LAHORE, Aug 20: Thirty one cricket umpires from Punjab and NWFP attended the two-day refresher course which concluded at the Gaddafi Stadium Tuesday.

National Umpiring Council chairman Mahboob Shah assisted by Khizar Hayat and Said Shah supervised the course. A similar course for the Sindh and Balochistan’s umpires was conducted at the National Stadium, Karachi on Aug 16-17 and attended by 23 umpires.

Meanwhile, the oral test of five international umpires will be held here on Aug 21. The umpires are Nadeem Ghouri, Asad Rauf, Aleem Dar, Nazir Junior and Rana Sohail. Mahboob Shah and Khizer Hayat will supervise the oral test.

The oral test is essential for these umpires before conducting the international matches. But these umpires in the past had been supervising matches which was against the rules of the ICC.

Those who attended the refresher course are:

Ihteshamul Haq, Zafar Iqbal Pasha, Nazir Junior, Waqar Moughal, Sajjad Asghar, Tariq Cheema, Ifitkhar Ahmad Malik, Rasheed Bhatti, Talat Farooq, Ahmad Shahab, Iqbal Butt, Akmal Hayat, Javed Ashraf, Pervez Azhar, Mohammad Jamil Kamran, Ijaz Ahmad, Dr Khurram Aziz, Masood A Khan, Qamar Jabbar, Kukab Butt, Asad Rauf, Nadeem Ghouri, Aftab Husain Gillani, Javed Iqbal, Mohammad Amin Abbas, Mian Mohammad Aslam, Naushad Khan, Rana Sohail Manzoor, Mehboob Shah, Haji Bashir, Mahboob.