15 Sep 2022 By Know Muslim
Previous ICC umpire Asad Rauf died in Lahore, 24NewsHD TV channel gave an reported of Wednesday.
His sibling Tahir affirmed the passing of Asad Rauf.
Asad Rauf was returning home subsequent to shutting his shop when he had heart failure, leaving him dead, he said.
Asad Rauf was an individual from the ICC Elite Umpire Panel from 2006 to 2013. He played in Pakistani homegrown cricket somewhere in the range of 1977 and 1991.
He turned into a five star umpire in 1998 and the Pakistan Cricket Board delegated him in 2000. Rauf was remembered for the International Panel of Umpires in 2004 and after a year the ICC named him to his most memorable test match. He was elevated to the Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in 2006. He umpired in 47 Tests, 98 ODIs and 23 Twenty20s.
PCB Chairman Ramiz Raja expressed: "Disheartened to find out about passing of Asad Rauf. In addition to the fact that he was a decent umpire had a mischievous funny bone. He generally put a grin all over and will keep on doing so at whatever point I contemplate him. Numerous feelings for his family for their misfortune."
Asad Rauf, the previous ICC first class board umpire from Pakistan, has kicked the bucket following a heart failure in Lahore. Rauf was 66 years of age. He administered in 64 Tests (49 as on-field umpire and 15 as TV umpire), 139 ODIs and 28 T20Is. Rauf was one of Pakistan's most unmistakable umpires during the 2000s, having been raised to the ICC's first class board in 2006. He had directed in his most memorable Test the earlier year, and been on the ODI board starting around 2004, having remained in his most memorable ODI in 2000.
He was a famous figure on the circuit who, close by Aleem Dar, did his piece in working on the standing of Pakistani umpires before the impartial umpires time.
Be that as it may, his vocation came to an unexpected end in 2013 when he was named as a "needed denounced" by Mumbai police in their examination concerning the IPL spot-fixing outrage, where Rauf had been umpiring. Rauf left India before the finish of that IPL season and yet was removed from the Champions Trophy that followed by the ICC and sometime thereafter would be dropped from the ICC's tip top board, however the ICC demanded it wasn't on the grounds that his name had come up in the examinations.
Rauf fought his guiltlessness all through and said he would be glad to help out the ACSU. In 2016, the BCCI restricted Rauf for a very long time on four charges of debasement and wrongdoing.
Rauf had a significant top notch vocation as a center request hitter before he went to umpiring, showing up for National Bank and Railways, averaging 28.76 from 71 five star matches.