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This compilation includes the names of cricket umpires who have presided over at least one men's One Day International (ODI) game. As of October 2022, the total count of umpires who have officiated in ODI matches is 418. The inaugural ODI game was held on January 5, 1971, at Melbourne Cricket Ground between Australia and England, with Tom Brooks and Lou Rowan serving as umpires. In April 2019, Claire Polosak made history as the first woman to officiate as an on-field umpire in a men's ODI match during the 2019 ICC World Cricket League Division Two tournament's final. Three umpires, namely Rudi Koertzen from South Africa, Billy Bowden from New Zealand, and Aleem Dar from Pakistan, have umpired in 200 or more ODI matches.

Aleem Dar of Pakistan exceeded South African Rudi Koertzen's record for officiating in the most ODI matches by serving as an on-field umpire in his 210th ODI match on November 1, 2020, during the second ODI between Pakistan and Zimbabwe.

Below is the list top 20 cricket umpires this also include the list of umpires who participated in the ODI cricket international matches.


Umpire

Country

ODIs

From

To

Aleem Dar

Pakistan

219

2000

2022

Rudi Koertzen

SouthAfrica

209

1992

2010

Billy Bowden

NewZealand

200

1995

2016

Steve Bucknor

WestIndies

181

1989

2009

Daryl Harper

Australia

174

1994

2011

Simon Taufel

Australia

174

1999

2012

David Shepherd

England

172

1983

2005

Russell Tiffin

Zimbabwe

154

1992

2018

Ian Gould

England

140

2006

2019

Darrell Hair

Australia

139

1991

2008

Steve Davis

Australia

137

1992

2015

Nigel Llong

England

130

2006

2020

Asoka de Silva

SriLanka

122

1999

2012

Kumar Dharmasena

SriLanka

118

2009

2022

Billy Doctrove

WestIndies

112

1998

2012

Marais Erasmus

SouthAfrica

108

2007

2022

Dave Orchard

SouthAfrica

107

1994

2003

Steve Dunne

NewZealand

100

1989

2002

Asad Rauf

Pakistan

98

2000

2013

Bruce Oxenford

Australia

97

2008

2020

Tony Hill

NewZealand

96

1998

2013

Richard Kettleborough

England

95

2009

2022

Brian Jerling

SouthAfrica

94

2000

2011

Ian Robinson

Zimbabwe

90

1992

2004

Steve Randell

Australia

88

1984

1998

Rod Tucker

Australia

85

2009

2020

Tony Crafter

Australia

84

1979

1992

Ruchira Palliyaguruge

SriLanka

84

2011

2022

Joel Wilson

WestIndies

81

2011

2022

Richard Illingworth

England

77

2010

2022

Chris Gaffaney

NewZealand

74

2010

2022

Paul Reiffel

Australia

74

2009

2022

Mark Benson

England

72

2004

2009

Doug Cowie

NewZealand

71

1992

2005

Dickie Bird

England

69

1973

1995

Peter McConnell

Australia

68

1983

1992

Ian Howell

SouthAfrica

66

2000

2009

Michael Gough

England

65

2013

2021

Peter Parker

Australia

65

1993

2008

Cyril Mitchley

SouthAfrica

61

1992

2000

Johan Cloete

SouthAfrica

60

2009

2016

K. T. Francis

SriLanka

56

1982

1999

Dick French

Australia

56

1979

1988

Shaun George

SouthAfrica

56

2011

2021

Khizer Hayat

Pakistan

55

1978

1996

Enamul Haque

Bangladesh

54

2006

2015

Srinivasaraghavan Venkataraghavan

India

52

1993

2003

Tyron Wijewardene

SriLanka

52

1999

2013

Kevan Barbour

Zimbabwe

51

1998

2009

Amiesh Saheba

India

51

2000

2011

Gregory Brathwaite

WestIndies

49

2011

2022

Simon Fry

Australia

49

2011

2018

Mel Johnson

Australia

49

1979

1988

B. C. Cooray

SriLanka

48

1985

2001

