"Dickie Bird Harold Dennis ""Dickie"" Bird, (born 19 April 1933, Staincross, West Riding of Yorkshire, England) is a retired English international cricket umpire. In February 2014, Yorkshire announced that Bird is to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March. The son of a miner, he gained the nickname 'Dickie' at school. He lives in the South Yorkshire village of Staincross. Bird failed his 11-plus and went to Raley Secondary Modern School, leaving in 1948 at the age of 15. For a while, he worked at a coal mine on the surface, but"
"London. In 1931 Bird married stage actress Joyce Barbour in London. He died in Northwood, Middlesex in 1979 aged 85. Richard Bird (actor) Richard Bird (4 Apr 1895 - December, 1979) was an English actor and director of stage and screen. Born George, Bird took the stage name Richard Bird after being nicknamed ""Dickie"" by his theatre colleagues. After working in a newspaper office for a year he made his stage debut as a member of the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1917. He went on to appear on both the London and American stage, making his film debut in some"
"1953. Dick French Richard Allan (Dick) French (born 7 August 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian Test cricket match umpire. He umpired 19 Test matches between 1977 and 1987. His first match was between Australia and India at Perth on 16 December to 21 December 1977, won by Australia by 2 wickets with Tony Mann becoming the first Australian night-watchman to score a century, and the 41-year-old Bob Simpson scoring his 1st century for 10 years, having come out of retirement to lead an Australian team depleted by defections to World Series Cricket. His partner was Robin"
"Dominic Bird Dominic Bird (born 9 April 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a lock for Canterbury in the Mitre 10 Cup and for the Chiefs in Super Rugby Bird has previously played for the Crusaders and has also been capped for the All Blacks. Bird was educated at Central Hawkes Bay College debut for the 1st xv in 2007 went on to captain the side in 2008 in a historic victory over Hastings Boys High school alongside other key players the likes of Bredon Edmonds (NZ Maori), Mua Sala (Spain) and Andrew Burne (Napier"
"Dick French Richard Allan (Dick) French (born 7 August 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian Test cricket match umpire. He umpired 19 Test matches between 1977 and 1987. His first match was between Australia and India at Perth on 16 December to 21 December 1977, won by Australia by 2 wickets with Tony Mann becoming the first Australian night-watchman to score a century, and the 41-year-old Bob Simpson scoring his 1st century for 10 years, having come out of retirement to lead an Australian team depleted by defections to World Series Cricket. His partner was Robin Bailhache."
"Dickie Lloyd Richard Averill Lloyd (4 August 1891 in County Tyrone, Ireland – 23 December 1950 in Belfast, Northern Ireland) known as Dickie Lloyd was an Irish cricketer and rugby union player. At cricket, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler who played two first-class matches for the Ireland cricket team, also playing for Lancashire. In rugby union, he was a fly-half who played 19 times for the Ireland national rugby union team, scoring 72 points, and was regarded as one of the best goal kickers of the time. He is rated by his school, Portora Royal"
"Frederick Bird Rev. Frederick Nash Bird (13 December 1875 – 3 March 1965) was an English cricketer. Bird was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Framlingham, Suffolk. Bird first played county cricket for Buckinghamshire, making his debut for the county in the 1896 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. He continued to play Minor counties cricket for Buckinghamshire until 1907, in which time he made 46 appearances for the county. It was in 1899 that he made his first-class debut for Gloucestershire against Warwickshire in the County Championship. He played first-class cricket for Warwickshire on"
"All Blacks. Bird started for the All Blacks against a French XV on 14 November and was not subbed off, with the All Blacks winning 28-23. Dominic Bird Dominic Bird (born 9 April 1991) is a New Zealand rugby union player who plays as a lock for Canterbury in the Mitre 10 Cup and for the Chiefs in Super Rugby Bird has previously played for the Crusaders and has also been capped for the All Blacks. Bird was educated at Central Hawkes Bay College debut for the 1st xv in 2007 went on to captain the side in 2008 in"
