The ICC World Test Championship Final 2025 at Lord’s will feature an elite panel of match officials. Chris Gaffaney and Richard Illingworth will serve as the on-field umpires for the highlight match between South Africa and Australia, which kicks off on June 11.
Nitin Menon of India will be the fourth umpire, and Richard Kettleborough of England will serve as the TV umpire. Javagal Srinath, an Indian match referee, will oversee the match.
Gaffaney and Illingworth, who are from New Zealand and England, respectively, competed in the 2023 India vs. Australia Final. Illingworth, an Englishman, has officiated an on-field match in each of the three ICC World Test Championship Finals, including the first one in 2021. After winning the David Shepherd trophy for the fourth time in 2024, he is currently the ICC Umpire of the Year.
Alongside Illingworth, Gaffaney officiated the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup Final last year. He made his Test umpiring debut in 2014.
Kettleborough previously officiated the 2021 Final between India and New Zealand. Notably, Kettleborough officiated Sri Lanka’s match against the West Indies in Galle in 2010—his first time officiating Test matches. He has advanced to the finals of several ICC competitions, such as the International Cricket Council Champions Trophy and the Men’s Cricket World Cup.
Having officiated at the Test level since 2019, Menon makes his debut in the World Test Championship Final. Prior to becoming the youngest umpire to preside at an ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup in 2023, he served as the TV umpire for the Final of the International Cricket Council Men’s T20 Cricket World Cup in 2021.
After a fiercely competitive two-year cycle of Test matches played all over the world, we are happy to announce an accomplished group of match officials for the International Cricket Council World Test Championship Final at Lord’s. We make an effort to choose the most worthy and qualified referees for every game, and we have no doubt that they will do a fantastic job. “I hope they enjoy this assignment and wish them all the best on behalf of the ICC,” ICC chairman Jay Shah said in the statement.
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