International Panel of Umpires and Referees

The International Panel of ICC Umpires was established by the ICC

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

in 1994 following trial in 1992/3, to ensure that one neutral umpire would stand in every Test match. It is made up of officials nominated from each of the ten Test playing cricket boards. From 2002, its role in Tests was largely supplanted by the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires.

Umpires from the International Panel are employed to officiate home One Day international matches, but may also be called upon to aid the Elite Panel in Test matches and overseas ODIs during busy cricketing calendar years. Each full member nation nominates two onfield umpires and a 3rd umpire to join the panel.

Current panel

As of the 5 November 2011 the ICC International Panel consisted of:

Nominated onfield umpires:

Umpire	Date of birth	Tests	ODIs	T20Is	Country
Bruce Oxenford Bruce Oxenford Bruce Nicholas James Oxenford is an Australian cricket umpire.-Playing career:Oxenford played in eight first-class matches for Queensland during the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons.-Umpiring career:...	5 March 1960	2	29	9	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Paul Reiffel Paul Reiffel Paul Ronald Reiffel is a former Australian cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 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.-Playing career:Reiffel's career best bowling figures of 6-71 came at...	19 April 1966	0	11	6	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Enamul Haque Enamul Haque Enamul Haque is a former Bangladeshi cricketer who played in 10 Tests and 29 ODIs from 1990 to 2003....	27 February 1966	0	34	3	Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
Nadir Shah Nadir Shah (umpire) Nadir Shah is an international cricket umpire from Bangladesh. A member of the ICC International umpire panel, he made his umpiring debut in a One Day International between Bangladesh and Kenya at Bogra in March 2006. His brother Jahangir Shah, played ODI cricket for Bangladesh.-References:*...	7 February 1964	0	39	2	Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
Nigel Llong Nigel Llong Nigel James Llong was a cricketer with Kent. He made his debut in 1990 and won his county cap in 1993. He was a left hand bat and off spin bowler. Llong has since become an umpire, officiating his maiden first class match in June 2000.-Umpiring career:Llong was appointed to the ECB's panel of...	11 February 1969	11	48	16	England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth Richard Illingworth is an English former cricketer, who is currently a first-class cricket umpire. The bulk of his domestic cricketing career occurred with Worcestershire, although he had a spell with Derbyshire, and overseas with Natal...	23 August 1963	0	6	3	England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Sudhir Asnani	7 December 1960	0	5	1	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Shavir Tarapore Shavir Tarapore Shavir Tarapore, , is an Indian One Day International and Twenty20 cricket umpire, who has umpired 9 ODIs and 2 T20Is.Shavir Tarapore first stood in an International ODI in 1999. He has since umpired 9 ODIs and 2 T20Is....	26 December 1957	1	22	3	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Gary Baxter	5 March 1952	0	33	9	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Chris Gaffaney Chris Gaffaney Christopher Blair Gaffaney is a New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts. A right-handed batsman, he played in 83 first-class matches....	30 November 1975	0	6	4	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Ahsan Raza Ahsan Raza Ahsan Raza is a former Pakistani first class cricketer who is currently a cricket umpire.-Playing career:Ahsan Raza played for a number of Pakistani teams including Faisalabad, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore and Sargodha....	29 May 1974	0	2	0	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Zameer Haider Zameer Haider Zameer Haider is as an international cricket umpire.- Career :Haider made his debut as an umpire in 2006 when he supervised a match played between Pakistan and West Indies at Multan Cricket Stadium...	30 September 1962	0	11	5	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Shaun George	25 January 1968	0	1	2	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
Johan Cloete	21 July 1971	0	13	2	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
Asoka de Silva	28 March 1956	49	121	10	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
Ranmore Martinesz	24 June 1967	0	4	3	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
Joel Wilson	30 December 1966	0	1	0	West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles... )
Peter Nero	27 June 1964	0	6	2	West Indies (Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad and Tobago officially the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago is an archipelagic state in the southern Caribbean, lying just off the coast of northeastern Venezuela and south of Grenada in the Lesser Antilles... )
Owen Chirombe Owen Chirombe Owen Chirombe is a Zimbabwean cricket umpire. He first umpired in first-class cricket in 2005, and in 2010 was involved in international cricket for the first time, umpiring a One Day International between Zimbabwe and Ireland....	30 March 1973	0	8	4	Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...
Russell Tiffin Russell Tiffin Russell Blair Tiffin is a current international cricket umpire, and a former Test cricket umpire. He has been a member of the ICC International umpire panel since 1995. He became a member of the ICC Elite Panel in April 2001, but was demoted in February 2004 along with Asoka de Silva and Dave...	4 June 1959	44	124	4	Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

Nominated 3rd umpires:

