Initially seven umpires were selected for the interview — Karachi duo of Khalid Mehmood and Riazuddin and Lahore’s Ghaffar Kazmi, Riazuddin, Ahmed Shahab, Anees Siddiqi, Akram Raza and Shozab Raza.
Akram Raza was expelled due to being arrest for alleged involvement in betting on lucrative Indian Premier League (IPL). The interview was conducted by PCB’s Chief Operating Officer (COO) Subhan Ahmed and Director Cricket Operations (International) Zakir Khan in two phases.
In the first phase remaining six umpires were interviewed but according to a well-placed source some umpires were not even questioned. The interviewers never told all the candidates that they will be short-listed.
Riazuddin, who had more experience then accumulated exposure of rest of the candidates, was excluded alongside another seasoned campaigner Khalid Mehmood from the final interview.
In addition, another top-notch umpire Ahmed Shahab was left out. Zameer Haider`s performances have been very poor of late with Quaid-e-Azam Trophy`s day-night final the prime example of his calibre.
Shozab Raza`s promotion has come as a shock for most of the candidates who claim that they were far better than Raza but yet they were overlooked. “The PCB has continued its trend of bestowing their favourite people and Raza`s promotion is a clear evidence of that,” one of the left out candidates told `Our Sources` on Monday.
“Hardly anyone in the umpiring field will deny that he did not deserve to be at that post.”The concerned authorities were tried to be contacted but to no avail.
According to the statement released by the PCB Raza was promoted because of his consistent performances at the Domestic level. He achieved second position in Level-I Umpiring course held at Malaysia in 2007.
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