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10 Best Cricket Umpires of All Time in History

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10 Best Cricket Umpires

Declaring anyone out of the pitch or giving him a ‘sixer': it is all in the hand of the man who stands behind the wickets at bowler’s end. Without having any doubt, they are the ones maintaining peace and gameplay according to the rules of cricket. As they are also human beings, some misjudgments also come from their sides, which, accordingly, put any team in a tough situation, even when they are very close to their winning ceremony. Irrespective of those wrong decisions which are very less in number, they are the symbol of justice for any team on the ground, without which, the match itself will be a misery. And here is the list of 10 best Cricket umpires of all time in History-

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1. Steve Bucknor
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.
2. Dickie Bird
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. Dickie’s 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.
3. David Shepherd
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 Test at Old Trafford, Manchester. An interesting fact about David Shepherd was, he always raised his leg whenever any score would reach 111. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June 2005, and the most for any English umpire. He also umpired in 172 ODIs, including three consecutive World Cup finals in 1996, 1999 and 2003.David married his longtime girlfriend in 2008. However, a year later he expired due to lung cancer.
4. Simon Taufel
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 club’s 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 a back injury. Taufel made his internatio
5. Aleem Dar
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 2000. Two years later, he was selected into ICC’s elite panel of umpires
6. Billy Bowden
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.
7. Daryl Harper
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. H
8. Rudi Koertzen
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,
9. Darrell Hair
10. Tony Hill
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