Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka)

Afghanista­ni umpire Bismillah Shinwari is alive and safe

- BY BIPIN DANI

ICC’S umpire Bismillah Jan Shinwari is alive and safe.the 36-year-old Afghanista­ni umpire’s death had been wrongly reported in internatio­nal media.

“The Afghanista­ni umpire died in a roadside blast which took place in Afghanista­n’s Nangarhar province on Saturday”, the TV reports said.

Speaking to the Daily Mirror from Afghanista­n, shin w ari, a member of the Emirates ICC Internatio­nal Panel of Umpires,said,“i am very much at home and safe”. “It has been wrongly reported about my death.i am alive but yes,four members of two uncles’families have been killed in the bomb blast.” “My nephew and three other children of my uncle’s family were going from home to hospital for a general check up and at the same time some bomb blast took place nearby and they have passed away.”

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Bismillah Jan Shinwari

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