The Pakistan Cricket Board Announces Match Officials For HBL PSL 8
Zeeshan Mehtab Published February 07, 2023 | 06:24 PM
The Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the match officials for the HBL Pakistan Super League 8, which will be played across four venues from 13 February to 19 March
LAHORE, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 7th Feb, 2023 ):The Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday announced the match officials for the HBL Pakistan Super League 8, which will be played across four venues from 13 February to 19 March.
The Multan and Karachi-leg matches will be held from 13-26 February, before action shifts to Lahore and Rawalpindi where 20 matches will be played from 26 February to 19 March.
Three members of the ICC's elite panel of umpires � Aleem Dar, Richard Illingworth and Michael Gough � will be accompanied by Ahsan Raza, Asif Yaqoob, Rashid Riaz, Faisal Khan Afridi, Martin Saggers, Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Alex Wharf and Shozab Raza. They will be supported by Muhammad Asif, Nasir Hussain and Tariq Rasheed, who will be involved in fourth umpire's role.
Roshan Mahanama, former member of the ICC's elite panel of match referees, will return for the eighth successive year and will lead a team of five match referees with other members being Ali Naqvi, Iftikhar Ahmed, Javed Malik and Muhammad Anees.
Wharf, who played 13 ODIs for England, and Saggers, who featured in three Tests for England, will make their HBL PSL debuts along with Sri Lanka's Palliyaguruge. The three are members of the ICC's international panel of umpires.
For Gough, it will be his fourth appearance in HBL PSL, while it will be Illingworth's sixth HBL PSL.
The opening match between defending champions Lahore Qalandars and Multan Sultans in Multan will be umpired by Asif Yaqoob and Martin Saggers, while Faisal Afridi will be the third umpire and Shozab Raza as fourth umpire. Muhammad Anees will be the match referee.
Ali Naqvi will lead the Playing Control Team for the Karachi Kings versus Peshawar Zalmi match in Karachi on 14 February.
Ahsan Raza and England's Alex Wharf will be the on-field umpires, Ruchira Palliyaguruge third umpire and Tariq Rasheed fourth umpire.
Meanwhile, the PCB has also confirmed a panel of 15 commentators and two presenters for the 34-match tournament.
Alan Wilkins, Bazid Khan, Danny Morrison, Daren Ganga, Dominic Cork, Mark Butcher, Nick Knight, Sana Mir, Sikandar Bakht, Simon Doull, Urooj Mumtaz, Vernon Philander and Waqar Younis will commentate in English, while Marina Iqbal and Tariq Saeed will be Urdu commentators. Erin Holland and Zainab Abbas will be the presenters.
For the HBL PSL 8, two full production kits and crews will be operational simultaneously. This will only be the second time since HBL PSL 5 and the first time in the post-Covid era.
The High-Definition broadcast coverage will include 30 cameras, which along with Spidercams and buggy cams, will embellish the viewing experience of the fans within and outside Pakistan. HawkEye and UltraEdge will be part of the Decision Review System (DRS) Technology.
Cricket fans in Pakistan will be able to watch the HBL PSL 8 in high-definition on A Sports, PTV Sports and TEN Sports on linear TV; while livestreaming will be available on Daraz App, tapmadTV and Tamasha.
Viewers around the world can watch the action live on Fox Sports (Australia), Sony (South Asia outside Pakistan), Willow TV (North America), Flow Sports (Caribbean), Sky Sports (United Kingdom), Sky Sport (New Zealand), Super Sport (sub-Saharan Africa) and, Etisalat and STARZPLAY (Mena).
In non-broadcast territories, the HBL PSL 8 will be available at the HBL PSL's official YouTube and Facebook channels.
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