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ICC name match officials for England tour
The International Cricket Council (ICC) has named the match officials for Englands tour of Sri Lanka with former West Indies Captain Clive Lloyd assigned as the match referee.

Australian Umpire Daryl Harper will officiate as the ICC Umpire for all three One day Internationals along with a local umpire who will be nominated by Sri Lanka Cricket(SLC) shortly.

The ICC Umpires for the three tests are as follows. Daryl Harper and S. Venkataraghavan (first test),Harper and Aleem Dar (second test) and Aleem Dar and Steve Bucknor (third test).

Sri Lanka Cricket was expected to nominate the third umpire and Stand bye umpire for the three test matches along with one umpire for each ODI. However The Sunday Times learns that the local umpires have not been finalised todate. -MF


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