Ex-Ranji Trophy player-turned-international umpire Suresh Shastri called Pakistan umpire Asad Rauf, who succumbed to a cardiac arrest in Lahore on Wednesday night, as a fun-loving umpire.

“I umpired my first Test with Asad [Sri Lanka v Bangladesh at Colombo in 2007] and he never made me feel like a junior [Rauf had been an on-field umpire for 11 Tests before that]. He was a very relaxed personality and never let pressure get to him,” said Shastri, who played first-class cricket for Rajasthan, and Nirlon on the Mumbai club circuit.