Aleem Dar, the Pakistan umpire and a senior figure on the ICC elite panel, is to be withdrawn on security grounds from England’s Test series in India starting next week. Dar’s absence means Kumar Dharmasena, whose misjudgments have been a feature of the series in Bangladesh, is likely to be named on the list today.

Dar has stood in 105 Tests, including the first two of England’s most recent tour of India and nine of the past 15 Ashes matches. Last year he was pulled out of umpiring one-day internationals between India and South Africa in Chennai and Mumbai, where right-wing political groups vie in their denunciations of Pakistani public figures visiting India. Members of the Shiv Sena party stormed the Indian cricket board offices