Taken aback by the notion of a man officiating a women's match, Afia asked Adnan Rashid the reason behind him taking the role to which she was informed that it was due to the lack of female
umpires in the circuit.
Afia is now among the senior women
umpires in the country.
'The remaining four
umpires namely Nuzhat Sultana, Riffat Mustafa, Samera Aftab and Saleema Imtiaz, will attend workshops in Karachi and Rawalpindi from Aug 29-31 and Sept 3-5, respectively during the ongoing PCB panel
umpires and match referees annual workshop,' a PCB press release stated.
In the Lahore workshop, the
umpires were lectured by top-flight
umpires, including Aleem Dar from the Elite Panel of ICC
Umpires, and Ahsan Raza and Asif Yaqoob, both members of International Panel of ICC
Umpires, conducting the workshop.
"It's a risk but you have to
umpire as many games as you can, show the commitment, but in the long term I think it's the best thing."
Pollard was irked with the
umpire's decision to not adjudge a delivery by Dwayne Bravo as wide.
I faced ups and downs through these 19 years,' said Aleem while adding that 'Being an
umpire sometimes you take right decisions and sometimes wrong but a good
umpire is the one who tries to not make many mistakes,'
I got my first stint as an
umpire in 2012 during the Sub-Junior Nationals in Rohtak that year and continuously got domestic opportunities thereafter," the 32-year-old said.
Kumar Dharmasena and Shozab Raza (on-field
umpires), Michael Gough (third
umpire), Rashid Riaz (fourth
umpire); Jeff Crowe (match referee)
During a typical season across the county more than 8,500
umpire appointments need to be made by the various league and cup secretaries.
Again, the
umpire who was better placed should have made the decision when the referee came in to discuss the incident.