Sri Lanka: Eleven qualify as cricket umpires (23 December 1998)
Eleven candidates from the Central Province obtained over 75 per cent and qualified to become cricket umpires of the Kandy Regional Cricket Board II in the recruitment examination conducted by the Umpires Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket
23-Dec-1998
23 December 1998
Sri Lanka: Eleven qualify as cricket umpires
By S M Jiffrey Abdeen
Eleven candidates from the Central Province obtained over 75 per cent
and qualified to become cricket umpires of the Kandy Regional Cricket
Board II in the recruitment examination conducted by the Umpires
Committee of the Board of Control for Cricket in Sri Lanka and held
at the Asgiriya Pavilion recently.
This three-day umpiring course and the examination were conducted by
the Director of Umpiring of the BCCSL and International cricket
umpire K. T. Francis and assisted by Udaya Wickremasinghe, B. C.
Cooray, F. R. De Mel.
S. A. I. Deepthi Bandara topped the list closely followed by A. M. J.
S. Wijetunga. The others who obtained pass marks were U. S.
Kodituwakku, D. M. A. N. Dissanayake, S. A. D. K. Bandara, D. M. M.
M. A. D. Dissanayake, M. N. M. Nusry, J. P. A. Jagath Keerthi, W. H.
M. S. P. Wijekoon, U. I. Hettiarachchi and G. Negaseelan. These
candidates will now have to undergo their medical tests before they
are absorbed into the Regional panel.
The seminar and examination were conducted both in Sinhala and
English by the examiners in order to assist the candidates over their
language problem. A total of 35 sat the examination and only 11 were
successful.
Regional Secretary, Janaka Pathirana, said that once these umpires
are enrolled, they will be assigned for the tournament matches
conducted by the Cricket Board and also their services will be
available for schools and other club matches which will help to
overcome the shortage of cricket umpires and also help to lift the
overall standard of umpiring.
Source :: Daily News (https://www.lanka.net)