Sundaram Ravi

India

48

2011

2019

Sharfuddoula

Bangladesh

48

2010

2021

Ranmore Martinesz

SriLanka

46

2010

2018

Eddie Nicholls

WestIndies

46

1995

2005

Brian Aldridge

NewZealand

45

1986

1995

Peter Manuel

SriLanka

45

1992

2004

Nadeem Ghauri

Pakistan

43

2000

2010

V. K. Ramaswamy

India

43

1983

2002

Chettithody Shamshuddin

India

43

2013

2020

Javed Akhtar

Pakistan

40

1976

1999

Ahsan Raza

Pakistan

40

2010

2022

Nadir Shah

Bangladesh

40

2006

2011

Terry Prue

Australia

39

1988

1999

Gary Baxter

NewZealand

38

2005

2014

Adrian Holdstock

SouthAfrica

38

2013

2022

Arani Jayaprakash

India

38

1993

2006

Lloyd Barker

WestIndies

37

1984

1997

Barry Lambson

SouthAfrica

35

1992

2001

Ian Ramage

Scotland

35

2008

2017

Krishna Hariharan

India

34

1997

2006

Buddhi Pradhan

Nepal

34

2006

2022

Peter Willey

England

34

1996

2003

David Constant

England

33

1972

2001

Mark Hawthorne

Ireland

33

2011

2021

Karl Liebenberg

SouthAfrica

33

1992

1996

Mahboob Shah

Pakistan

32

1976

1996

Paul Wilson

Australia

32

2014

2020

Wilf Diedricks

SouthAfrica

31

1992

2001

Dave Quested

NewZealand

31

1992

2002

George Sharp

England

31

1996

2001

S. K. Bansal

India

30

1990

2000

Nitin Menon

India

30

2017

2022

Ahmed Shah Pakteen

Afghanistan

30

2017

2022

Steve Woodward

NewZealand

30

1982

1992

Saleem Badar

Pakistan

29

1988

2002

Mervyn Kitchen

England

28

1983

2001

Robin Bailhache

Australia

27

1975

1989

Norman Malcolm

WestIndies

27

2008

2011

Clyde Cumberbatch

WestIndies

26

1984

1997

Roger Dill

Bermuda

25

2006

2008

Christopher King

NewZealand

25

1992

1999

Vineet Kulkarni

India

25

2013

2016

Bruce Martin

Australia

25

1981

1987

Shavir Tarapore

India

25

1999

2012

David Archer

WestIndies

24

1981

1991

Rob Bailey

England

24

2011

2021

Ram Babu Gupta

India

24

1985

1990

Shozab Raza

Pakistan

24

2012

2019

Raveendra Wimalasiri

SriLanka

24

2013

2022

Len King

Australia

23

1988

1993

Jeremiah Matibiri

Zimbabwe

23

2013

2018

Barrie Meyer

England

23

1977

1993

Ken Palmer

England

23

1977

2001

P. W. Vidanagamage

SriLanka

23

1982

1991

Evan Watkin

NewZealand

23

1995

2010

Akbar Ali

UnitedArabEmirates

22

2017

2022

Anil Chaudhary

India

22

2013

2022

Neil Mallender

England

22

2001

2003

Subhash Modi

Kenya

22

2001

2010

Peter Nero

WestIndies

22

2011

2014

Shakoor Rana

Pakistan

22

1977

1996

Piloo Reporter

India

22

1984

1994

Clyde Duncan

WestIndies

21

1988

2010

Ray Isherwood

Australia

21

1979

1986

Gamini Silva

SriLanka

21

1999

2009

Roland Black

Ireland

20

2016

2022

John Hampshire

England

20

1989

2001

Col Timmins

Australia

20

1988

1995

Chris Brown

NewZealand

19

2016

2022

John Holder

England

19

1988

2001

Suresh Shastri

India

19

1993

2007

Niels Bagh

Denmark

18

2008

2011

Paul Baldwin

England

18

2006

2009

Dooland Buultjens

SriLanka

18

1983

1992

Wayne Knights

NewZealand

18

2016

2022

Jeremy Lloyds

England

18

2000

2006

Mohammad Aslam

Pakistan

18

1982

2002

Tim Robinson

England

18

2013

2021

Ric Evans

Australia

17

1988

1994

Mahbubur Rahman

Bangladesh

17

2002

2006

Leslie Reifer

WestIndies

17

2017

2022

Langton Rusere

Zimbabwe

17

2015

2022

A. F. M. Akhtaruddin

Bangladesh

16

2001

2006

Danzel Becker

SouthAfrica

16

1997

2001

Owen Chirombe

