R.I.P. 'Dickie' Bird

[Cleoriff]

Harold “Dickie” Bird, cricket’s most famous umpire and one of the most colourful characters in the game, has died at the age of 92.

RIP Dickie x

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2025/09/23/dickie-bird-dies-aged-92/ 

[Cleoriff]

Tributes :

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c36k42961ept 

[pgn]

All out for 92. "The bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey" RIP Dickie.

[Oxonian]

RIP a colourful character :-

Special event marking 50 years since Buxton’s famous ‘Snow Game’ | Visit Buxton

https://www.visitbuxton.co.uk/buxton-cricket-club-snow-game-50-anniversary/

[Oxonian]

And in a more serious moment, he correctly gave Graham Gooch out "handled the ball" in an Ashes test at Old Trafford in 1993 :-

Graham Gooch Out Handling the Ball 1993 First Test at Old Trafford

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph126DUK0r8