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On August 26, the day before the first game in the two-match T20 series between West Indies and India in Florida, Leslie Reifer went to the teams training session. As he stood in the India nets, offspinner R Ashwin walked up and asked if he played for West Indies. MS Dhoni too wondered what a West Indies player was doing at an India training session. He wasnt aware that I was actually going to be standing in the game. I kind of do get that a lot, Reifer says over the phone from Montreal.Somewhat understandable, given that when Reifer stepped onto the ground in Lauderhill, Florida, in the second match, he was a week short of 27, probably the youngest international umpire in modern cricket. The ICC does not have official records, but Simon Taufel, who was regarded as one of the youngest previously, made his international debut at 28.I have always wanted be around international cricket, Reifer says. I used to play the game and I really wanted to end up an international cricketer, but I wasnt able to do that. So to be able to walk out as an international umpire was a tremendous honour - to be able to have reached so far at such a young age.Late this July, Reifer was packing his bags to join the rest of his family in Orlando, Florida for a holiday when he received a call from WICB operations manager Roland Holder, who told him he would be one of the match officials for the T20 series in Florida. Luckily, mum and dad did not have to travel too far and instead only had to take a bus between Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Reifer says.Unlike players, who are given their cap on the morning of their debut, umpires receive their kit in advance and have to be at the ground before the teams arrive. If Reifer had nerves, they didnt show. Ranjan Madugalle, the match referee, asked him to do nothing different from what he was used to doing from the time he took up umpiring seriously.The match ended in a fiasco when play was abandoned two overs into the second innings due to rain, after 40 minutes were lost at the beginning due to technical reasons that were never explained. It was not the best first day at the office for Reifer, but he says he managed to take home some learnings.From an umpiring perspective you have to cover all your bases and ensure that conditions in international cricket have to be safe. The major takeaway for me was managing the ground, weather and light - GWL in umpiring parlance.Reifer has good cricketing pedigree. Eight men from his immediate family have represented Barbados in cricket at various age groups, including first-class cricket - most famously Floyd, who was West Indies captain in nine matches in 2009.Reifer himself played for Barbados in Under-15 and U-16 cricket as a batting allrounder. He captained Jason Holder and Carlos Braithwaite, the current West Indies captains, at Barbados Community College. Reifer went to high school with Holder, who is a dear friend. Kraigg Braithwaite, Shane Dowrich, Roston Chase, Jomel Warrican and Shai Hope are peers. Reifer made his first-division club debut in the same match as England allrounder Chris Jordan.In 2008, at 18, Reifer found himself at a fork in the road. It was a period of uncertainty in terms of my cricket, he remembers. I finally had to make a decision about going to university overseas or staying back in Barbados. He decided to give himself a year before making up his mind.His father, a first-class and club cricketer in Barbados, was a member of the umpiring association. Reifer went along one day and met Vincent Bullen, a former first-class umpire. He showed me the umpiring pathway. He also showed me a document released by the ICC talking about the potential of umpiring and how far one could go at the international level if you are good enough.Reifers first match as an umpire was an U-15 game, when he was still 18. At the time, umpires used to wear the shirt-jacks [long white coats]. I actually used my dads shirt-jack - three times the size of me, a complete misfit, he says. People wanted to know who was this little boy coming to umpire. It was not common to see a youngster stand as umpire in Barbados.Progress was swift. By 2012, Reifer was standing in the Caribbean T20 competition. He was nervous and took his dad along with him to Trinidad for support. One of the five matches he stood in in that tournament featured his uncle Floyd and cousin Raymond.Raymond was bowling, Floyd was at first slip, I was umpiring, and my dad was in the stand. It was the first time Reifer was standing