Virender Sharma

Virender Sharma (born 11 September 1971) is an Indian international umpire and former cricketer. He played in fifty first-class and forty List A matches for Himachal Pradesh between 1990 and 2006. Sharma stood as an umpire in the Twenty20 tour match between India A vs South Africa on 29 September 2015. In November 2016 during the Ranji Trophy match between Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh, Sharma was forced to stand at both ends for the entire day 2, after the other umpire Sam Nogajski was taken ill with food poisoning. The reserve umpire at the venue was not a member of the BCCI panel, which meant that he could only stand at square leg.