{"id":20593,"date":"2014-11-13T06:36:04","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=20593"},"modified":"2014-11-13T06:36:04","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:36:04","slug":"craig-gribble-appointed-as-lead-umpires-manager-for-hockey-india-league-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=20593","title":{"rendered":"Craig Gribble appointed as lead umpires manager for Hockey India League 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-20592\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26.jpg\" alt=\"Craig-Gribble-26\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" width=\"260\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: Hero Hockey India League on Wednesday announced the appointment of Craig Gribble as the Lead Umpires Manager for the tournament. This will be the second time that Craig Gribble will be seen playing the all important role in the tournament.<br \/>Speaking on Craig Gribble\u2019s appointment Hero Hockey India League&#8217;s CEO, Ms. Elena Norman said, \u201cWe welcome back Craig Gribble to the League this year. We are happy that he has agreed to be associated with HHIL yet again this year and his presence will add the much required boost to the Umpires&#8217; line-up in the tournament. We look forward to him getting into his role as the Lead Umpires Manager and having another successful year with us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Excited on being associated with the Hero Hockey India League once again, the newly appointed Lead Umpires Manager Craig Gribble said, \u201cI am extremely delighted to be connected to Hero HIL yet again. My first year with the tournament was an excellent experience where I got an opportunity to work with the appointed umpires and officiating board and I am even more excited for my second term with them. The fine combination of India\u2019s home and International players continues to amaze me and I can hardly wait for the event to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>48-year-old Gribble is presently working as the Technical Manager for Hockey New Zealand. He has conducted a number of events over the recent years in this capacity. Craig has also been a part of Commonwealth Games 2010, two Champions Trophy Tournaments in 2011 &amp; 2012, two Olympic Qualification Tournaments in 2012, London Olympic Games in 2012 and FIH World League Semi-finals in Rotterdam 2013.<br \/>He has been working as an international Umpires Manager since 2007 after retiring from international umpiring in 2006. He stood in a total of 48 test matches from 1997-2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-20592\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26.jpg\" alt=\"Craig-Gribble-26\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" width=\"260\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Craig-Gribble-26-150x99.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>New Delhi: Hero Hockey India League on Wednesday announced the appointment of Craig Gribble as the Lead Umpires Manager for the tournament. This will be the second time that Craig Gribble will be seen playing the all important role in the tournament.<br \/>Speaking on Craig Gribble\u2019s appointment Hero Hockey India League&#8217;s CEO, Ms. Elena Norman said, \u201cWe welcome back Craig Gribble to the League this year. We are happy that he has agreed to be associated with HHIL yet again this year and his presence will add the much required boost to the Umpires&#8217; line-up in the tournament. We look forward to him getting into his role as the Lead Umpires Manager and having another successful year with us\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Excited on being associated with the Hero Hockey India League once again, the newly appointed Lead Umpires Manager Craig Gribble said, \u201cI am extremely delighted to be connected to Hero HIL yet again. My first year with the tournament was an excellent experience where I got an opportunity to work with the appointed umpires and officiating board and I am even more excited for my second term with them. The fine combination of India\u2019s home and International players continues to amaze me and I can hardly wait for the event to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey-hockey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Craig Gribble appointed as lead umpires manager for Hockey India League 2015 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=20593\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Craig Gribble appointed as lead umpires manager for Hockey India League 2015 - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New Delhi: Hero Hockey India League on Wednesday announced the appointment of Craig Gribble as the Lead Umpires Manager for the tournament. 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