Rudi Koertzen of South Africa has been replaced by Aleem Dar of Pakistan for England's test series with Sri Lanka. It comes following a very bad decision by Rudi to give Srilankan batsman Kumara Sangakara out caught while the replays showed that the ball had missed the bat by a good distance and had popped off his shoulder. You can see the decision here:However, Sangakara has shown great spirit in defending Rudi. Sangakara says:
"International umpires are not required to come and apologise when they make a mistake.
"It thought it was a nice gesture on Rudi's part to come and have a chat and we moved on.
"I thought Rudi had an excellent game and he's a very good umpire. He's been one of the top three umpires over the last two years and as a team we respect him a lot and have a good rapport with him."
Source: skysports
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