Mumbai, Jan 17: Newly promoted Suresh Shastri and Amish Saheba will be the two Cricket Board-appointed home umpires to officiate on-field with ICC-appointed Billy Bowden in the upcoming four ODIs against the West Indies.
Shastri would join Bowden in the first and third ODIs at Nagpur (January 21) and Chennai (January 27) while Saheba would do the on-field duty in the second (January 24) and fourth and last (January 31) ties at Cuttack and Vadodara respectively, a BCCI release said.
Shastri and Saheba have taken the place of A V Jayaprakash and K Hariharan in the BCCI's on-field ODI panel from this season. G A Pratapkumar would be the third umpire for the first three ODIs while Shastri would switch over to TV umpiring for the last ODI in the series for which ICC has appointed Alan Hurst of Australia as the match referee.
V N Kulkarni, Ravi Subramanian, A Y Gokhale and Jasbir Singh would perform the duties of the fourth umpire in the ODIs in that order. The West Indies squad led by Brian Lara is scheduled to arrive in Mumbai in two batches, tonight and tomorrow morning. (Agencies)
