Appointments finalised for Super Eight and ninth to 12th-place play-off stages of ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier
The referee and umpire appointments have been finalised for the Super Eight and ninth to 12th-place play-off stages of the ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier which is currently underway on the Highveld of South Africa until 19 April.
This stage of the tournament will be refereed by Roshan Mahanama and Chris Broad of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Match Referees.
The umpires for the Super Eight stage are: Paul Baldwin, Gary Baxter, Kumar Dharmasena, Marais Erasmus, Enamul Hoque-Moni, Ian Howell, Karl Hurter, Jeff Luck, Buddhi Pradhan, Sarika Prasad, Amish Saheba, and Rod Tucker.
The umpires for the ninth-12th-place play-offs are: Niels Bagh, Kevan Barbour, Karran Bayney, Subhash Modi, Ian Ramage and Russell Tiffin. Bagh, who is Danish, has been provisionally named as umpire for the ninth-10th-place play-off match on 13 April in Potchefstroom but if Denmark is playing, that appointment will change with Bagh switching games with Subhash Modi.
The ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifier Super Eight stage match appointments are as follows:
11 April Super Eight CANADA v KENYA (Willowmoore Park, Benoni) – Mahanama (referee), Erasmus and Baldwin, Hurter (third) NAMIBIA v UAE (LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria) – Mahanama (referee), Tucker and Pradhan, Hoque-Moni (third) IRELAND v AFGHANISTAN (Stan Friedman Oval, Krugersdorp) – Broad (referee), Howell and Luck, Prasad (third) SCOTLAND v NETHERLANDS (WITS University) – Broad (referee), Saheba and Dharmasena, Baxter (third) Ninth-12th-place play-offs UGANDA v DENMARK (Potchefstroom Cricket Ground) – Mahanama (referee), Tiffin and Ramage, Modi (third)OMAN v BERMUDA (Potchefstroom University) – Mahanama (referee), Barbour and Bayney, Bagh (third) 12 April – rest day 13 April Super Eight NAMIBIA v NETHERLANDS (Willowmoore Park, Benoni) – Mahanama (referee), Hurter and Saheba, Dharmasena (third) CANADA v AFGHANISTAN (LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria) – Mahanama (referee), Hoque-Moni and Erasmus, Luck (third) SCOTLAND v KENYA (Stan Friedman Oval, Krugersdorp) – Broad (referee), Tucker and Howell, Pradhan (third) IRELAND v UAE (WITS University) – Broad (referee), Baxter and Prasad, Baldwin (third)Ninth/10th-place play-off (Potchefstroom Cricket Ground) – Mahanama (referee), Barbour and Bagh*, Bayney (third)11th/12th-place play-off (Potchefstroom University) – Mahanama (referee), Modi and Tiffin, Ramage (third) 14 April – Reserve/training day 15 April Super Eight SCOTLAND v AFGHANISTAN (Willowmoore Park, Benoni) – Mahanama (referee), Howell and Baldwin, Pradhan (third) IRELAND v NETHERLANDS (LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria) – Mahanama (referee), Hoque-Moni and Saheba, Luck (third) CANADA v UAE (Stan Friedman Oval, Krugersdorp) – Broad (referee), Tucker and Baxter, Hurter (third) NAMIBIA v KENYA (WITS University) – Broad (referee), Erasmus and Dharmasena, Prasad (third) 16 April – Reserve/training day17 April Super Eight SCOTLAND v UAE (Willowmoore Park, Benoni) – Mahanama (referee), Pradhan and Saheba, Dharmasena (third)IRELAND v KENYA (LC de Villiers Oval, Pretoria) – Mahanama (referee), Erasmus and Tucker, Baldwin (third)NAMIBIA v AFGHANISTAN (Stan Friedman Oval, Krugersdorp) – Mahanama (referee), Hurter and Prasad, Hoque-Moni (third) CANADA v NETHERLANDS (WITS University) – Mahanama (referee), Luck and Baxter, Howell (third)
*This appointment is provisional and will depend on which teams play in this match. Niels Bagh, who is Danish, will not stand as umpire if Denmark plays in this game. Instead he will switch appointments with Subhash Modi.
Appointments for the final and third to eighth-place play-offs will be made in due course.