{"id":27913,"date":"2021-01-28T08:35:32","date_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27913"},"modified":"2021-01-28T09:55:55","modified_gmt":"2021-01-28T09:55:55","slug":"umpire-oxenford-announces-retirement-from-international-cricket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27913","title":{"rendered":"Umpire Oxenford announces retirement from international cricket"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Bruce-Oxenford.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Karachi: Australian umpire Bruce Oxenford has decided to retire from all formats of the game, bringing an end to a 15-year international umpiring career.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 60-year-old Oxenford last officiated the recently-concluded Australia vs India match in Brisbane. Meanwhile, he will continue to officiate in domestic fixtures in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>Oxenford, who officiated 62 Tests, 97 ODIs and 20 T20Is, was inducted into the ICC&#8217;s International Panel of umpires in 2007-08. He was promoted to the Elite Panel in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>He is known to introduce the arm shield as protective gear for umpires in international cricket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a wonderful time as a match official and will miss the camaraderie that comes with being a part of such a professional group,&#8221; he said in a statement. &#8220;I shall particularly miss seeing and interacting with the magnificent people who are part of the support structure of our game around the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is only one of those 16 umpires to have officiated in 50 or more Tests. He officiated in three 50-over men&#8217;s World Cups and three T20 World Cups, apart from officiating in two global women&#8217;s tournaments.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/aleem-sets-world-record-officiates-most-odis-on-field-umpire\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Aleem Dar sets world record, officiates most ODIs as on-field umpire<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Karachi: Australian umpire Bruce Oxenford has decided to retire from all formats of the game, bringing an end to a 15-year international umpiring career. The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=27913\" title=\"Umpire Oxenford announces retirement from international cricket\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27915,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27913\/revisions\/27915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}