ICC World Cup 2023 Match Officials: The Full List Of Umpires and Referees Selected For League Phase

ICC on Friday (September 8) announced the 20 match officials - 16 umpires and 4 match referees - for the League Round of the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2023, which is set to take place from October 5 to November 12 in India.

Sixteen umpires that will officiate the 13th edition of the tournament, include all 12 of the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires and four members of the ICC Emerging Umpire Panel. Here is a look at the list of umpires for the ICC World Cup 2023 league phase:

ICC World Cup 2023 Umpires List

Upmire Name	Nationality	Panel
Kumar Dharmasena	Sri Lanka	Elite
Marais Erasmus	South Africa	Elite
Chris Gaffaney	New Zealand	Elite
Michael Gough	England	Elite
Richard Illingworth	England	Elite
Richard Kettleborough	England	Elite
Nitin Menon	India	Elite
Ahsan Raza	Pakistan	Elite
Rod Tucker	Australia	Elite
Paul Reiffel	Australia	Elite
Adrian Holdstock	South Africa	Elite
Joel Wilson	West Indies	Elite
Chris Brown	New Zealand	Emerging
Sharfuddoula Ibne Shaid	Bangladesh	Emerging
Alex Wharf	England	Emerging
Paul Wilson	Australia	Emerging

The experienced elite panel list of umpires includes three of the four umpires who were appointed for the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 final at Lord's - Dharmasena, Erasmus and Tucker - with only Aleem Dar missing, who stepped down from the Elite Panel in March of this year.

India's Nitin Menon and Pakistan's Ahsan Raza, part of elite panel, are also among the 16 umpires named to officiate the matches during the league phase of the ODI World Cup 2023.

Meanwhile, the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Match Referees that will be represented at the event are a quartet of former international cricketers, namely, Jeff Crowe (New Zealand), Andy Pycroft (Zimbabwe), Richie Richardson (West Indies) and Javagal Srinath (India).

Srinath will take charge of the tournament opener between the last event's finalists, England and New Zealand on 5 October in Ahmedabad. Menon and Dharmasena will be the standing umpires, with Paul Wilson as TV umpire and Saikat taking on fourth umpire duties.

The officials have been named for the entirety of the League phase, with the selections for the semi-finals and final of the tournament to be named in due course.