Taufel to retire after World Twenty20
The Australian umpire Simon Taufel will step down from the ICC’s elite panel at the end of the World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.
Taufel, 41, will take up the newly-created role of umpire performance and training manager with the ICC, a job that he hopes will allow him to spend more time at home in Sydney with his wife and children after nearly a decade of travelling the world as a match official. Taufel was named the ICC’s Umpire of the Year five successive times from 2004 to 2008 and has remained one of the game’s most respected umpires throughout his career.
In 2011, he stood in the World Cup…
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