Ranmore Martinesz
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| Full name | Ranmore Etholson John Martinesz | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 June 1967 Colombo,Sri Lanka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Batting | Right-handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Bowling | Right-arm medium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Bowler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | Sebastianites | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| FCdebut | 16 December 1994 Sebastianites vKurunegala Youth Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| LastFC | 10 February 1995 Sebastianites vGalle Cricket Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Testsumpired | 8 (2013–2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ODIsumpired | 46 (2010–2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| T20Isumpired | 29 (2010–2018) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Source:CricketArchive,27 October 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ranmore Etholson John Martinesz(born 24 June 1967) is aSri Lankaumpireand a formerfirst-class cricketer.Martinesz played first-class cricket for theMoratuwa-basedSebastianites Cricket and Athletic Club.His career was short, with him making just four first-class appearances.[1]
Umpiring career
[edit]Martinesz has proved himself an umpire worthy of being recognized at international level and be included in theICC's International Panel of Umpiresin the near future. For the past three years he has officiated as third umpire in Test matches and ODIs. His most important assignment was umpiring the Euro Asia Cup one-day final betweenIndiaandPakistanat Abu Dhabi in front of a crowd of 50,000. Apart from that he has officiated Intercontinental matches at Nepal and in 2003 umpired matches in Bangladesh's domestic tournament. Martinesz was forced to take up umpiring due to a persistent back injury which cut short his career as a cricketer. A fast bowling all-rounder he had a distinguished career atSt. Peter's Collegefinishing as runner-up best bowler in 1985 and then being selected to play for Sri Lanka Under 19 against Australia under 19 in 1985 and for Sri Lanka under 23 against Pakistan under 23 in 1987/88. He represented SSC, Negombo CC and Sebastianites in the Premier tournament before eventually retiring from the game in 1994. He took up umpiring in 1996 and was promoted to the Premier division in 2000.[2]
He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the2015 Cricket World Cup.[3]In January 2018, he was named as one of the seventeen on-field umpires for the2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.[4]
See also
[edit]- List of Test cricket umpires
- List of One Day International cricket umpires
- List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires
References
[edit]- ^"Ranmore Martinesz".ESPNcricinfo.Retrieved4 July2012.
- ^"Ranmore Martinesz".CricketArchive.Retrieved4 July2012.
- ^"ICC announces match officials for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015".ICC Cricket. 2 December 2014. Archived fromthe originalon 30 March 2015.Retrieved12 February2015.
- ^"Match officials appointed for U19 Cricket World Cup".International Cricket Council.Retrieved4 January2018.