Zimbabwe

16

2010

2014

Shakeel Khan

Pakistan

16

1982

1996

Nigel Plews

England

16

1986

1996

Shiju Sam

UnitedArabEmirates

16

2019

2022

Graeme Evans

Zimbabwe

15

1997

2001

Fred Goodall

NewZealand

15

1973

1988

Zameer Haider

Pakistan

15

2006

2012

Basil Morgan

WestIndies

15

1996

2001

Bongani Jele

SouthAfrica

14

2016

2022

Tony McQuillan

Australia

14

1993

1999

T. M. Samarasinghe

SriLanka

14

1992

1998

Alan Whitehead

England

14

1979

2001

Rex Whitehead

Australia

14

1979

1983

Subrata Banerjee

India

13

1983

1998

David Evans

England

13

1979

1985

Amanullah Khan

Pakistan

13

1980

1993

Rodger McHarg

NewZealand

13

1986

1992

Nandasena Pathirana

SriLanka

13

1993

2001

R. V. Ramani

India

13

1983

1993

Udaya Wickramasinghe

SriLanka

13

1991

1998

Rahul Asher

Oman

12

2020

2021

Lloyd Budd

England

12

1974

1979

Nigel Duguid

WestIndies

12

2017

2022

Sarika Prasad

Singapore

12

2012

2018

Masudur Rahman

Bangladesh

12

2018

2022

Riazuddin

Pakistan

12

1990

2000

Ahmed Esat

Zimbabwe

11

1995

2002

Herbi Felsinger

SriLanka

11

1982

1986

Quintin Goosen

Zimbabwe

11

1994

2001

Lyndon Hannibal

SriLanka

11

2018

2022

Mohammad Nazir

Pakistan

11

1994

2000

Raman Sharma

India

11

1993

1997

Alex Wharf

England

11

2018

2022

Sudhir Asnani

India

10

1998

2013

Ross Emerson

Australia

10

1996

1999

Allan Haggo

Scotland

10

2016

2022

Shahul Hameed

Indonesia

10

2006

2007

Kantilal Kanjee

Zimbabwe

10

1992

1994

Alan Neill

Ireland

10

2016

2021

K. Parthasarathy

India

10

1993

2002

S. K. Sharma

India

10

1993

2002

Athar Zaidi

Pakistan

10

1984

1999

Iftikhar Ali

UnitedArabEmirates

9

2017

2019

Bill Alley

England

9

1974

1981

Vinod Babu

Oman

9

2020

2022

Sameer Bandekar

UnitedStates

9

2002

2022

S. Choudhary

India

9

1993

1999

Lalith Jayasundara

SriLanka

9

1999

2001

Padmakar Pandit

India

9

1983

1988

Anisur Rahman

Bangladesh

9

2014

2018

Bismillah Jan Shinwari

Afghanistan

9

2018

2022

Ivaturi Shivram

India

9

1994

2002

Derek Walker

NewZealand

9

2014

2016

Dara Dotiwalla

India

8

1982

1988

Alex Dowdalls

Scotland

8

2017

2019

John Langridge

England

8

1975

1979

Jermaine Lindo

UnitedStates

8

2019

2022

Mick Martell

Australia

8

2014

2017

George Morris

NewZealand

8

1984

1988

Don Oslear

England

8

1980

1984

Roy Palmer

England

8

1983

1995

Harikrishna Pillai

Oman

8

2020

2021

Selliah Ponnadurai

SriLanka

8

1983

1993

Subroto Porel

India

8

1994

2002

Rashid Riaz

Pakistan

8

2019

2022

Ian Thomas

Australia

8

1990

1994

Don Weser

Australia

8

1979

1981

Ignatius Anandappa

SriLanka

7

1992

1998

Khalid Aziz

Pakistan

7

1977

1993

Ahmed Shah Durrani

Afghanistan

7

2017

2022

Arthur Fagg

England

7

1972

1976

Sunit Ghosh

India

7

1987

1989

Shaun Haig

NewZealand

7

2018

2022

Vijaya Mallela

UnitedStates

7

2019

2022

David McLean

Scotland

7

2019

2022

Sadique Mohammed

WestIndies

7

1981

1986

C. K. Nandan

India

7

2016

2019

Paul Reynolds

Ireland

7

2018

2022

John Ward

Australia

7

2014

2016

Rizwan Akram

Netherlands

6

2018

2022

Tariq Ata

Pakistan

6

1982

1988

Jack Birkenshaw

England

6

1983

1988

Vijay Chopra

India

6

1996

2002

Peter Cronin

Australia

6

1979

1981

Jeff Fenwick

Zimbabwe

6

2000

2001

Antonio Gaynor

WestIndies

6

1986

1986

