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    The talented Lauren Agenbag has been added to Cricket South Africa’s reserve-list umpires panel. Former Proteas cricketer Shandre Fritz, meanwhile, has joined the match referees panel.

    Senior South African umpires Marais Erasmus, Shaun George, Adrian Holdstock, Bongani Jele and Allahudien Paleker will remain part of the International Cricket Council’s elite, reserve and international panels.

    ‘Congratulations to all our umpires on their deserved appointments for the approaching season and particularly to Lauren and Shandre,’ said CSA acting director of cricket Corrie van Zyl.

    ‘Umpires are central to the game of cricket and we are fortunate to have an extremely competent group of match officials. We will continue to create opportunities for our umpires to develop through our exchange programmes with Australia, India and New Zealand.

    ‘Lauren has already umpired at women’s senior international level in T20 matches and we have identified her as one of the exciting prospects to come through our talent identification programme.

    ‘Shandre’s cricket CV speaks for itself. She represented the Proteas in 85 white-ball international matches between 2003 and 2014, captaining the country on several occasions. In addition, she became the first South African to score a century in international T20 cricket and was honoured as South African Women’s Cricketer of the Year in 2012.

    ‘I would also like to pay tribute and extend our thanks to Abdulatief Barnes, who is retiring from our match referees panel after a long and outstanding career both as a player and match official.’

    CSA first-class panel: Murray Brown, Johan Cloete, Siphelele Gasa, Lubabalo Gcuma, Shaun George, Stephen Harris, Ryan Hendricks, Adrian Holdstock, Clifford Isaacs, Arno Jacobs, Bongani Jele, Tom Mokorosi, Allahudien Paleker, Dennis Smith, Abdoellaah Steenkamp, Philip Vosloo, Brad White.

    CSA reserve-list panel: Rudi Birkenstock, Dawood Arkeldien, Gawie Botha, Hassen Dawood, Jannie Erasmus, Mazizi Gampu, Gladman Gaseba, Marlon Jansen, Kevin Lawrence, Sinethemba Mjekula, Bongani Ntshebe, Stephen Rex, Jurie Sadler, Abongile Sodumo, Godwin von Willingh, Lauren Agenbag.

    CSA match referees: Devdas Govindjee, Barry Lambson, Zama Ndamane, Laurance Matroos, Gerrie Pienaar, Shaid Wadvalla, Shandre Fritz.

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