Umpire Marais Erasmus to retire after second New Zealand-Australia Test

Veteran South African umpire Marais Erasmus will walk out to officiate his final international cricket match when New Zealand take on Australia in the second Test in Christchurch. He will complete his experience on the ICC's world class board of umpires, having remained as the on-field official in 82 men's Tests, 124 men's ODIs, 43 men's T20Is and 18 ladies' T20Is. He has additionally been the television umpire in 131 global games. CSA will decide the matches he works from this point forward. Erasmus has had a celebrated vocation, directing in four men's Cricket World Cups (2011, 2015, 2019, 2023), seven men's T20 World Cups (2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2021 and 2022) and three ladies' T20 World Cups (2010, 2012, 2014) beside two men's Bosses Prize competitions in 2013 and 2017. He was one of the two on-field umpires for the sensational last of 2019 World Cup among Britain and New Zealand and, last year, he was the umpire who maintained an allure that made Angelo Mathews the principal hitter to be planned out in global cricket. "I have lived it up on the Tip top Board, directing in some top-class matches all over the planet and in worldwide ICC occasions," Erasmus, who was delegated to the ICC tip top board of umpires in 2010, making him the longest serving umpire on the rundown alongside Pole Exhaust, said. "I'm extremely lucky to have proceeded with my relationship with the game after my experience as a cricketer in South Africa and have partaken in each second," he said. "While I will miss being on the First class Board and the difficulties that accompany it, I feel it is the ideal opportunity for me to step away and hope to add to the game in another manner." "Marais typifies what the World class Board should be. He is the sort of individual that promptly causes you to feel appreciated in his presence. His character off the field is what you see on the field. He can quiet everybody, and you feel calm in his organization," Exhaust said, expressing gratitude toward Erasmus for the World class board. "I figure the best commendation I could give Marais is that he would be referenced concurrently as the incomparable David Shepherd, both so quiet however serious areas of strength for exceptionally so all around regarded by every one of those in the game." Erasmus won the David Shepherd Prize for the ICC Umpire of the Year in 2016, 2017 and 2021. He'd made his presentation as a global umpire in February 2006.