Latest update February 6th, 2025 7:27 AM
Guyana’s Duguid appointed on ICC TV Umpires panel
Malcolm removed after ‘poor’ report
Guyanese Nigel Duguid continue to rapidly climb the International Cricket Umpiring ladder due
Nigel Duguid (right) and Clancy Mack at Sabina Park during last year’s Regional One-Day competition.
to consistent performances since standing in his first Regional tournament in Jamaica last year October.
The former GCC left-arm spinner who gave up playing to begin his Umpiring career in his 30’s, turns 42 on the 25th of this month and news of his appointment to the ICC TV Umpires panel is an early birthday gift.
Duguid has shown tremendous dedication, commitment and commonsense since his elevation to the Regional level last year, and will also Umpire matches in next year’s English cricket season after doing duties in the Bangladesh ‘A’ team tour of the Caribbean this month.
The affable Duguid will stand in the unofficial Test and two unofficial Twenty20s in St. Lucia, before doing duties in the three 50-over games in St. Vincent.
While Duguid, a father of three, continues his upward journey Jamaican Norman Malcolm has reportedly been dropped from the ICC panel
Malcolm is understood to have been dropped from the Caribbean’s contingent on the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) second-tier International Umpires Panel (IUP), a move that means that the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has completed the IUP generation change it started seven months ago (March 16th, 2011).
In that time the WICB has reduced the average age of its IUP panel members from 54 to 43, and from a group with first class umpiring experience that ranged from 44-74 games, to the 7-16 currently held by the new four-man group.
At the beginning of 2011, Norman and Guyana’s Clyde Duncan were IUP on-field members and Goland Greaves of St Vincent and Clancy Mack of Antigua the television officials, however, the latter three were dropped in March and Malcolm apparently sometime in the last month or so.
The new panel is made up of on-field members Peter Nero of Joel Wilson, who are both from Trinidad and Tobago, and third umpires Gregory Brathwaite of Barbados and Duguid.
Nero, Wilson and Brathwaite joined the IUP last March, the former leap frogging straight to an on-field spot alongside Norman, and the latter pair as third umpires to replace Greaves and Mack.
Now, Wilson has moved into an on-field place alongside Nero to replace Norman, Brathwaite remains as a third umpire and Duguid comes onto the panel in the same position. None of the four played cricket at first class level prior to taking up umpiring.
Malcolm, 56, leaves the international scene after a career that never, from an ICC appointments perspective at least, really got started. The Jamaican’s first international experience was in an Under-19 Test match in September 1996, an appointment made by the WICB, which then waited four more years before selecting him as the third umpire in a home One Day International (ODI).
The ICC did not itself move to select Norman for an on-field role in the one-day format until July 2007, seven years on, that debut involving second-tier nation Scotland. It was June 2006 before the WICB gave him a third umpire spot in a Test for the first time.
PTG understands that Malcolm received “a poor rating” from Barry Dudleston the ICC’s Regional Umpire High Performance Manager for the Caribbean earlier this year. As a consequence, the ICC is believed to have told the WICB that should they nominate the Jamaican for another stint on the IUP he would not be accepted.
Malcolm stood in 27 ODIs, 13 of which involved second-tier nations, all of his first-tier match appointments being from the WICB not the ICC. Most of those games were played in the Caribbean, but there were others in Canada, Ireland, the Netherlands and Scotland.
There were also 14 matches in the television suite in ODIs, a spot he occupied six times in Tests, and 7 Twenty20 Internationals. His other overseas appointment by the ICC was in the Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand in January 2010 (PTG 560-2848, 29 January 2010).
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