Mumbai: Umpire Allahude Paleker, who made his test debut in the second test of South India in The Wanderers in Johannesburg, has his family’s root in a village called Shiv in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
Ironically, the 57th South African Palaker – Umpire to lead in the test – made a five-day debut with ‘Mentor’ Marias Erasmus at the other end.
Like everyone, Batting Legend Sunil Gavascar was very impressed with the good paleker people on the first day of the test.
“So far, he has a decision,” Gavaskar said.
Paleker has chostered in three ODIS and 29 T20IS.
The 44-year-old player, who was appointed by the ICC to the Elite Elite Panel in 2017, has come to India in 2015 to lead in two Trophy Ranji matches.
“He has been leading in Mumbai versus Madhya Pradesh at Wankhede Stadium.
He has a very good game.
I was impressed with the referee,” Ganesh Iyer, Umpire ex-BCCI and former member of the Managing Committee of the Cricket Mumbai Association told TII.
“We are very pleased that a boy from our village is the referee in a trial match.
We are very proud of him.
His grandfather belongs to our village.
His father went to South Africa to find a job, and settled there.
He still has a house and relatives here.
We are also relatives.
He and his family have come to our village in 2014 to attend the wedding of one of their relatives, “Durwesh Paleker, Sarpanch from Shiv Village in Ratnagiri District, told TII.