"a batsman for Yorkshire and Leicestershire in 93 matches, mostly in the English County Championship. After his county career, he coached and played league cricket before becoming an umpire. He stood in his first county game in 1970. Three years later, he officiated at his first Test match, England v New Zealand at Headingley in Leeds. The other umpire was Charlie Eliott as England won by an innings and one run. Bird was to umpire again twice more that summer, in the second and third tests of the tour by the West Indies - both of which proved eventful: in"
"represented in the Minor Counties Championship from 1910 to 1914. Following the war he played for Devon in the same competition from 1920 to 1925. Outside of cricket he was a Reverend. He later died in Chichester, Sussex on 3 March 1965. Frederick Bird Rev. Frederick Nash Bird (13 December 1875 – 3 March 1965) was an English cricketer. Bird was a right-handed batsman who bowled right-arm medium pace. He was born in Framlingham, Suffolk. Bird first played county cricket for Buckinghamshire, making his debut for the county in the 1896 Minor Counties Championship against Hertfordshire. He continued to play"
"Richard Bird (actor) Richard Bird (4 Apr 1895 - December, 1979) was an English actor and director of stage and screen. Born George, Bird took the stage name Richard Bird after being nicknamed ""Dickie"" by his theatre colleagues. After working in a newspaper office for a year he made his stage debut as a member of the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1917. He went on to appear on both the London and American stage, making his film debut in some silent shorts during 1919. He appeared in films throughout the 1930s and 1940s, playing the lead roles in ""The Warren"
"Ronald Bird Ronald Ernest Bird, sometimes known as Ronnie, (4 April 1915 – 20 February 1985) was an English cricketer who played 195 first-class matches in the years after the Second World War. 190 of these were for Worcestershire, while the other five were for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He captained Worcestershire between 1952 and 1954, though he had acted as such on many occasions during the previous two seasons when official captain Bob Wyatt was unavailable. He usually batted at number four, while his fast-medium bowling was of the occasional variety: he never took a season's tally of wickets"
"1979, Shepherd decided against becoming a coach, and decided to become an umpire instead. He began his second career in cricket, and the one which was to make him world-famous, when he was appointed as a first-class umpire in 1981. Quickly recognised as being one of the fairest-minded and most able officials in the game, within two years he was part of the umpiring panel for the 1983 World Cup, and within four he was standing in his first Test: the fourth Test of the 1985 Ashes series at Old Trafford. Standing with him in this test was Dickie Bird."
"Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge Lieutenant-colonel Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge (21 July 1879 – 28 August 1969) known as """"The Bird"""" or """"Birdie"""", was a Welsh born British Army officer and international rugby union player who was capped for South Africa and was a member of the Barbarians in that side's first international, played against Wales in 1915. He was also the founder of the Army Rugby Union. Joseph Edward Crawshay Partridge was born 21 July 1879 in Llanthewy Court, Monmouth, near Abergavenny. He was the eldest son of Joseph Partridge (born Beaufort House, Beaufort, Monmouth 1843) and his wife Jessie"
"tears. His eyes had to clear quickly, though, because two minutes later he had to give England captain Mike Atherton out LBW in the first over. Two years later, in 1998, he stood in his last county match. Bird umpired in 66 Test matches (at the time a world record) and 69 One Day Internationals including 3 World Cup Finals. He came out of retirement in January 2007 to umpire in the XXXX Gold Beach Cricket Tri-Nations series involving cricketing legends from England, the West Indies and Australia, which partly took place at Scarborough Beach in Perth, Western Australia, Australia."
