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International Umpires

Meet Ireland's international umpires panel.

A view of bails being placed on the stumps 15/5/2018

The Panel...

Every year Cricket Ireland appoints four cricket umpires to the International Umpire Panel. the umpires are engaged on full-time season contracts.

The four umpires in 2023 are:

Roly Black
First appointed: 2018

Roly has been umpiring since 2006 - he stood as an on-field umpire in the Final of the 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He stood in his first T20I and ODI in 2016.

Mark Hawthorne
First appointed: 2018

Mark is  the most-experience of the Pnel, havng stood in his first ODI in 2011 and his first T20I in 2012. In February 2019, he was selected as part of an umpire exchange programme with Cricket West Indies to stand in matches in the Caribbean.

Jareth McCready
First appointed: 2022

Jarerh was elevated to the Panel (replacing Alan Neill) in  February 2022. He stood in his first T20I in 2022.

Want to know more?

Click here to find out more about umpiring in Ireland.

ICC Master Educator course

Irish umpire Alan Neill was proudly part of the first cohort of Master Educators for umpiring - a course started by the ICC to raise standards and proliferate knowledge within the global game. Watch this great video about the course.

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