in a televised game. It was a bit nerve-wracking, but I stood calm. I stood in the moment.That temperament, and his diligent study of the Laws helped him make it to the Caribbean regional panel of umpires. Incidentally he was also the youngest umpire to stand in a first-class match.Like players watch videos to analyse their and others techniques, Reifer too spends time studying the habits of and calls made by the likes of Taufel, Aleem Dar and Richard Kettleborough.What does he think are the attributes you need to make it to the Elite Panel and stay there? You need to have very strong leadership attributes, a strong character and personality. You need to have good mental strength and also be very focused, because you are constantly under public scrutiny.The younger you are, the fitter you are, the stronger and sharper your senses should be. Not to say you will be a better decision-maker or a better umpire, because there are a lot of different facets to umpiring, but when it comes to the sensory elements, you will have an advantage.The image you come away with is of an orderly man. I prepare for every single match I do as though it is an international match. Mentally I prepare from the day before. Everything that I have done thus far in life has prepared me for cricket umpiring, he says. To that extent, he is a departure from the stereotype of the party-loving, extroverted young Caribbean male. [Being] from the Caribbean, you would normally [think of me as being] an outgoing guy who likes to go out and enjoy himself. I am that kind of person as well, but umpiring requires you to give up so much of your weekends. I have been sacrificing time away from parties, from fun activities, to focus on umpiring.Reifer, who also holds a Canadian passport, signed up for a Bachelors in Marketing with Concordia University in Montreal and received his degree when he was 24. He juggled umpiring and education, doing one semester instead of two annually. He then interned at the WICBs headquarters in Antigua in the marketing and event management department. He is also an entrepreneur and runs a sports retail store - Barbados Cricket Supplies.Reifer is part of a group of young international match officials who have witnessed a sea change in their profession in the last decade. Technology has been the catalyst behind many changes, subtle and overt, that affect the umpires decision-making. You have to be adaptable, be able to adjust and learn quickly, he says.In addition to staying up to date with the reading materials and resources made available by the ICC, Reifer has an umpires coach to keep him on his toes - David Levens, in Australia. We have constant Skype calls, talking about umpiring, going through various scenarios. It is about educating yourself.Reifers first job in international cricket was as a television umpire, in the first T20I in Florida. I was well prepared. With India playing, it was a non-DRS series. So it was basically about what I was doing from the time I stood in the first-class panel. He was coming in fresh off a stint in the Caribbean Premier League, where he had been a television umpire in six games.Under the Umpires Exchange Programme, Reifer officiated in England in 2013, followed a year later by Bangladesh. He is now looking forward to getting DRS-certified, following the pathway set by the ICC.His ultimate goal is to be on the Elite Panel, but he is in no hurry, looking to test himself thoroughly at the lower levels before progressing to the highest. Members of the Elite Panel always stress the importance of being patient, working hard and doing the things that you are accustomed to doing at lower levels of cricket and not letting the moment get the better of you, not thinking too far ahead or behind, he says.I am hoping with some good performances I can progress quickly, but really and truly I am just happy to be where I am at this point. Wholesale Shoes Cheap Free Shipping . Now, with Game 6 set for Fenway Park and an 8:07 p.m. ET first pitch, the Detroit Tigers face the unenviable task of having to beat the Boston Red Sox twice, on the road, to advance to the World Series. Wholesale Mens Shoes . The winner Saturday will remain in the elite 10-team field next year. 