Simon Jones was a happy man after capping his comeback with the most prized wicket in the world, as West Indies closed on 311 for 9 on the opening day of the first Test in Jamaica. “It’s great to be back playing Test cricket,” said Jones. “Taking Brian Lara’s wicket was a great feeling. It’s what I’ve been waiting for for the last 16 months.”The wicket was a real confidence booster,” added Jones. “For the first two sessions I was very nervous, but I found my feet, relaxed more and just bowled. Nine wickets on the first day can’t be bad. The boys are happy. We all worked hard and you can’t ask for any more.”Lara was ambivalent about his side’s performance, but was full of praise for West Indies’ centurion, Devon Smith. “It was a see-saw day,” he admitted, “and is probably now evenly-matched. England were on top early on, we rallied, but the way we collapsed at the end was a bit disappointing.”But I’m happy for young Smith. I can see the starting of a long career. He and [Ryan] Hinds showed their quality and proved we have a good batting line up all the way to Ridley Jacobs at No. 7.””My century was a great feeling,” beamed Smith, who attributed his success to the work he had been doing with Sir Garry Sobers. “Someone in the top order had to stick around and I managed to do it. My work with Sir Garry before the game certainly helped me. He improved my technique and concentration, and that helped me today.”
Sunday, March 2, 2003::: The Greatest One-Day Innings Ever! Sachin Tendulkar has produced the most astonishing innings seen in 50-over cricket since the matches began, writes renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck in his review of the India-Pakistan match. Source: Rediff.comTendulkar’s treat No one on the planet save Tendulkar could have played like the little master did against Pakistan at Centurion on Saturday, writes former England all-rounder Vic Marks. Source:The Observer, UKPakistan needed another attacking bowler Former Pakistan skipper Imran Khan feels that Pakistan paid the price for not including an attacking bowler like Mohammad Sami in the starting line-up against India. Source: BBC World Cup prize money exempt from Income Tax Finance Minister Jaswant Singh has greeted India’s emphatic win over Pakistan by announcing that the prize money earned by the players at the World Cup will be exempt from Income Tax. Source: PTI, IndiaKing hit meant for McCullum It now emerges that the punch that floored Chris Cairns at a Durban night club was originally meant for New Zealand wicket-keeper Brendon McCullum. Source: The Stuff, NZRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Saturday, March 1, 2003::: Losing to India is far worse than not winning World Cup We don’t want to upset our fans. We have to win today, otherwise who knows what consequences will need to be paid, writes Shoaib Akhtar in his column. Source: The Guardian, UK When Sachin played for Pakistan India’s reigning deity, Sachin Tendulkar, stepped on to the international arena for the first time as a reserve fielder for a Pakistan XI! Source: Rediff.com‘Sickness’ rears its head as cricket fever peaks Most of the one million Indian expatriates and the 700,000 Pakistanis in the UAE are expected to “fall sick” and stay away from work on the day of the high-profile India-Pakistan match. Source: Gulf News, UAERead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Friday, February 28, 2003::: ‘Having a cricketer son has not changed our life’ On Wednesday, Ashish Nehra may have bowled as to the manner born, but his family are not deeply knowledgeable about cricket. His brother, in fact, only took young Ashish’s bowling seriously after he castled Ajay Jadeja in a local match! Source: Rediff.com Related CricInfo links: Ashish Nehra player pageFans bamboozled by Super Selector The Great Indian Cricket Fan has been cheated. Not with India’s loss to Australia, but a glitch in an online cricketing game, as participants of the ESPN-Star Super Selector contest were shocked when a technical glitch gave an unfair advantage to certain players. Source: The Indian Express, IndiaShane Warne assumes the role of scapegoat While Shane Warne has done wonders for the sale of diuretics in the overweight-blond-white male-smoking-beach bum market, he has done in his career through stupidity. “Stupid” is an often-used word in the Warne affair. When Ricky Ponting was asked if he thought Warne was guilty of naivete, he answered: “Yeah, that and stupidity.” Source: The Independent Online, South AfricaAustralian streak cannot last – Irani “There was no doubt who was one of the most sought-after guys in the England camp after our defeat against India. Malcolm Ashton, our scorer-cum-computer analyst, had been up half the night calculating our chances of reaching the Super Sixes…” writes Ronnie Irani. Source: The Guardian, UKRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Thursday, February 27, 2003::: South Africans grateful for Kenya’s win If one were to tell cricket fans in the Rainbow Nation that God was South African and that His other agent, apart from rain, was Kenya, they would most likely agree. Source: Allafrica.comBashful bowler catches fire On Indian cricket’s bad days, when the crowds take to the streets baying for blood, few think about burning an effigy of Ashish Nehra. He has rarely been touched by greatness, so his failures have been more easy to withstand. Things may be different from now on. Source: The Guardian, UKFallen idol faces his toughest year It must be quite a chastening experience for a superstar sportsman to be taken out of their pampered world, full of back slappers, $360-an-hour image makers and tummy-tickling television interviewers and sit down before three people who wipe all that rubbish to one side and interview them as if their name is John Smith. Source: The Brisbane Courier Mail, AustraliaWomen hit a boundary in the gentleman’s