Date:23/04/2006 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2006/04/23/stories/2006042305351700.htm

Sport - Cricket

Jeff Crowe is match referee

New Delhi: Former New Zealand captain Jeff Crowe has been named Match Referee for India's tour of West Indies, which includes four Tests and five One-Day Internationals.

Pakistan's Asad Rauf would be the neutral umpire for the first three matches of the ODI series, while Australian Simon Taufel would take over for the last two one-dayers, the BCCI secretary, Niranjan Shah, said in a statement.

Rauf and Taufel will stand together in the first two Tests to be played in Antigua and St. Lucia. The South African pair of Rudi Koertzen and Brian Jerling would officiate in the next two matches at St. Kitts and Jamaica. — PTI