MUMBAI: Nitin Menon, an ICC Elite panel umpire, has created history by officiating the most number of international matches as an on-field Indian umpire. He surpassed the record held by former India off-spinner Srinivas Venkataraghavan for more than 20 years. The 40-year-old from Indore is currently doing duty in the ongoing T20 World Cup in the USA & West Indies.
Menon has officiated in 23 Tests, 58 ODIs and 45 T20Is (126 matches overall) as an on-field umpire. Venkataraghavan officiated in 73 Tests and 52 ODIs (125 matches) as an on-field umpire.
Menon is India's only umpire in the ICC Elite Panel, where he was inducted in 2020. The 40-year-old from Indore was the on-field umpire in the third Ashes Test at Headingley, Leeds last year. Along with Sri Lanka's Kumar Dharmasena, Menon officiated the 2023 World Cup opener between England and New Zealand in Ahmedabad on October 5, and in all the four Tests of the Border Gavaskar series in February-March in India last year.
