Champions Trophy 2025: A 'slap' on PCB's face, now this veteran umpire also refused to go to Pakistan

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Pakistan has suffered another big setback before the Champions Trophy. The big news is that umpire Nitin Menon has refused to go to Pakistan. According to reports, this umpire included in the ICC panel is not going to Pakistan. Earlier, the Indian team had also refused to go to Pakistan, now Indian umpire Nitin Menon has also given a big setback to PCB by taking this decision. This is the reason why Nitin Menon's name is not in the list of umpires released for the Champions Trophy.

These umpires will umpire in Champions Trophy

Champions Trophy: Kumar Dharmasena, Chris Gaffney, Michael Gough, Adrian Holdstock, Richard Illingworth, Richard Kettlebrough, Ehsan Raza, Paul Rifle, Sharafuddaula Ibne Shahid, Rodney Tucker, Alex Wharf, Joel Wilson

Javagal Srinath also out

The big news is that former Indian fast bowler and ICC's very experienced match referee Javagal Srinath is also out of the Champions Trophy. He too has not got a chance in the match referee panel. David Boon, Andrew Pycroft and Ranjan Madugalle will be the match referees during the Champions Trophy.

Experience of Nitin Menon and Javagal Srinath

Nitin Menon has umpired in 40 Tests, in which he was on the field 30 times and TV umpire 10 times. He has umpired in 75 ODIs. While he has also umpired in 75 T20 matches. He has also umpired in 13 women's T20 international matches. Javagal Srinath's career as a match referee is quite big. This veteran has been a match referee in 79 Tests, 272 ODIs. Apart from this, he has also done this work in 136 T20 matches. Recently, Srinath came into controversy when he approved the decision to give a substitute player to the Indian team in the Pune T20 against England. Srinath allowed Harshit Rana to play as a replacement player after Shivam Dubey got injured, after which there was a lot of controversy.