{"id":410948,"date":"2025-09-09T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410948\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:07:11","slug":"asia-cup-2025-full-list-of-umpires-and-match-officials-for-each-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410948\/","title":{"rendered":"Asia Cup 2025: Full List Of Umpires And Match Officials For Each Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200px\" height=\"675px\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3hjxdJySij.jpg\"  alt=\"Match referee Andy Pycroft during the 2nd Vitality IT20 match between England and Australia at Sophia Gardens on September 13, 2024 in Cardiff, Wales\" importance=\"low\" class=\"lazy\"\/>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"drop-cap-intro\">The Asian Cricket Council has announced the list of umpires and match referees for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/asia-cup-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Asia Cup 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Match officials announced for Asia Cup group-stage <\/p>\n<p>Veteran match referees Richie Richardson and Andy Pycroft will be leading the panel of officials for the 12-match group stage of the 2025 Asia Cup, to be held <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisden.com\/series\/asia-cup-2025\/cricket-news\/explained-why-match-start-times-have-been-changed-for-the-2025-asia-cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">between September 9 and 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The umpiring panel includes India\u2019s Virender Sharma and Rohan Pandit, Bangladesh\u2019s Gazi Sohel and Masudur Rahman, Sri Lanka\u2019s Raveendra Wimalasiri and Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Afghanistan\u2019s Ahmad Pakteen and Izatullah Safi, and Pakistan\u2019s Asif Yaqoob and Faisal Afridi.<\/p>\n<p>The high-voltage India-Pakistan clash will have Palliyaguruge and Rahman as the on-field umpires, Ahmad Pakteen as the TV umpire, Izatullah Safi as the fourth umpire, and Pycroft as the match referee.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will feature eight teams divided into two groups \u2013 Group A: Oman, UAE, Pakistan, and India; Group B: Afghanistan, Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka \u2013 vying for the title. After the completion of the group stage, the top two teams from each group will advance to the Super Fours stage, with the top two sides playing the final on September 28.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud835\udc13\ud835\udc21\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc1b\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc2d\ud835\udc25\ud835\udc1e \ud835\udc1f\ud835\udc28\ud835\udc2b \ud835\udc00\ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc22\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc27 \ud835\udc2c\ud835\udc2e\ud835\udc29\ud835\udc2b\ud835\udc1e\ud835\udc26\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc32 \ud835\udc22\ud835\udc2c \ud835\udc1b\ud835\udc1a\ud835\udc1c\ud835\udc24! \ud83c\udfcf<\/p>\n<p>The ACC Men\u2019s T20I Asia Cup kicks off from 9th to 28th September in the UAE! \ud83e\udd29<\/p>\n<p>Get ready for thrilling matchups as the top 8 teams in Asia face off for continental glory! \ud83d\udc4a<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACCMensAsiaCup2025?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ACCMensAsiaCup2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ACC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JzvV4wuxna\">pic.twitter.com\/JzvV4wuxna<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AsianCricketCouncil (@ACCMedia1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ACCMedia1\/status\/1949119883112804805?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 26, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  Asia Cup 2025: Full list of umpires and match officials  <\/p>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"215\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 161pt; height: 15pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>Date &amp; Day<\/strong><\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"217\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 163pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>Match<\/strong><\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"269\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 202pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>On-Field Umpires<\/strong><\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"160\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 120pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>TV Umpire<\/strong><\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"151\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 113pt; text-align: center;\"><strong>Fourth Umpire<\/strong><\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" width=\"140\" class=\"xl68\" style=\"width: 105pt;\"><strong>Match Referee<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Tuesday, September 9<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Afghanistan vs Hong Kong<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Asif Yaqoob, Virender Sharma<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Faisal Afridi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Raveendra Wimalasiri<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Wednesday, September 10<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">India vs United Arab Emirates<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gazi Sohel, Izatullah Safi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ruchira Palliyaguruge<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Masudur Rahman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Andy Pycroft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Thursday, September 11<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bangladesh vs Hong Kong<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Raveendra Wimalasiri, Rohan Pandit<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Asif Yaqoob<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Faisal Afridi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Friday, September 12<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Pakistan vs Oman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Masudur Rahman, Ahmad Pakteen<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gazi Sohel<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ruchira Palliyaguruge<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Andy Pycroft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Saturday, September 13<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rohan Pandit, Faisal Afridi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Virender Sharma<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Asif Yaqoob<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Sunday, September 14<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">India vs Pakistan<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Masudur Rahman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ahmad Pakteen<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Izatullah Safi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Andy Pycroft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Monday, September 15<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">UAE vs Oman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Virender Sharma, Asif Yaqoob<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Raveendra Wimalasiri<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rohan Pandit<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Monday, September 15<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Sri Lanka vs Hong Kong<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gazi Sohel, Izatullah Safi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Masudur Rahman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ahmad Pakteen<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Andy Pycroft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Tuesday, September 16<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Bangladesh vs Afghanistan<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Faisal Afridi, Raveendra Wimalasiri<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rohan Pandit<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Virender Sharma<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Wednesday, September 17<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Pakistan vs UAE<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Ahmad Pakteen, Ruchira Palliyaguruge<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Izatullah Safi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Gazi Sohel<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Andy Pycroft<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Thursday, September 18<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Asif Yaqoob, Virender Sharma<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Faisal Afridi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Rohan Pandit<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 15.0pt;\">\n<td dir=\"LTR\" height=\"20\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"height: 15pt; text-align: center;\">Friday, September 19<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">India vs Oman<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Raveendra Wimalasiri, Faisal Afridi<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Asif Yaqoob<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Virender Sharma<\/td>\n<td dir=\"LTR\" class=\"xl69\">Richie Richardson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<p>         <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Asian Cricket Council has announced the list of umpires and match referees for the Asia Cup 2025.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410948","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175440693229497","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}