LAHORE, June 13: Pakistan Cricket Board has formed a panel of ex-Test and One-day International umpires to monitor the umpiring in domestic matches. “The panel includes Khizer Hayat, Javed Akhtar, Azhar Hussain, Mahboob Shah, Feroz Butt and Said Shah. Being independent, the panel will be in a position to monitor the standards of umpiring objectively and judiciously,” a PCB spokesman said on Monday.

He said the PCB observed that the current process of evaluating umpires’ performance needs to be improved.

In the past, the captain’s report on umpires provided an unsatisfactory base for evaluation of umpires’ performance as the umpires usually received highest marks from the winning captain and lowest from the losing captain.

“In addition, match referees would also be required to give their evaluation of the quality of umpiring,” he added.—APP