Simon Taufel resigns as ICC Umpire Performance & Training Manager

Simon Taufel has decided to step down from the position as the ICC umpires performance and training manager.

Dubai: Celebrated Australian Simon Taufel has decided to step down from the position as the ICC umpires performance and training manager. “The ICC can confirm that Simon Taufel has resigned from his position as ICC Umpire Performance & Training Manager. However, the ICC is in negotiation with Mr Taufel with regards to a possible alternate role in the organisation and an announcement will be made in due course,” an ICC spokesperson was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. Taufel, who is known for being a role-model for upcoming umpires, has won ICC’s best umpire award from 2004 to 2008 and called it a day after the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka in 2012. However, Taufel would be officiating as an umpire in the three-game T20 exhibition tour in the USA in November, which is being promoted by Sachin Tendulkar and Shane Warne. Indian umpires very close to being in the elite panel, says Simon Taufel

India may not have had an umpire in the ICC elite panel for more than a decade but celebrated Australian Simon Taufel feels officials from the country are close to making the exclusive group again thanks to the Cricket Board’s efforts. Taufel, the winner of ICC’s best umpire award from 2004 to 2008 before he called it a day in 2012, is in the country to conduct a match officials’ workshop ahead of the IPL2015 starting April 8, rpeorted PTI.

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“It takes a long time to produce Test level and elite umpires. It takes a lot of investment, support programmes and development, just like it takes to produce top-level cricketers. I cannot tell you why we haven’t had many Indian umpires in the ICC Elite Panel but I know that we are close,” Taufel told, added PTI.

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