"Richard Davis (cricketer) Richard Peter Davis (18 March 1966 – 29 December 2003), also known as Dickie Davis, was an English cricketer. Davis was a right-handed batsman who bowled slow left-arm orthodox. He was born at Westbrook, Kent. Davis grew up in East Kent and was educated firstly at King Ethelbert School in Birchington-on-Sea and later at Thanet Technical College on the Isle of Thanet. He was coached at county level throughout his life, eventually making his first-class cricket debut for Kent in 1986 against Warwickshire. Despite making his first-class debut for the county at the age of just 20,"
"Morice Bird Morice Carlos Bird (25 March 1888, in St Michael's Hamlet, Liverpool, Lancashire – 9 December 1933, in Broadstone, Dorset) was an English cricketer who played in 10 Tests from 1910 to 1914, all of them in South Africa. Bird's fame as a cricketer in the years before the First World War rested more on his deeds as a schoolboy than on his prowess as a county or Test player. In 1907, as captain of the Harrow School team, he scored two centuries in the annual match at Lord's against Eton College that was one of the social highlights"
"Billy Doctrove Billy Raymond Doctrove (born 3 July 1955 in Marigot, Dominica) is a former international football referee, but is best known as an international cricket umpire. During his time as a referee Doctrove took charge of several international matches, including a World Cup qualifier between Guyana and Grenada in 1996. Despite retiring from international refereeing in 1997 he is still a keen follower of world and English football, supporting Liverpool F.C. and being nicknamed Toshack, after the ex-Liverpool striker. He is also President of the Dominican Football Referees Association, and President of the Windward Islands Cricket Umpires Association. After"
"17th of January 2018 in a match between Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe during the 2017–18 Bangladesh Tri-Nation Series, David Boon officiated in his 100th ODI as a match referee and became only the 12th person to serve as a match referee in 100 One Day International cricket matches. The son of Clarrie and Lesley, David Boon was born in the Northern Tasmanian city of Launceston on 29 December 1960. His younger sister Vanessa was born in 1964. His father Clarrie worked in a newsagency in Launceston, while his mother Lesley represented Australia at hockey before working with Clarrie at the"
"Guinea, starting at five-eighth in the 48–8 win in Port Moresby. Jack Bird Jack Bird (born 20 March 1995) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. Bird primarily plays as a centre, five-eighth and lock but is capable of playing any position. Bird is a New South Wales State of Origin, Country Origin, Prime Minister's XIII and Indigenous All Stars representative. He was part of the Cronulla team that won their maiden premiership title in the 2016 season. Bird was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia and is of Indigenous"
"Walter Bird (cricketer) Walter Bird (22 July 1845 – 27 July 1921) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 1880. He was born at Crouch Hall, Hornsey, Middlesex. Bird made one first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Hampshire in 1880 at Day's Ground, Southampton. In the match, which Hampshire won by an innings and 38 runs, Bird was dismissed for 13 runs by Frederick Blundell in the MCC first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Frederick Jellicoe for a duck. He died at Upperton, Sussex on 27 July 1921. His brother George, and"
"David Shepherd (umpire) David Robert Shepherd (27 December 1940 – 27 October 2009) was a first-class cricketer who played county cricket for Gloucestershire, and later became one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June 2005, the most for any English umpire. He also umpired 172 ODIs, including three consecutive World Cup finals in 1996, 1999 and 2003 Shepherd was born in Bideford in Devon. His father Herbert was a sub-postmaster, having earlier worked in the Merchant Navy. His father had played cricket and rugby in his youth, and became"
"Jack Bird Jack Bird (born 20 March 1995) is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. Bird primarily plays as a centre, five-eighth and lock but is capable of playing any position. Bird is a New South Wales State of Origin, Country Origin, Prime Minister's XIII and Indigenous All Stars representative. He was part of the Cronulla team that won their maiden premiership title in the 2016 season. Bird was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia and is of Indigenous Australian descent. He played his junior rugby league for the Berkeley"
"West Indies' 17-run win in the inaugural Cricket World Cup. A number of players and umpires had items of their playing outfits ""souvenired"" by the crowd. A year later, Bird was a passenger on a bus in South London, when he noticed the conductor was wearing a white hat very similar to the one he favoured, and asked the conductor where he obtained it from. ""Man, haven't you heard of Mr Dickie Bird,"" he replied. ""This is one of his hats. I took it off his head at the World Cup final... we all ran onto the field and I"