Peter Hartley

England

6

2007

2009

Mick Harvey

Australia

6

1979

1980

Glenroy T. Johnson

WestIndies

6

1989

2001

Ray Julian

England

6

1996

2001

David Kinsella

NewZealand

6

1982

1985

Swaroop Kishen

India

6

1981

1985

David Millns

England

6

2020

2022

Sam Nogajski

Australia

6

2017

2020

Max O'Connell

Australia

6

1975

1981

Ikram Rabbani

Pakistan

6

1984

1995

Jasbir Singh

India

6

1994

2000

M. R. Singh

India

6

1993

2000

Richard Smith

Ireland

6

2012

2014

Tom Spencer

England

6

1972

1975

Nitin Bathi

Netherlands

5

2021

2022

Charles Coventry

Zimbabwe

5

2000

2001

Graham Cowan

NewZealand

5

1989

1991

Charlie Elliott

England

5

1972

1974

K. S. Giridharan

India

5

1994

1999

Satish Gupta

India

5

1999

2002

Sanjay Hazare

India

5

2009

2010

B. Jamula

India

5

1990

1999

Arthur Jepson

England

5

1974

1976

Siddiq Khan

Pakistan

5

1990

1995

Sudhakar Kulkarni

India

5

1986

1988

Barrie Leadbeater

England

5

1983

2000

Allahudien Paleker

SouthAfrica

5

2019

2022

Izatullah Safi

Afghanistan

5

2017

2022

Chandra Sathe

India

5

1993

2000

Said Shah

Pakistan

5

1984

1997

Devendra Sharma

India

5

1997

2002

Bill Sheahan

Australia

5

1993

1994

Durga Subedi

Nepal

5

2020

2022

V. Vikramraju

India

5

1984

1988

Jacqueline Williams

WestIndies

5

2019

2019

Tanvir Ahmed

Bangladesh

4

2021

2022

Karran Bayney

Canada

4

2009

2010

Feroze Butt

Pakistan

4

1985

1994

Iknow Chabi

Zimbabwe

4

2019

2022

Barry Dudleston

England

4

1992

2001

John Hastie

NewZealand

4

1975

1982

Ian Higginson

NewZealand

4

1983

1984

Karl Hurter

SouthAfrica

4

2002

2006

R. R. Kadam

India

4

1986

1987

Narendra Menon

India

4

1993

1998

C. R. Mohite

India

4

1998

2002

A. L. Narasimhan

India

4

1983

1993

David Narine

WestIndies

4

1981

1985

David Odhiambo

Kenya

4

2012

2019

Bob Parry

Australia

4

2002

2002

R. T. Ramachandran

India

4

1993

1998

R. S. Rathore

India

4

1986

1991

Ahmed Shahab

Pakistan

4

2015

2015

Virender Sharma

India

4

2020

2022

Gazi Sohel

Bangladesh

4

2021

2022

Pat Whyte

WestIndies

4

1983

1988

Jahangir Alam

Bangladesh

3

2001

2002

Aloke Bhattacharjee

India

3

1998

2002

Tabarak Dar

HongKong

3

2016

2017

Eric Dempster

NewZealand

3

1974

1976

Jiban Ghosh

India

3

1981

1984

Sailab Hossain

Bangladesh

3

2001

2002

Huub Jansen

Netherlands

3

2018

2019

Phil Jones

NewZealand

3

2014

2015

Jose Kurushinkal

India

3

1994

1996

Jeff Luck

Namibia

3

2006

2006

Rajan Mehra

India

3

1982

1987

Ryan Milne

Scotland

3

2022

2022

Robert Monteith

NewZealand

3

1975

1981

Bala Murali

India

3

1994

1997

S. R. Ramchandra Rao

India

3

1983

1987

Dusty Rhodes

England

3

1972

1973

Martin Saggers

England

3

2020

2022

Adriaan van den Dries

Netherlands

3

2021

2022

Shaid Wadvalla

SouthAfrica

3

2001

2002

Ernest Wainscott

NewZealand

3

1973

1975

Arthur Watson

Australia

3

1979

1980

Andrew Weekes

WestIndies

3

1983

1989

Asif Yaqoob

Pakistan

3

2019

2022

Gerard Abood

Australia

2

2018

2020

K. N. Ananthapadmanabhan

India

2

2021

2022

Basil Anthony

SriLanka

2

1982

1983

Chris Balderstone

England

2

1994

1998

Sukha Bose

India

2

1983

1984

Bruce Bricknell

NewZealand

2

1981

1982

Tom Brooks

Australia

2

1971

1975

Mike Burns

England

2

2020

2022

Kevin Carmody

Australia

