ICC elite panel referees Michael Gough and Richard Illingworth from England will officiate at the sixth edition of the Pakistan Super League to be held in Karachi and Lahore from February 20 to March 22.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) confirmed on Friday that Aleem Dar and the English duo of Gough and Illingworth from the ICC Elite Referee Panel will join seven league national referees.
Foreign players representing the six PSL franchises have already started arriving in Karachi, which will host the first leg of the matches.
The seven local referees include Ahsan Raza, Asif Yaqoob (2020 PCB referee), Faisal Khan Afridi, Imran Jawed, Rashid Riaz, Shozab Raza and Zameer Haider.
The PCB also recruited former ICC Party Referee Panel member Roshan Mahanama to officiate at the 34-match tournament alongside Ali Naqvi, Iftikhar Ahmed, Muhammad Anees and Mohammad Javed Malik from PCB.
The opening of the tournament between the defending champion Karachi Kings and the 2019 winners Quetta Gladiators at the National Stadium will be refereed by Aleem Dar and Ahsan Raza, while Rashid Riaz and Asif Yaqoob will be the third and fourth referees respectively. Roshan Mahanama will be the referee for the match.
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