{"id":82216,"date":"2021-06-08T10:27:44","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T10:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82216"},"modified":"2021-06-08T11:06:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:06:17","slug":"salman-butt-on-mission-to-become-match-referee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82216","title":{"rendered":"Salman Butt on mission to become match referee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Butt.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: Cricketer Salman Butt is now on a mission to become a match referee after he took part in\u00a0the online Level-1 Umpiring course for umpires and match officials which began on Monday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As many as 49 cricketers were part of the course, including international players Abdul Rauf and Bilal Asif<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">A total of 350 personnel are taking part in the course and they are being provided training by the match referees from PCB\u2019s Elite and Supplementary panels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The participants will be provided knowledge about the basic umpiring rules, regulations and laws of the game before undergoing written tests, fitness tests and interviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">This initiative is part of the Pakistan Cricket Board\u2019s promise to increase the employment opportunities for former cricketers and the candidates who successfully complete the course will be eligible to officiate club and school games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The PCB opened the registration in April for the course.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3 align=\"justify\"><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/have-been-told-pcbs-future-plans-claims-salman-butt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u2018I have been told that I am not in PCB\u2019s future plans\u2019 claims Salman Butt<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: Cricketer Salman Butt is now on a mission to become a match referee after he took part in\u00a0the online Level-1 Umpiring course for umpires <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=82216\" title=\"Salman Butt on mission to become match referee\">[&#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\/82216"}],"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=82216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82218,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82216\/revisions\/82218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}