6 May, 2018
Aaqil Jamaldeen
Former Royal College fly-half Aaqil Jamaldeen (22) has being chosen by the Asian Rugby Football Union as an assistant referee for the Asian Games to be held in Indonesia in August this year.
He is also in the Asian Rugby Football Union Panel C for the year. Jamaldeen earlier underwent a training programme in the UK and was picked to referee the Durham Schools final in 2017.
This year he refereed in the Malaysian Sevens and followed a workshop in Singapore. He is presently a World Rugby Qualified Level 2 match official.
Jamaldeen took to the whistle in 2015 at the age of 19 following in the footsteps of his father Nizam Jamaldeen.