2

1979

1980

Stan Cowman

NewZealand

2

1983

1983

Bhairab Ganguli

India

2

1982

1984

Johnny Gayle

WestIndies

2

1984

1988

Mohammad Ghouse

India

2

1983

1984

Francis Gomes

India

2

2000

2001

Ralph Gosein

WestIndies

2

1978

1978

V. M. Gupte

India

2

1999

1999

S. N. Hanumantha Rao

India

2

1981

1982

Mohammed Hosein

WestIndies

2

1988

1989

Islam Khan

Pakistan

2

1994

1995

Vinayak Kulkarni

India

2

1999

2000

Thomas McCall

NewZealand

2

1985

1985

R. Mrithyunjayan

India

2

1983

1985

Rab Nawaz

Pakistan

2

1982

1984

Lakani Oala

PapuaNewGuinea

2

2017

2017

K. T. Ponnambalam

SriLanka

2

1985

1986

G. A. Pratapkumar

India

2

1998

2001

Ram Punjabi

India

2

1982

1982

Showkatur Rahman

Bangladesh

2

2001

2002

Kasturi Ramaswami

India

2

1982

1982

Prageeth Rambukwella

SriLanka

2

2022

2022

Nagaraja Rao

India

2

1985

1986

B. K. Sadashiva

India

2

1998

1999

H. S. Sekhon

India

2

1994

1996

Rangachari Vijayaraghavan

India

2

1990

2000

Compton Vyfhuis

WestIndies

2

1977

1981

Afzaal Ahmed

Pakistan

1

1994

1994

Mesbahuddin Ahmed

Bangladesh

1

2002

2002

Agha Saadat Ali

Pakistan

1

1978

1978

Masroor Ali

Pakistan

1

1986

1986

Phillip Alleyne

WestIndies

1

1978

1978

Mohamed Baksh

WestIndies

1

1983

1983

George Browne

WestIndies

1

1988

1988

Ghafoor Butt

Pakistan

1

1982

1982

Jack Collins

Australia

1

1979

1979

William Copeland

Australia

1

1979

1979

Salil Das

India

1

1985

1985

Narendra Dave

Kenya

1

2001

2001

Sankara Dendapani

India

1

1998

1998

Suresh Deo

India

1

1996

1996

Rockie D'Mello

Kenya

1

2001

2001

Gary Duperouzel

Australia

1

1980

1980

Nilay Dutta

India

1

1990

1990

Nigel Fleming

Zimbabwe

1

1994

1994

Ralph Gardiner

NewZealand

1

1976

1976

Madhav Gothoskar

India

1

1981

1981

Mahendra Gupte

India

1

1983

1983

Tej Handu

India

1

1994

1994

Les Harmer

NewZealand

1

1974

1974

Rocky Harris

Australia

1

1979

1979

Azhar Hasan

Pakistan

1

1977

1977

Dalton Holder

WestIndies

1

1995

1995

Zafar Iqbal

Pakistan

1

2000

2000

Vinay Kumar Jha

Nepal

1

2022

2022

Allan Jones

England

1

1996

1996

Alu Kapa

PapuaNewGuinea

1

2017

2017

K. R. Karimanickam

India

1

1986

1986

T. R. Kashyappan

India

1

2000

2000

B. R. Keshavamurthy

India

1

1986

1986

Taufeeq Khan

Pakistan

1

1992

1992

Donovan Koch

Australia

1

2022

2022

O. Krishna

India

1

1998

1998

K. G. Lakshminarayan

India

1

2002

2002

Andrew Louw

Namibia

1

2021

2021

Zainool Maccum

WestIndies

1

1998

1998

Clancy Mack

WestIndies

1

2001

2001

Jayaraman Madanagopal

India

1

2022

2022

Syed Mahabubullah

Bangladesh

1

2002

2002

M. S. Mahal

India

1

2002

2002

Wesley Malcolm

WestIndies

1

1978

1978

Iftikhar Malik

Pakistan

1

1993

1993

Sadiq Mohammad

Pakistan

1

2000

2000

M. G. Mukherjee

India

1

1986

1986

Forster Mutizwa

Zimbabwe

1

2022

2022

R. Nagarajan

India

1

1998

1998

Muhammed Nanabhay

SouthAfrica

1

2002

2002

Christian Nyazika

Zimbabwe

1

2001

2001

Alan Oakman

England

1

1972

1972

Stanton Parris

WestIndies

1

1983

1983

Cleophas Paynter

WestIndies

1

1977

1977

Camillus Perera

SriLanka

1

1985

1985

Christopher Phiri

Zimbabwe

1

2022

2022

Suren Phookan

India

1

1986

1986

Claire Polosak

Australia

1

2019

2019

Saqib Qureshi

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