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| NEWS Srinath to make World Cup debut as match referee 02nd Mar 2007 23.55 IST By Agencies Former Indian speedster Javagal Srinath will make his World Cup debut as match referee when he officiates in a Group stage match between Australia and Scotland in St Kitts and Nevis on March 14. Srinath was today named in the seven-member match referee panel announced by the ICC along with a list of 16 umpires to officiate in the group stage of the showpiece event in the West Indies.
Group I comprises Australia, the Netherlands, Scotland and South Africa. Srinath who played 229 ODIs between 1991 and 2003, made his debut as ODI match referee in the match between New Zealand and Sri Lanka at Napier on December 28 last year and has since then stood in 10 ODIs, the last being on January 24 this year between Kenya and Canada in Mombasa. He had also stood in four Tests between July (Sri Lanka VS South Africa at Colombo) and December last year (New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Wellington). Two-time Word Cup winning captain Clive Lloyd was the only omission from the ei Also View | LIVE CRICKET COVERAGE NEWS ~ Gilchrist has no plans to retire after World Cup ~ Ganguly's new batting approach may cost him sixer record ~ India 'squash the Orange' in World Cup warm-up game ~ Symonds gets a new hairdo for World Cup ~ Dhoni readies himself for stand-up act at World Cup (more in NEWS) FACE-TO-FACE ~ 500-mark a possibility in World Cup: Hayden ~ Minnows add charm to World Cup: Dravid (more in FACE-TO-FACE) COLUMNS ~ Will Sri Lanka replicate 1996 World Cup success? (more in COLUMNS) OFF-THE-FIELD ~ Ganguly again the darling of corporate world ~ Ganguly roped in as brand ambassador of Puma (more in OFF-THE-FIELD) PLAYERS Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble (more PLAYERS) TEAMS India, South Africa, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, West Indies, Zimbabwe, England, New Zealand, Bangladesh, Kenya, Holland | 
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