New Delhi: English pair Richard Illingworth and Alex Wharf will officiate the T20 World Cup closing between India and New Zealand, the ICC introduced on Friday.

Illingworth will take cost of his second consecutive males’s T20 World Cup closing, having stood alongside Chris Gaffaney in 2024. Defending champions India and New Zealand will conflict for the trophy on Sunday in Ahmedabad. Illingworth’s spectacular latest report of appointments continued, having additionally stood within the males’s 2023 World Cup closing and the lads’s 2025 Champions Trophy summit conflict.

He’s joined by compatriot Wharf, who will oversee his first senior ICC World Cup closing. Wharf beforehand stood on the ICC Girls’s Cricket World Cup 2022 and ICC Males’s Cricket World Cup 2023 occasions earlier than he joined the Emirates ICC Elite Panel of Umpires final 12 months. The pair, who had been collectively within the center for New Zealand’s semi-final victory over South Africa on Wednesday, will likely be supported by third umpire Allahuddien Paleker and fourth umpire Adrian Holdstock, each from South Africa whereas the match referee will likely be Andy Pycroft of Zimbabwe Paleker was elevated to the Elite Panel of Umpires alongside Wharf in March 2025 and has stood in six matches through the event.