Ahsan Raza


Ahsan Raza is a Pakistani cricket umpire and former cricketer.

Playing career

Ahsan Raza played for a number of Pakistani teams including Faisalabad, Habib Bank Limited, Lahore and Sargodha.

Umpiring career

Ahsan Raza is Pakistan's nominated third umpire on the International Cricket Council International Panel of Umpires and Referees. Ahsan Raza made his debut as a first-class umpire in 2006 and had umpired 35 matches to the end of February 2009. He got a contract from Pakistan Cricket Board along with Zameer Haider and Shozab Raza in 2012.
In January 2018, he was named as one of the seventeen on-field umpires for the 2018 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In October 2018, he was named as one of the twelve on-field umpires for the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20. In October 2019, he was appointed as one of the twelve umpires to officiate matches in the 2019 ICC T20 World Cup Qualifier tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
In February 2020, the ICC named him as one of the umpires to officiate in matches during the 2020 ICC Women's T20 World Cup in Australia. Raza was also named as one of the two on-field umpires for the final of the tournament.

Attack

On 3 March 2009, Ahsan Raza was injured in an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore. He was shot twice and was in a serious condition in a Lahore hospital.