{"id":75761,"date":"2025-05-27T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=75761"},"modified":"2025-05-27T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T12:26:24","slug":"pcb-unveils-match-officials-for-pakistan-vs-bangladesh-t20i-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pcb-unveils-match-officials-for-pakistan-vs-bangladesh-t20i-series\/","title":{"rendered":"PCB unveils match officials for Pakistan vs Bangladesh T20I series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/sports\/pakistan-mulling-legal-action-against-england-new-zealand-cricket-boards\/\">Pakistan Cricket Board<\/a> has announced that Sri Lankan Ranjan Madugalle, a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, will lead the playing control teams for the three-match T20I series between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Madugalle, who has also officiated the most international cricket matches (804) across three formats as a match referee, also led the control teams in seven matches of the recently concluded HBL PSL X.<\/p>\n<p>For the first T20I, Asif Yaqoob and Rashid Riaz \u2013 both part of the PCB International Panel of Umpires \u2013 will be the on-field umpires. ICC Elite Panel of Umpires member Ahsan Raza will be the third umpire while ICC International Panel Umpire Faisal Khan Afridi will officiate as the fourth umpire.<\/p>\n<p>Rashid Riaz will take the field alongside Faisal Khan Afridi in the second T20I while Ahsan Raza will be the third umpire. Asif Yaqoob will be the fourth umpire.<\/p>\n<p>For the third T20I, Ahsan Raza will be the on-field umpire alongside Asif Yaqoob, while Faisal Khan Afridi will be the third umpire. Rashid Riaz will act as the fourth umpire in the final T20I of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board has announced that Sri Lankan Ranjan Madugalle, a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees, will lead the playing control teams for the three-match T20I series between Pakistan and Bangladesh in Lahore. Madugalle, who has also officiated the most international cricket matches (804) across three formats as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4101,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[474,459,364],"class_list":["post-75761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-bangladesh","tag-pakistan-cricket-board","tag-pcb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75763,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75761\/revisions\/75763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}