1. Stephen Anthony Bucknor, famously known as Steve Bucknor, was one of the most experienced umpires who was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in 1946. Before he started his umpiring career, he was a high school mathematics teacher and sports coach. Bucknor was initially a football referee before he moved to cricket at the age of 45. His first test match as an umpire was in the year 1989 in a test between West Indies and India. He also officiated at his .....
2. Harold Dennis Bird, better known as Dickie Bird, was born on April 19, 1933 in Yorkshire. He was a school dropout and worked in a coal mine in his early days. Dickies first passion was football, which he had to stop playing after suffering an injury. He then took to cricket and started playing county cricket in his early career in Barnsley. Later, he was signed up with his home county, Yorkshire. Dickie Bird first officiated at a test match betwe .....
3. David Shepherd was born in Bideford in Devon on December 27, 1940. He started his career as a first class cricketer who played county cricket for Gloucestershire for 14 years as a middle order batsman. Following his county career, Shepherd qualified for umpiring in 1981 and made a debut as an umpire in the 1983 World Cup in England, when Pakistan played Sri Lanka at Swansea. His debut test as an umpire was in the 1985 Ashes Series, the fourth Tes .....
4. Simon James Arthur Taufel or Simon Taufel was born on 21 January 1971 in St Leonards, New South Wales. Before starting his umpiring journey, Taufel played as a fast medium bowler for Cammeray Cricket Club in the Northern Suburbs Cricket Association. After the 1990 91 season, he won the clubs best and fairest player award, as he was the leading wicket taker and had the lowest bowling average in the association. His bowling career was cut short by .....
5. Aleem Sarwar Dar, mostly known as Aleem Dar, was born in the year 1968 in Pakistan. Before he started his career as an umpire, he was a Pakistani first class cricketer, and he had played for Allied Bank, Gujranwala Cricket Association, Lahore, and Pakistan Railways as a right handed batsman and a leg break bowler. He began his journey as an international umpire at the age of just 30 when he debuted in a match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 200 .....
6. Brent Fraser Bowden or Billy Bowden was born in the year 1963 in Henderson, New Zealand. He has officiated at three ICC World Cup events and was the reserve umpire in the final of both the ICC 2007 and the ICC World T20 2007. His first ODI as an umpire was in 1995 between New Zealand and Sri Lanka and then he made his test debut as an umpire in 2000 between New Zealand and Australia. His career is decorated with 77 ODIs and 184 tests, along with .....
7. Daryl John Harper, also known as Daryl Harper, was born in the year 1951 in Australia. He attended Norwood High School before he started as a primary school teacher. He had a brief career as an Australian football referee before an injury forced him to quit. He began his umpiring career in the year 1983 and was the first umpire from Australia to be selected into the Elite Umpires Panel of the ICC on 2002, and continued as an elite umpire till 201 .....
8. Rudolf Eric Koertzen, famously known as Rudi Koertzen, was born in Knysna in the Western Cape, South Africa in the year 1949. A cricket enthusiast since his childhood, Koertzen played league cricket while working for South African Railways. For a start, he became an umpire officiating at domestic games in the year 1981. Rudi then broke into the international arena in the year 1992, when he umpired in his first ODI between South Africa and India. .....
9. Darrell Bruce Hair, born on 1952 in Mudgee, New South Wales, is also famously known as Darrell Hair. Hair umpired in his first Test match in January 1992, between Australia and India in Adelaide. In a 1995 match between Australia and Sri Lanka in Melbourne, he no balled Muttiah Muralitharan seven times in three overs for throwing. He had officiated at 78 International tests with 139 ODIs. On the fourth day of the fourth Test between England and P .....
10. Anthony Lloyd Hill, better known as Tony Hill, was born in 1951 in Auckland, New Zealand. His debuted as an umpire in an ODI between New Zealand and Zimbabwe at Napier in March 1998 and he officiated at his first test match in December 2001 between New Zealand and Bangladesh at Hamilton. During his time on the International Umpire Panel, ICC had appointed Hill to matches away from New Zealand as a neutral umpire for supporting the Elite Panel, an .....
11. Best known as Gunner by his colleagues and people around him, Ian Gould was born in England in the year 1957. He has gone on to represent England as an international umpire and has been quite successful at the high levels. Gould has also represented the English team that used his services of being a left handed wicket keeper batsman. Interestingly, Ian Gould has had amazing football connections too. He has represented one of Englands best clubs A .....
12. He was part of Sri Lankas national team for over a decade.
He was a member of Sri Lankas ICC CWC 1996 winning team.
He retired from competitive cricket in 2006 to pursue a career in umpiring.
He was Sri Lankas youngest ever international umpire on his debut in an ODI in 2009.
He also officiated in the ICC CWC 2011.
The all rounder is also qualified to be a coach.
In May 2011 he was selected for the Elite Umpires Panel .....
13. Played grade cricket for West Torrens CC in Adelaide.
He made his ODI debut as an umpire in 1992.
Has officiated at ICC CWC 2007 and 2011, ICC U19 CWC 2006 and 2008, ICC World T20 2007 and ICC Womens World Cup 2009.
When not umpiring, he works as a human resource consultant. .....
14. Played in 53 first class games between 1988 1996 in South Africa.
He was inducted into the ICCs Emirates International Panel of Umpires in August 2008 and was promoted to the ICC Emirates Elite Umpire Panel in 2010.
