The HBL Pakistan Super League 8, which will be contested at four sites from February 13 through March 19, has its match officials, according to the Pakistan Cricket Board, announced today. The matches for the Multan and Karachi legs will take place from February 13 to February 26. From February 26 to March 19, 20 matches will be played in Lahore and Rawalpindi.
Aleem Dar, Richard Illingworth, and Michael Gough, three members of the ICC’s top panel of umpires, will be joined by Ahsan Raza, Asif Yaqoob, Rashid Riaz, Faisal Khan Afridi, Martin Saggers, Ruchira Palliyaguruge, Alex Wharf, and Shozab Raza. Muhammad Asif, Nasir Hussain, and Tariq Rasheed, who will serve as the fourth umpire, will assist them.
For the seventh consecutive year, Roshan Mahanama, a former match referee on the ICC’s elite panel, will head a team of five match referees that also includes Ali Naqvi, Iftikhar Ahmed, Javed Malik, and Muhammad Anees.
Along with Sri Lanka’s Palliyaguruge, Wharf, who played 13 ODIs, and Saggers, who appeared in three Tests for England, will make their HBL PSL debuts. The three are participants in the ICC’s global umpire panel.
While Illingworth will be playing in his sixth HBL PSL, Gough will be making his fourth appearance in the league.
Asif Yaqoob and Martin Saggers will officiate the opening game between the reigning champion Lahore Qalandars and the Multan Sultans at Multan. Shozab Raza and Faisal Afridi will officiate the third and fourth innings. The match referee will be Mohammad Anees.
On February 14 in Karachi, Ali Naqvi will be in charge of the Playing Control Team for the match between the Karachi Kings and the Peshawar Zalmi. The on-field umpires will be Ahsan Raza and Alex Wharf from England, with Tariq Rasheed serving as the third umpire and Ruchira Palliyaguruge as the fourth.
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