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The Border-Gavaskar series between India and Australia starts from Friday. The first match of this 5-match series is to be played at Optus Stadium in Perth. ICC has announced the umpires for this match. The name of England’s Richard Kettleborough is also included in these umpires, who is considered an unlucky umpire for India.
These umpires will be in Perth
England’s Richard Kettleborough and New Zealand’s Chris Gaffney will take over the responsibility of on-field umpiring in the first Test. Richard Illingworth of England has been made the third umpire. Australia’s Sam Nogaski will play the role of the fourth umpire. No Indian was included in the first test. Of the four umpires selected for the Perth Test, three have a lot of experience.
Kettleborough has umpired in 120 Test matches so far. Apart from this, he is also involved in 164 ODI and 59 T20 International matches. He has been a part of the ICC elite panel for a long time. Gaffney will take over the responsibility of umpiring on the field with him. He has umpired in 90 test matches so far. He also has 132 ODI and 67 T20 International matches to his name. Third umpire Illingworth has so far umpired in 104 Test, 163 ODI and 51 T20 International matches. Sam Nogaski has not umpired in a single Test yet. However, he has appeared in 21 ODI and 34 T20 Internationals.
Who will do the commentary in Perth Test?
The commentary panel for the first Test between India and Australia was also announced. Under this, Ravi Shastri, Wasim Akram, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sunil Gavaskar, Sanjay Manjrekar, Jatin Sapru and Deep Dasgupta will do commentary in Hindi. Mark Nicholls, Matthew Hayden, Ravi Shastri, Sunil Gavaskar, Wasim Akram, Murali Vijay and Russell Arnold will narrate the match in English. This time the Australia series will be telecast on Star Sports.