombo and Kandy respectively. The series will have Jeff Crowe of New Zealand as match referee.

Shastri will stand with Pakistan's Asad Rauf in the first Test from June 25 to 29 and with South African Rudi Koertzen in the third from July 11 to 15.

The second Test in Colombo from July 3 to 7 will see Koertzen and Rauf as umpires.

Meanwhile, Darrell Hair, who is on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires, will officiate Canada's match against the Netherlands in the ICC Intercontinental Cup series in Toronto from June 28 to July 1, an ICC statement said.

Besides Hair, Bermuda's Roger Dill of the ICC Associates and Affiliates Umpires Panel would also stand in the game.

Hair, after being banned from ICC's Elite panel of umpires, had also officiated in the ODI tri-series between Kenya, Canada and Scotland in January.

The Australian and Dill would also umpire in the two ODIs between Canada and the Netherlands in Toronto on July 3 and 4.

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