The Indian Under-19 cricket team won the World Cup in 2008 under the captaincy of Virat Kohli. He was included in that team and we will now see a player who played a brilliant innings in the final, umpiring in IPL 2025.

This player is none other than Tanmay Srivastava, who has now been appointed as an umpire in the IPL by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI).

Tanmay Srivastava: Travel from player to umpire

• In the 2008 Under-19 World Cup final, Tanmay Srivastava played an important innings of 46 runs while batting at number 3 against South Africa.
• He had said goodbye to cricket about five years ago and has been umpiring in domestic cricket since then.
• Now BCCI has officially included him in the IPL Umpire panel.

Uttar Pradesh Cricket Association (UPCA) shared information on social media that Tanmay Srivastava would umpire in IPL 2025.

Tanmay Srivastava’s IPL career

• Tanmay has also played IPL.
• He played 7 matches for Kings XI Punjab (now Punjab Kings) in 2008 and 2009.
• However, he could not leave much impact and score only 8 runs.
• 7 out of 7 runs came in the same match, while their contribution to the remaining innings was zero.

Great career in domestic cricket

First Class Match: 90 | Run: 4918
List a Match: 44 | Run: 1728
T20 Match: 34 | Run: 649

• In 2020, he played the last professional match and then retired from cricket.
• He has also participated in the league of retired cricketers.

Tanmay will umpire in IPL 2025

Now Tanmay Srivastava will not be seen as a player in the ground, but as an umpire.

BCCI has officially appointed him.
He has got this responsibility due to a good experience of umpiring in domestic cricket.
His journey from a player to an umpire has been very interesting.