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FA confirms dates and times for FA Cup semi-final ties at Wembley
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• Chelsea will face Aston Villa on 10 April with 5pm kick-off
• Portsmouth take on Fulham or Tottenham on 11 April from 4pmThe Football Association has confirmed the kick-off times and dates for next month's FA Cup semi-finals at Wembley.
The games had already been set for the weekend of 10-11 April, but the FA has now revealed when the ties will be played.
Chelsea's encounter with Aston Villa is the first semi-final and will take place on Saturday, 10 April at 5pm.
The weekend's other tie sees Portsmouth face Tottenham or Fulham – who will replay their quarter-final on 24 March following their goalless draw at Craven Cottage – with that game taking place on Sunday, 11 April at 4pm.
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Daryl Harper omitted from umpiring duties for World Twenty20
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• ICC dissatisfied with Australian's 'general performances'
• Insists decision not based on Graeme Smith not-out blunderThe elite umpire Daryl Harper will take no part in the ICC World Twenty20 after an International Cricket Council panel concluded his "general performances" did not merit selection.
The ICC, nonetheless, insisted in a statement this afternoon that Harper's absence is not a consequence of the Australian's part in the controversy over the decision review system which beset this year's Johannesburg Test between England and South Africa.
An inquiry remains ongoing following the decision not to give Graeme Smith out caught behind on review in an innings which saw the home captain go on to make a century and lead South Africa to a series-levelling victory.
The ICC's chief executives' committee is also to receive a report in Dubai on the "successful implementation of DRS in 13 Test matches in the last four months".
On Harper's failure to make the cut for the showpiece Twenty20 event, which starts in the Caribbean next month, today's ICC statement said: "This decision was taken by the selection panel for a number of general performance reasons. It must be categorically stated, however, that none of these reasons is related to his role as third umpire in the fourth Test between South Africa and England in Johannesburg earlier this year."
Those who are on the 13-strong list include all 10 of Harper's colleagues on the ICC's elite panel – joined by South Africa's Marais Erasmus, the Australian Rod Tucker and India's Shavir Tarapore.
England's Ian Gould is also among those who will be umpiring in the West Indies.
Full umpires list
Billy Bowden, Aleem Dar, Steve Davis, Billy Doctrove, Ian Gould, Tony Hill, Rudi Koertzen, Asoka de Silva, Simon Taufel, Asad Rauf, Marais Erasmus, Shavir Tarapore and Rod Tucker.
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