{"id":28066,"date":"2025-10-04T07:34:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=28066"},"modified":"2025-10-04T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:34:34","slug":"pcb-announces-match-officials-for-pakistan-vs-south-africa-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/?p=28066","title":{"rendered":"PCB announces match officials for Pakistan vs South Africa series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced match officials for Pakistan-South Africa series. According to report, Ranjan Madugalle has been appointed match referee for Pak-South Africa Test series. The first Test will be played from October 12 to 16 at Gaddafi Stadium Lahore. Rodney Tucker and Christopher Brown will be the on-field umpires for the first Test. The second Test will be played from October 20 to 24 at Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium. Christopher Brown and Saeqat Sharafudullah will be the on-field umpires. Asif Yaqoob and Rashid Riaz will be the on-field umpires in the first and second T20 matches while Rashid Riaz and Faisal Afridi will be the on-field umpires in the third T20 match. Saeqat Sharafudullah and Asif Yaqoob will be the on-field umpires in the first ODI. Alex Wharf and Ahsan Raza will be the on-field umpires in the second ODI match. In the third ODI, Saeqat Sharafudullah and Faisal Afridi appointed on-field umpires. All three ODI matches of the series will be played at Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced match officials for Pakistan-South Africa series. According to report, Ranjan Madugalle has been appointed match referee for Pak-South Africa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28067,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diplomacypakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}