Former top umpire Koertzen dies in motor accident

Former international cricket umpire Rudi Koertzen died on Tuesday in a car accident. Koertzen, 73, was on the International Cricket Council’s elite panel of umpires for eight years and officiated in 331 matches, a record at the time of his retirement in 2010 that has since been surpassed by Pakistan’s Aleem Dar. Koertzen died while driving from Cape Town after a golf weekend to Despatch in Eastern Cape, where he lived with his family.