{"id":20784,"date":"2013-06-28T23:11:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/former-internationals-replaces-rauf-and-bowden\/"},"modified":"2013-06-28T23:11:08","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:11:08","slug":"former-internationals-replaces-rauf-and-bowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/former-internationals-replaces-rauf-and-bowden\/","title":{"rendered":"Former internationals replaces Rauf and Bowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Richard_illingworth.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"lightbox[6715]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"English: Richard Illingworth motions for a mem...\" alt=\"English: Richard Illingworth motions for a mem...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/34c35_300px-Richard_illingworth.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard Illingworth. Photo: Wikipedia<\/p>\n<p>The International Cricket Council (<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/fica-responds-to-iccs-disappointment\/\" target=\"_blank\">ICC<\/a>) announced today that former Test cricketers <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Richard Illingworth\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Illingworth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Richard Illingworth<\/a> and Paul Reiffel have been selected on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires following the annual review and selection process.<\/p>\n<p>Illingworth and Reiffel have joined Aleem Dar, Kumar Dharmasena, Steve Davis, Marais Erasmus, Ian Gould, Tony Hill, Richard Kettleborough, Nigel Llong, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Bruce Oxenford\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bruce_Oxenford\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Bruce Oxenford<\/a> and Rod Tucker in the panel for the 2013-2014 season, commencing 1 July 2013.<\/p>\n<p>The two former internationals have replaced Asad Rauf and Billy Bowden.<\/p>\n<p>Illingworth has been umpiring international cricket since July 2010 and has so far umpired in four Tests, 16 One-Day Internationals and seven Twenty20 Internationals, while Reiffel, who made his international umpiring debut in January 2009, has stood in four Tests, 30 One-Day Internationals and nine Twenty20 Internationals.<\/p>\n<p>The Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires was selected by the ICC Umpires Selection Panel consisting of Chairman, Geoff Allardice, ICC\u2019s General Manager \u2013 Cricket, ICC Chief Match Referee Ranjan Madugalle, ex-<a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"England\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=51.5,-0.116666666667spn=10.0,10.0q=51.5,-0.116666666667 (England)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">England<\/a> player and coach and umpire, David Lloyd, and Srinivas Venkataraghavan, the former India captain and international umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of the ICC Umpires Selection Panel, Mr Allardice, said: \u201cIt is exciting to see Richard and Paul promoted to the elite panel, but it is also important to acknowledge and appreciate the outstanding contributions of Asad and Billy over a long period of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Billy-Bowden-dropped-from-ICC-umpires-panel\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/302771\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/34c35_179845166_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3news.co.nz\/Billy-Bowden-dropped-from-ICC-umpires-panel\/tabid\/415\/articleID\/302771\/Default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Bowden dropped from ICC umpires panel<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-2348044\/Youre-Umpires-Rauf-Bowden-dismissed-international-Elite-Panel.html?ITO=1490ns_mchannel=rssns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/34c35_179871138_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/cricket\/article-2348044\/Youre-Umpires-Rauf-Bowden-dismissed-international-Elite-Panel.html?ITO=1490ns_mchannel=rssns_campaign=1490\" target=\"_blank\">You\u2019re out! 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Photo: Wikipedia The International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today that former Test cricketers Richard Illingworth and Paul Reiffel have been selected on the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires following the annual review and selection process. Illingworth and Reiffel have joined Aleem Dar, Kumar Dharmasena, Steve Davis, Marais Erasmus, Ian Gould, Tony Hill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20784","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}