His T20I debut as an umpire was in 2006.
Served as an umpire in the ICC WT20 2009 and 2010, as well as ICC CWC 2011. .....
15. He has played domestic cricket for Worcestershire, Derbyshire and Natal.
He was appointed to the ECB full list of first class umpires for the 2006 English cricket season.
He was promoted to the ICC International list on November 2009.
Appointed to the ICC Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in 2013. .....
16. He is a former first class cricketer who played 33 matches for Yorkshire and Middlesex.
He was a left handed opener making seven half centuries and one century.
The ECB added him to their list of umpires in 2006.
He was one of the umpires at the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
In May 2011 he was selected for the Elite Umpires Panel. .....
17. He was a left hand batsman and off spinner with Kent during the 1990s.
He started umpiring in 2000, joining the English first class panel in 2002.
He stood in the first Twenty20 international in England in 2005.
He was inducted into the ICCs Emirates International Panel of Umpires in 2006.
He officiated at the ICC CWC 2011. .....
18. He played eight first class matches for Queensland from 1991 1993 as a lower order right hand batsman and leg break and googly bowler.
Became a first class umpire in November 2001.
Was inducted into the ICCs Emirates International Panel of Umpires in 2007 08.
Appointed to the ICC Emirates Elite Panel of ICC Umpires in 2012. .....
19. Born: Box Hill, Victoria, Australia
He was part of Australias victorious 1999 World Cup team.
He made his first class umpiring debut in the 2004 2005 season after first umpiring in Melbourne grade cricket in 2002.
He joined the Cricket Australia National Umpires Panel in the 2005 2006 season.
He made his international umpiring debut in a ODI on February 2009. .....
20. He has played domestic cricket for New South Wales and Tasmania.
After his playing career ended, he turned to umpiring and was promoted to the ICCs Emirates International Panel of Umpires in 2010.
He made his ODI and T20I debut in 2009 in the series between Australia and South Africa played in Australia.
Umpired at the ICC WT20 2009 and 2010, as well as ICC CWC 2011. .....
21. A champion off spinner in his heydays, Venkat, as he was fondly called, went on to become an established cricket umpire after his playing days. Venkats claim to fame was his quick decision making and an analytical mind. A bowler of repute himself, he translated it while making his calls.A relatively latecomer into the field, Venkat stood in his first match, an India v England ODI in 1993, Venkat was a part of the Elite panel right until his retir .....
22. He was born in Bangalore. He was an umpire in first class cricket from 1956 to 1981. He umpired the final of the Ranji Trophy the four times 1963 4, 1966 7, 1970 1, 1975 6 and also the finals of the Duleep Trophy four times 1964 65, and three years running, 1971 2, 1972 3, and 1973 4.He stood in 17 Test matches between 1960 and 1979, setting an Indian record subsequently equaled by Swaroop Kishen in 1984 and then surpassed by VK Ramaswamy 2 .....
23. Narayan Sane 4 February 1909 10 April 2002 was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in two Test matches in 1960.Sane was also a first class cricketer. He made one appearance for Maharashtra the played seven matches for the Central Provinces and Berar cricket team. .....
24. Javed Akhtar born November 21, 1940 in Delhi, India is a former Pakistani cricketer who played in one Test in 1962. An off spinner, he had success at first class level, taking his wickets at an average of 18.17, but struggled in his only Test, failing to take a wicket.He later became an umpire, standing in 18 Tests and 40 ODIs from 1980 to 1999. .....
25. Brian Leslie Aldridge QSM born 30 June 1940 in Christchurch, New Zealand is a retired professional cricket player and professional cricket umpire, and the National Umpiring Manager for New Zealand cricket. He was one of the umpires in the 1992 Cricket World Cup final between England and Pakistan.Aldridge was awarded the Queens Service Medal in the 2012 New Year Honours, for services to cricket administration.He stood in 26 Test matches and 45 ODI .....
26. George Allsop 4 January 1864 27 March 1927 played first class cricket for Transvaal between 1890 91 and 1897 98, and also stood as an umpire in one cricket Test match in 1895 96.He was born at Houghton, Hampshire, England and died at Johannesburg, South Africa. .....
27. Amiesh Maheshbhai Saheba born 15 November 1959 in Ahmedabad is an Indian cricket umpire and former cricketer. He played as a batsman for Gujarat.He stood in his first Test match as an umpire on 12 Dec 2008. He has officiated in 51 One Day Internationals, 4 Twenty20s and 3 Test Matches. .....
28. Herbert George Baldwin was a cricketer and test match umpire.Born in 1893 in Hampshire, Baldwin played 33 games for Surrey as a right handed batsman and occasional leg break bowler with modest returns, although he was a noted fielder in the covers.He umpired in first class cricket for nearly three decades, including nine Tests after the war up until 1953. He called 19 no balls in 3 overs in Australias match against Worcestershire in 1938 when fas .....
29. S. R. Bose born 1 November 1930 is a former Indian cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, India vs. Pakistan, in 1983 and two ODI games between 1983 and 1984. .....
30. Noshirvan Nagarwala 10 October 1909 10 September 1998 was an Indian cricket umpire. He stood in five Test matches between 1952 and 1960.In the 1930s, Nagarwala appeared in 11 first class matches as a player, with Maharashtra, Parsees and Dr HD Kangas Parsees XI. .....