"Steve Bucknor Stephen Anthony ""Steve"" Bucknor, OJ (born 31 May 1946 in Montego Bay, Jamaica) is a former international cricket umpire. Bucknor umpired in a record 128 Test matches between 1989 and 2009, and also umpired in 181 One Day Internationals during this period, including five consecutive Cricket World Cup finals from 1992 to 2007. He was widely known for his long deliberations before making decisions, for which he earned the nickname ""Slow Death"". Before becoming an umpire, he was a football player and referee, a high school mathematics teacher and a sports coach. In October 2007, he was awarded"
"the second test at Edgbaston, Bird had to umpire from the bowler's end at both ends for couple of overs, with a substitute umpire at square leg, when Arthur Fagg refused to continue in protest against the conduct of the West Indian players. And then at Lords, play was interrupted by an IRA bomb scare (later found out to be a hoax). While the crowd cleared out of the ground in record time, Bird and the players sat down in the centre of the pitch, knowing there was no bomb there. He gained a reputation for stopping play for weather,"
"and 1913. He also played a match against South Africa in November 1912. He played just twice in the 1914 Five Nations, against England and France, returning after the war to play twice in the 1920 tournament, again against England and France. He was later an international referee. In his 19 matches for Ireland, he scored two tries, 16 conversions, seven drop goals and three penalties, for a total of 72 points under the current point scoring system, which was different when Lloyd played. Dickie Lloyd Richard Averill Lloyd (4 August 1891 in County Tyrone, Ireland – 23 December 1950"
"first innings against Gloucestershire. He appeared a couple of times for the Second XI in 1959, then after leaving cricket represented Worcestershire at both squash and tennis. Ronald Bird Ronald Ernest Bird, sometimes known as Ronnie, (4 April 1915 – 20 February 1985) was an English cricketer who played 195 first-class matches in the years after the Second World War. 190 of these were for Worcestershire, while the other five were for Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). He captained Worcestershire between 1952 and 1954, though he had acted as such on many occasions during the previous two seasons when official captain"
"nephews' Austin and Morice were all first-class cricketers, with Morice playing Test cricket for England. Walter Bird (cricketer) Walter Bird (22 July 1845 – 27 July 1921) was an English cricketer who played first-class cricket in 1880. He was born at Crouch Hall, Hornsey, Middlesex. Bird made one first-class appearance for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Hampshire in 1880 at Day's Ground, Southampton. In the match, which Hampshire won by an innings and 38 runs, Bird was dismissed for 13 runs by Frederick Blundell in the MCC first-innings, while in their second-innings he was dismissed by Frederick Jellicoe for"
"Udaya Wickramasinghe Wickrama Arachchige Udaya Wickramasinghe (12 August 1939 – 12 April 2010) was a Sri Lankan cricket umpire. Wickramasinghe was born in Matugama in Sri Lanka. He was educated at St Peter's College and Dharmapala College, and worked as an Immigration Officer in the Immigration Department in Sri Lanka. His cricket umpiring career began in 1969 in Sri Lankan domestic cricket. He served as an umpire in international cricket from 1987 to 1998. He was the first overseas umpire to qualify as an official instructor of the Association of Cricket Umpires and Scorers in England in 1988. He stood"
"up an umpire high performance role with Cricket Australia. Ric Evans Richard James Evans (born 20 November 1942) was an Australian Test cricket match umpire, from Western Australia. He umpired 3 Test matches between 1989 and 1990. His first match was between Australia and the West Indies at Adelaide on 3 February to 7 February 1989, a drawn match on a batting pitch too good for a result. Dean Jones scored 216 in Australia’s first innings of 515, and Mike Whitney took 7/89 in the West Indies’ reply. Evans’ partner, as in all his matches, was Peter McConnell. Evans’ last"
"Richard Lockwood Richard Evison Lockwood (11 November 1867 – 10 November 1915), also known by the nicknames of ""Dicky"", and ""Dickie"", was a rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1880s, 1890s and 1900s. He played representative level rugby union (RU) for England from 1887 to 1894, and was captain in January and February 1894, and Yorkshire, and at club level for Dewsbury and Heckmondwike, as a Three-quarter, and club level rugby league (RL) for Wakefield Trinity (Heritage № 33), as a Forward, e.g. front row, back row, or lock. Prior to 3 September 1898, Dewsbury"
"Dai Davies (cricketer) David ""Dai"" Davies (26 August 1896 – 16 July 1976) was a first-class cricketer and Test match umpire. Davies was born in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire. He worked in the steelworks in his home town, playing club cricket for Llanelli and some cricket for Carmarthenshire. He made his first-class debut for Glamorgan in Swansea in 1923, when already in his late twenties, scoring 58 and 51 with the bat and taking four wickets against Northamptonshire. Over the course of a 16-year professional career, he scored more than 15,000 runs for the county, including 16 hundreds, in 421 first-class games."