Umpire	Date of birth	ODIs¹	T20Is¹	Country
Simon Fry Simon Fry Simon Douglas Fry is an international cricket umpire from Australia. He was chosen by Cricket Australia for International exchange program of senior cricket umpires in between Australia and New Zealand...	29 July 1966	1	1	Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Sharfuddoula Sharfuddoula Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid known as Sharfuddoula or Saikat is a cricket umpire and former player.-Playing career:In 1994 Sharfuddoula played three matches for Bangladesh at the 1994 ICC Trophy in Kenya....	16 October 1976	5	0	Bangladesh Bangladesh Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
Rob Bailey	28 October 1963	1	2	England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
Vineet Kulkarni	6 October 1979	0	0	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Ravi S.	22 April 1966	0	1	India India India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
Barry Frost	6 February 1958	0	1	New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
Shozab Raza	29 May 1974	0	0	Pakistan Pakistan Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Adrian Holdstock	27 April 1970	0	1	South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
Ruchira Palliyaguruge	22 January 1968	1	2	Sri Lanka Sri Lanka Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a country off the southern coast of the Indian subcontinent. Known until 1972 as Ceylon , Sri Lanka is an island surrounded by the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait, and lies in the vicinity of India and the...
Gregory Braithwaite	9 December 1969	2	0	West Indies (Barbados Barbados Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles. It is in length and as much as in width, amounting to . It is situated in the western area of the North Atlantic and 100 kilometres east of the Windward Islands and the Caribbean Sea; therein, it is about east of the islands of Saint... )
Nigel Duguid	25 November 1969	0	0	West Indies (Guyana Guyana Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British... )
Jeremiah Matibiri	31 May 1971	0	4	Zimbabwe Zimbabwe Zimbabwe is a landlocked country located in the southern part of the African continent, between the Zambezi and Limpopo rivers. It is bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia and a tip of Namibia to the northwest and Mozambique to the east. Zimbabwe has three...

*Statistics represent onfield experience. Correct as of 5 November 2011.

Original panel

The original members of the International Panel in 1994 were:

Australia: Darrel Hair, Steve Randell
Steve Randell
Stephen Grant Randell, , is a former Australian Test cricket match umpire, the first to come from Tasmania....
England: Dickie Bird, Ken Palmer
Ken Palmer
Ken Palmer is an English former cricketer and umpire, who played in one Test in 1965, and umpired twenty two Tests and twenty three ODIs from 1977 to 2001.-Life and career:...

, Nigel Plews
Nigel Plews
Nigel Trevor Plews was a cricket umpire, who stood in first class and international level matches. He was born in Nottingham....

, David Shepherd
David Shepherd (umpire)
David Robert Shepherd MBE was one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June 2005, and officiated in three World Cup finals.- Playing career :...
India: VK Ramaswamy, Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan
Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan ; is a former Indian cricketer. He played for Derbyshire in English county cricket from 1973 to 1975. He played Test cricket for the Indian cricket team, and later became an umpire on the elite International Cricket Council Test panel...
New Zealand: Brian Aldridge
Brian Aldridge
Brian Aldridge is a retired professional cricket player and professional cricket umpire, and the National Umpiring Manager for New Zealand cricket. He was one of the umpires in the 1992 Cricket World Cup final between England and Pakistan.-References:...

, Steve Dunne
Steve Dunne (cricket umpire)
Robert Stephen Dunne was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He was the first umpire to stand in 100 ODIs.Steve Dunne was born in Dunedin, Otago. He is married with two sons...
Pakistan: Khizar Hayat, Mahboob Shah
Mahboob Shah
Syed Mahboob Ali Shah is a former Pakistani first-class cricketer and Test cricket umpire.Mahboob Shah was born in Delhi. Before becoming an umpire, he played in 14 first-class matches for Baluchistan, Central Zone, Karachi Whites, Karachi C, Quetta and Karachi University between 1954/55 and...
South Africa: Barry Lambson, Karl Liebenberg
Sri Lanka: B. C. Cooray
B. C. Cooray
Bulathsinghalage Cyril Cooray , was an international cricket umpire from Sri Lanka. He officiated in 21 Test matches and 48 ODI's.-External links:...

, K. T. Francis
K. T. Francis
K. T. Francis, full name Kandiah Thirugnansampandapillai Francis , is a former cricket umpire. Francis officiated in 25 Tests and 56 One Day Internationals between 1982 and 1999, mostly in his own country...
West Indies: Lloyd Barker
Lloyd Barker
Lloyd Hamilton Barker is a cricket umpire who officiated in 29 Tests and 37 One Day Internationals from 1984 to 1997. Barker's first Test as umpire was the Third Test between West Indies and Australia in 1984...

, Steve Bucknor
Steve Bucknor
The Honourable Stephen Anthony Bucknor OJ, also known as Steve Bucknor, is a former international cricket umpire. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 31 May 1946. He became a high school mathematics teacher and sports coach, before becoming an international football referee and a cricket umpire...
Zimbabwe: Kantilal Kanjee
Kantilal Kanjee
Kantilal Kanjee is a Zimbabwean former first-class and Test cricket umpire.Kanjee was born in Salisbury and is of Asian descent. He umpired first-class matches in Rhodesia from 1972. At the time, Rhodesian teams took part in the South African domestic first-class competition, the Currie Cup...

, Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson (cricket umpire)
Ian David Robinson , in Oxford, England, was a Zimbabwean cricket umpire who officiated in 28 Test Matches and 90 One Day Internationals. He had made his umpiring debut in Zimbabwe's inaugural Test, against India at Harare in 1992...

Current panel

Original panel

See also