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Afghanistan 178 for 6 (Shahzad 84) beat Scotland 132 (Wallace 33, Nabi 3-26) by 78 runs (D/L method)Scorecard and ball-by-ball detailsMohammad Shahzad produced his fifth ODI fifty for Afghanistan, a typically belligerent knock, to set up a 78-run win via the Duckworth-Lewis method over Scotland at The Grange on Wednesday afternoon. In another stop-start day of cricket, Afghanistan made the most of Shahzads excellent foundation and eventually sauntered home despite an audacious early reply from the hosts in pursuit of an adjusted DLS target of 211 in 36 overs.Shahzad reached his half-century off 55 balls and eventually finished with 84 off 91 balls, including eight fours and two sixes, to set up a total of 178 for 6 in 37.2 overs prior to a three-hour, ten-minute rain delay. Shahzad went after all the Scotland bowlers including Safyaan Sharif - who bowled a mostly tidy opening spell of 0 for 24 in eight overs, with two maidens - thrice striking him over midwicket for boundaries. In the 15th over, he launched Ruaidhri Smiths full length over mid-on for both of his sixes.The opener offered one chance to Con de Lange, whose left-arm spin kept Afghanistans lineup harnessed throughout the middle overs after the loss of Noor Ali Zadran and Javed Ahmadi. Shahzad tried to break free of the pressure on 60 and skipped down the pitch to loft de Lange but Brad Wheal spilled a simple chance at long-on, denying de Lange a deserved wicket on a day he finished with 0 for 16 in six. Shahzad fell to Smith in the end, a slower ball fooling the batsman. Shahzad couldnt keep his hands back long enough on the shot and a toe-edge was snapped up by Cross for the first of Wheals two wickets.Shahzads dismissal swelled Scotlands momentum in the field, which had begun to build with the wicket of Mondays centurion Rahmat Shah for 26, taken at mid-off by Craig Wallace off Sharif one over prior to the fall of Shahzad. Alasdair Evans, who had earlier claimed the wicket of Noor Ali, removed captain Asghar Stanikzai with a bouncer fended awkwardly to Richie Berrington at backward point. Najibullah Zadran then miscued a drive to mid-off for Wheals second wicket and Afghanistan had stumbled from 131 for 2 in the 29th over to 171 for 6 in the 37th. The rains came six balls later and the players sat for 190 minutes before play resumed with Scotland pursuing the adjusted target score.The first seven overs of the Scotland chase were a thrill a minute as Craig Wallace, batting for the first time in ODIs in his third match, fearlessly charged the Afghanistan attack.dddddddddddd Undeterred by the second-ball dismissal of Kyle Coetzer, caught at slip, Wallace declared his intentions in the first over, going down on one knee to slog-sweep the 140kph pace of Dawlat Zadran over deep square leg for six. In Dawlats next over, he missed attempting the same shot and absorbed a nasty blow on the right shoulder but continued his crusade. In the fourth, Wallace hooked Shapoor Zadran for six and drove him to the cover rope to knock him out of the attack.Cross then set about doing the same to Dawlat, cracking him over backward point before a pulled six over midwicket took the score to 46 for 1 in five overs. Mohammad Nabi was brought on in the sixth and should have had Wallace first ball after a charge down the pitch went awry but Shahzad fluffed a simple stumping on 21. The next two balls were struck for four and six by Wallace before Nabi ended the furious stand at 58 runs, getting Cross caught on the midwicket boundary by Najibullah Zadran for 24.Legspinner Rashid Khan was then brought on from the Pavilion End and Wallaces stay ended for 33 courtesy an athletic return catch to swing momentum Afghanistans way. Shapoor eventually returned in the 13th to claim captain Preston Mommsen, who hooked a bouncer straight to Rashid at long leg for 13. Mommsens wicket crucially put Afghanistan ahead on D/L calculations for the first time and with rain threatening to come back at any moment, that advantage was further cemented three balls after drinks when Richie Berrington was given leg before to Nabi for 19 after missing a sweep.Michael Leask was stumped for Nabis third wicket before Shapoor bowled Sharif with a full delivery to take his second. Ruaidhri Smith drove Dawlat to Rashid in the covers to make it 122 for 8 as the serious challenge Scotland gave Afghanistan through most of the day became obscured by the flurry of wickets. A trio of lbw shouts from Rashid in the 27th over finally bore fruit with Evans trapped on the back leg before de Lange holed out to mid-on off Mirwais Ashraf to end the match, Scotland all out for 132 in 27.1 overs.Afghanistan now head to Belfast to take on Ireland in the first of five ODIs starting July 10. Scotlands next action comes against UAE in August with a four-day Intercontinental Cup match followed by two ODIs in Aberdeen. ' ' '