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Non Footy Appointments / Re: International Cricket Appointments
« on: Sun 18 Jan 2026 02:55 »
Third ODI between India and New-Zealand:
Match Officials remain same as that of First ODI.

So yet again, Saikat is doing off the field duties.

The reason should be quite obvious then.

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Non Footy Appointments / Re: International Cricket Appointments
« on: Wed 14 Jan 2026 06:46 »
Seems like the issues between two nations have kept Saikat for only off the field duties like TV umpire. This is probably because ODI needs two neutral appointments.
I don't find any other reason than this or him being actually physically unfit.

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Non Footy Appointments / Re: International Cricket Appointments
« on: Thu 16 Oct 2025 15:46 »
After a long gap, the umpires' exchange program seems to have been resumed by the BCCI and Cricket Australia.
As per the BCCI website and app, Donovan Koch from Australia will be officiating in the Ranji Trophy (India's Domestic first-class championship).

8 Nov - 11 Nov 2025
Match   Vidarbha vs Odisha
Venue   Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha
On-Field Umpires   Kuppuraj Madanagopal, Donovan Koch

16 Nov - 19 Nov 2025
Match   Punjab vs Maharashtra
Venue   PCA New Cricket Stadium
On-Field Umpires   Tapan Sharma, Donovan Koch

It's interesting to see who will travel to Australia for the Sheffield Shield matches. According to the CA website, for the first 9 matches, no appointments have been made from India. So, most probably, it will be in December for someone from BCCI to visit Australia. What I think is that someone from the current International Panel umpires from India will travel there, like Koch is going to.

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Non Footy Appointments / Re: ICC Elite Panel 2025/26
« on: Wed 26 Mar 2025 15:20 »
Quote from: Marcus on Tue 25 Mar 2025 21:50
All very interesting. As others note, surely a personal decision from Gough a la Taufel to spend more time with family, notwithstanding his relative lack of major finals was clearly highly rated. I always feel a bit sorry for people who appear to have been dropped for performance reasons but Wilson was clearly below par statistically and seemed to have lost some faith with players (eg. media reports re: Kuhnemann throwing report).

Did also think Wharf and Brown were first two due for promotion, one does wonder if the need to balance national representation on the panel also plays a part. Will be interesting to see if both are replaced on the Emerging Panel, if Madanagopal is already on you would think he would also be joined by Nogajski or Riaz based on the World T20

I don't think Nogajski will be added. He had a poor run in T20 WC itself. Some of the decisions were questionable. Most probably it would be Riaz if they decide to add 2.

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Non Footy Appointments / Re: ICC Elite Panel 2025/26
« on: Tue 25 Mar 2025 16:10 »
What I think is Gough's exit is more likely a personal decision. More and more umpires now have chosen to step down from international umpiring (especially the Elite Panel) and focus more on leagues and domestic matches. Paul Wilson and Marais Erasmus stood down from international umpiring last year and are seen doing T20 leagues. I will be surprised if Gough's exit is due to performance.

Joel Wilson was long due to go.

I feel Wharf was due before Saikat joined the panel, but I think it is just that they could not onboard a fourth Englishman in the elite panel last year. I believe Wharf was in the reckoning before Brown. But yeah, Brown is also due to join in next.

I think umpires nearing 60 years or more will retire next year (probably Tucker, Illingworth and Reiffel). But yeah neither of the three are bad enough to be removed.

Also heard that Jayaraman Madanagopal from India has been added to the emerging panel. Wonder who will be the other one joining the emerging panel after the promotion of Palekar and Wharf to the elite panel.

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