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Coronavirus Outbreak: ICC Elite Panel umpire Aleem Dar offers free food to jobless at his Lahore restaurant
•Pakistani umpire Aleem Dar is offering free food at his restaurant here for all those rendered jobless by the COVID-19 pandemic
Australia vs New Zealand: Nathan Lyon stars as hosts close out home Test season with series clean sweep over Kiwis
•Australia quickly wrapped up victory on the fourth day at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday, first dominating with the bat and then simply sweeping away the tourists’ batsmen in a devastating bowling spell in the afternoon
Australia vs New Zealand: Pakistan's Aleem Dar set to surpass Steve Bucknor's record for most Tests as umpire
•Aleem Dar, who took up umpiring after a decade of playing first-class cricket in Pakistan, stands in his 129th Test match as on-field umpire since his debut in Dhaka in 2003 during England's tour of Bangladesh.
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: ICC appoints former Australia batsman David Boon as match referee for T20I and ODI series
•The ICC confirmed on Saturday that David Boon would be the match referee for the series of three ODIs and three T20 internationals in Karachi and Lahore from 27 September to 9 October.
MCC Cricket Committee plays down call for 'neutral' umpires in Test cricket after first Ashes match debacle
•The MCC cricket committee has played down calls for neutral umpires to be replaced in Test cricket after Joel Wilson's decisions in the first Test between England and Australia came in for widespread criticism.
Ashes 2019: 20 reviews, 10 overturned, Edgbaston errors highlight cricket’s umpiring problem
Charles Reynolds •It would have taken something pretty special to steal the limelight from Steve Smith’s comeback twin hundreds, but that doesn't mean the umpires didn't still make a pretty good go at it in the first Ashes Test.
Ashes 2019: Former Australia captain Ricky Ponting calls for cricket to rethink neutral umpires after error-strewn first day
•Umpires Aleem Dar and Joel Wilson drew widespread criticism after a rocky day one at Edgbaston on Friday, with a number of their calls over-turned by the decision review system after Australia elected to bat.
India's S Ravi excluded from ICC Elite Panel of Umpires for 2019-20 season; Michael Gough and Joel Wilson included in list
•Gough and Wilson have been elevated from the Emirates ICC International Panel of Umpires by the selection panel consisting of ICC General Manager - Cricket, Geoff Allardice, former player and now commentator Sanjay Manjrekar, and match referees Ranjan Madugalle and David Boon.
Ireland vs England: Irish skipper William Porterfield unhappy with Ben Foakes’ controversial ‘delayed’ stumping
•Ireland captain William Porterfield has blasted England's Ben Foakes for his delayed stumping of Andrew Balbirnie during England's one-day-international win in Dublin, saying matches could last "15 hours" if every wicket-keeper waited as long to try to effect a dismissal.
South Africa vs Sri Lanka: Umpire Aleem Dar's decision of turning down touring side's delayed appeal of DRS comes under question
•In an analysis, it was revealed that the total time between umpire turning down the appeal and Karunaratne asking for a review was 12 seconds which is within the permitted time to ask for DRS