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Stephen Anthony Bucknor popularly known as Steve Bucknor was born in Montego Bay Jamaica on May 31 1946. He became a high school maths teacher and sports coach before going on to be one of Jamaica’s leading sports officials as an international football referee but more famously as an international cricket umpire. The...
Former Natal and Middlesex fast bowler Vincent van der Bijl has been appointed ICC Umpires and Referees manager as part of a major initiative designed to bolster the department and improve the overall standard of officiating at the elite level. Van der Bijl will work as part of the ICC Cricket Operations Department...
In an unprecedented decision we see that an elite panel umpire has been removed from a match list because of criticism and complaints about his performance. We have the spectacle of a professional umpire left isolated with no form of redress or rebuttal against those criticising him. The treatment of Steve Bucknor is...
AUSTRALIAN Steve Davis has been elevated to the International Cricket Council’s elite panel of umpires. Davis and Sri Lanka’s Asoka de Silva were promoted to increase the number on the panel from 10 to 12 in a move designed to ease the load on the leading umpires. Davis, 56, has stood in 11...
Umpires play an important role in cricket, and this role was formally acknowledged in 2003-04 when Cricket Australia and the state/territory cricket associations celebrated the Year of the Official. There are many opportunities to become involved in officiating at all levels of cricket. Contact your local state/territory cricket association for information on the...
Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire who was barred from standing in top-level cricket matches following a controversial abandoned Test between England and Pakistan, was on Tuesday reinstated as one of the game’s elite officials. Hair has not taken charge of a Test or a major international one-day match since he and his West Indian...
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