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CSA names 2015/16 umpire panel

Cape Town - Cricket South Africa (CSA) on Wednesday announced the umpires’ and match referees’ panels for the 2015/16 season.

Two umpires - Stephen Harris and Clifford Isaacs - have been promoted from the amateur panel to the national first-class panel.

In addition, there are four newcomers to the amateur panel in Gladman Gaseba, Kevin Lawrence, Hassen Dawood and Bongani Ntshebe who have shown promise at the various select CSA tournaments.

At the top end of the spectrum Marais Erasmus serves on the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires while Johan Cloete, Shaun George and Adrian Holdstock are all members of the ICC International Panel of Umpires.

The national match referees panel is unchanged.

“Congratulations to all our umpires on their deserved appointments for next season,” commented CSA Chief Executive, Haroon Lorgat. “Umpires are central to the game of cricket and we are fortunate to have an extremely competent group of match officials.

“We will continue to create opportunities for them to develop through our exchange programmes with Australia, India and New Zealand.

“I would like to single out Brian Jerling, ‘The General’, as he is affectionately known. He has decided to call time after serving South African cricket for the past 27 years with distinction. As the then convener of selectors I recall his being one of the standing officials during the famous 438 One-Day International in 2006. That must have been one of his many personal highlights.

“We are sad to lose the services of Lourens Engelbrecht, who is standing down because of ill-health, and we thank him for his contribution to the game.”

The respective panels for the forthcoming season are:

CSA National First Class Panel

Murray Brown

Johan Cloete - ICC International Umpire

Marais Erasmus - ICC Elite Panel Umpire

Babalo Gcuma

Shaun George - ICC International Umpire

Stephen Harris - Promoted from Amateur Panel

Adrian Holdstock - ICC International TV Umpire

Clifford Isaacs - Promoted from Amateur Panel

Bongani Jele

Allahudien Paleker

Gerrie Pienaar

Dennis Smith

Brad White

CSA Amateur Panel

Rudi Birkenstock

Hassen Dawood - New

Gladman Gaseba - New

Ryan Hendricks

Earl Hendrikse

Marlon Jansen

Kevin Lawrence - New

Lester Leendertz

Bryan Mantle

Jack Morton

Bongani Ntshebe - New

Stephen Rex

Jurie Sadler

Faizel Samsoodien

Abdoellah Steenkamp

Irvin Van Kerwel

Phillip Vosloo

Laurance Willemse 

Jeff Wolhuter

National Match Referees Panel

Tiefie Barnes

Devdas Govindjee

Barry Lambson

Shahid Wadvalla

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