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Veteran ICC elite umpire Asad Rauf© AFP
Veteran ICC elite umpire Asad Rauf now sells dresses and footwear in a shop in Pakistan. For the length of a present interview, Rauf, who umpired in 170 games from 2000 to 2013, stated that he’s now not any more drawn to cricket and is working the shop for his workers no longer for himself. It is worth noting that the umpire became banned in 2016 by the BCCI after he became chanced on responsible of vulgar practices and disrupting the sport. “Mr Asad Rauf has been banned for a interval of 5 years from umpiring or playing or representing cricket in any make or anyway being linked with the actions of the Board and its Affiliates,” the BCCI had the stated in a assertion in 2016.
Rauf became accused of accepting gifts from bookies and became allegedly eager within the 2013 IPL space fixing scandal.
“Maine 2013 ke baad cricket se bilkul hi…kyunki mai jo kaam chhodta hu usko chhod hi deta hu (I have not been fervent with the sport since 2013, because after I leave something I leave it fully),” stated Rauf in an interview to Paktv.tv.
Meanwhile, explaining about his knowing of working the shop irrespective of being within the elite panel of umpires within the past, Rauf stated: “Bhai, ye mera kaam nahi hai, ye mere workers ki rozi lagi hui hai, ye mai unke liye krta hu (That is no longer for me, right here’s the day after day wages of my workers, I work for them).”
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Out of the 170 games, Rauf umpired in 49 Exams, 98 ODIs and 23 T20Is.
“It is my dependancy to attain the tip of irrespective of work I acquire. I started work as a shopkeeper, I even contain reached its top. I played cricket; I reached the tip. And then when I started off as an umpire, I stated to myself that I need to attain the tip right here as successfully… I even contain no greed. I even contain viewed loads of cash, and I even contain viewed the enviornment,” stated Rauf.
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