Former cricket umpire Rudi Koertzen passes away after car crash
Highlights:
- Rudi Koertzen, the former international cricket umpire, has passed away in a car crash at the age of 73.
- Koertzen stood in his first international match back in 1992 between India and South Africa at Port Elizabeth.
- He officiate in 331 international matches, a record that stool tall until he retired in the year 2010.
- He officiated in international cricket from December 1992 to July 2019, standing in 108 Test matches, 209 ODIs, 14 T20Is and one WT20I.
- Koertzen stands third in the list of umpires to have stood in the most number of Test matches, behind Aleem Dar and Steve Bucknor.
- Koertzen became a full-time umpire of the International Cricket Council (ICC) in 1997 and later became one of the members Elite Panel when it was founded in 2002.
- He was only the second umpire after England’s David Shepherd to umpire in 150 ODIs in 2006 and the second umpire after Bucknor to stand in 100 Tests in 2009.
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