ICC Congratulates Ranjan Madugalle On Changing into 1st Fit Referee To Officiate 200 Exams | Cricket Information

The World Cricket Council (ICC) on Sunday congratulated Ranjan Madugalle on changing into the primary Fit Referee to officiate in 200 Check suits. Madugalle, who’s the Leader Referee of the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Fit Referees, reached the landmark within the ongoing first Check between Sri Lanka and the West Indies in Galle. To mark the success, he was once introduced with mementos on behalf of Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) and the ICC by way of SLC Vice President Dr Jayantha Dharmadasa and SLC CEO Ashley de Silva, respectively.

With the exception of officiating in 200 males’s Check suits, 369 males’s ODIs and 125 males’s T20Is, Madugalle has additionally supervised 14 girls’s ODIs and 8 girls’s T20Is.

“Ranjan has been an amazing asset through the years and an important supply of inspiration for others. We now have benefitted from his enjoy and paintings ethic, as any individual you’ll be able to flip to for steerage,” Adrian Griffith, ICC Senior Supervisor – Umpires and Referees stated in an ICC free up.

“On behalf of the ICC, I want to thank Ranjan for his years of carrier to the sport and congratulate him on a lovely profession. We are hoping to proceed profiting from his experience within the future years,” he added.

It is industry as same old for Ranjan Madugalle

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— ICC (@ICC) November 21, 2021

Madugalle loved a decade-long world profession for Sri Lanka as a cricketer, during which he performed each and every of his nation’s first 18 Check Fits and enthralled spectators together with his fashionable stroke-play. He captained Sri Lanka in his ultimate two Exams.

“It’s an honour and a privilege to be officiating in my 2 hundredth Check fit, for it isn’t a milestone I had by no means imagined I might achieve. While it has taken a very long time, it kind of feels simply the opposite day that I had taken in this position, as a result of I’ve loved each and every little bit of the adventure,” stated Madugalle.

“That is clearly what goals are manufactured from and I proceed to be passionately concerned with the sport and in my position whilst liaising with my colleagues from across the world.

“The fervour clearly comes from my time as a participant and it’s my excellent fortune to have remained attached so carefully with the sport,” he added.

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Madugalle was once appointed an ICC Fit Referee in 1993. His first project was once the Check between Pakistan and New Zealand in Karachi that December with a primary ODI in a while afterwards.

A typical in any respect primary ICC tournaments, he has served as ICC Fit Referee for 4 ICC Males’s Cricket Global Cup Finals (1999, 2003, 2015 and 2019), 3 ICC Champions Trophy Finals (2004, 2006 and 2013) and 4 ICC Males’s T20 Global Cup Finals (2007, 2010, 2016 and 2021).