game Have Mandira Bedi and Co. got anything to do with it? One may never know, but this World Cup has definitely got the fair sex’s attention, with an estimated 2.2 crore women having watched the matches being played in South Africa on SET MAX and Doordarshan, the numbers increasing with each passing day. Source: The New Indian Express, IndiaRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Wednesday, February 26, 2003::: Bharats ready to take on Barmys at their own game On Wednesday at Durban, it will not just be the India and England cricketers who will be locking horns; in the stands the Bharat Army will be ready for a full-throated battle with the Barmy Army. Source: The Guardian, UKNews of transsexual at opening ceremony enrages Mugabe Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is reported to be enraged after discovering that Zimbabwe’s cricket team was led out into the Cricket World Cup’s opening ceremony by a transsexual. Source: PlanetOut The Luos, the backbone of Kenyan cricketIf the Kalenjin tribe from Kenya’s Rift Valley Province have made distance running their preserve, it is the Luos who have dominated their nation’s cricket. Source: thestaronlineCandidates in quandary to woo cricket fans in four Indian states Candidates contesting Wednesday’s assembly elections in India’s three north-eastern states of Meghalaya, Tripura, and Nagaland are in a quandary over ways to woo cricket-crazy fans to come and exercise their franchise. Source: Islamic Republic News Agency, IranMoms worry as India does better at World Cup India’s return to form at the World Cup has led to sleepless nights for mothers of students appearing for their career-making Class X and Class XII Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) examinations. Source: The Times of India, India Read anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Tuesday, February 25, 2003::: Access denied! Trying to catch the action live online at work? Unable to access CricInfo for a reason other than heavy traffic? Check with your office network administrator – he may be one of many who has been instructed to block sites during the World Cup. Source: Rediff.com Article URL sent in by Padma ([email protected])Shock win almost unnoticed at home The way all of Kenya reacted, one would think that they had merely beaten a French Second XI in a friendly rather than the mighty Sri Lankan lions in a World Cup match. Source: The Star, South AfricaBowled over by cricket stupidity Whoever felt that an evening on the turps at a Durban nightspot was a sound idea for our national cricket side could even put the crass stupidity of Shane Warne and the doddering incompetence of the game’s governing body in the summer shade. Source: Stuff, New ZealandJohn Davison is Mr February A nation hitherto obsessed only with sports on ice suddenly wakes up forcibly as one of its prodigal sons slams the fastest century in World Cup cricket.Source: The Globe and Mail, CanadaPepsico to review Warne contract What happens when you cast a cricketing superstar in an advert, only to have him chucked out of the premier tournament of the sport on drug-related grounds? Pepsico tries to figure out the dilemma. Source: Business Line, IndiaRead anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.Monday, February 24, 2003::: New Zealand Players pull covers over wild night out New Zealand players are refusing to comment about the Durban night-club incident despite statements by eye-witnesses that it was their “drunken antics” that led to fisticuffs breaking out. Source: The New Zealand Herald, New Zealand Saints offer Warne a job Shane Warne needn’t worry – he has now been offered an alternative sporting career by his beloved Australian Football League Club St Kilda. Source: The Australian ‘Medicine’ defies logic How can Warne be slapped with 12 months at the beach when there is no evidence that the “fluid tablet” he had was being used to mask the administration of anabolic steroids, wonders former Australian paceman Geoff Lawson. Source: FOX Sports My Dad and his part in rise of the Burnley boy Ronnie Irani recounts his father’s role in earning James Anderson – young man around town, fast bowler extraordinaire, England’s man of the moment – his international stripes. Source: The Guardian, UKBrand protection goes into overdrive at World Cup It is not just the players who are feeling the pinch of the tough ambush marketing clause in operation during the World Cup; the spectators too are. A case in point were two brothers, who were asked to wear their shorts inside out after it was discovered that it sported an ‘unofficial’ logo. Source: The Times of India, India Read anything interesting lately? Send us the link for the CricInfo weblogs.
As Andrew Symonds was given a mohawk, the usual suspects huddled around a makeshift card table, Nathan Bracken nursed his cut finger, the television was tuned to the rugby, and Damien Fleming cursed his rotten luck.Australia’s tri-series match against Pakistan at the Riverside Ground today was abandoned by rain at 1.55pm without a ball bowled, robbing Fleming of an opportunity to nudge Brett Lee out of the side for the final at Lord’s on Saturday.Fans streamed through the gates all morning, excited by their one and only international fixture of the season, but the umbrellas in their hands, frowns on their faces and glances to the miserable, dark sky told the story.Chester-Le-Street dates back hundreds of years and the old buildings and lush surrounding paddocks are a sight to behold – but another impressive spectacle, the Australian one-day cricket team, remained hidden from view.Behind closed doors, Lee gave Symonds a mohawk with an electric shaver while leaving his own blond locks alone.Nearby Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Ricky Ponting, Ian Harvey and team manager Steve Bernard played cards, and Bracken cut the top of his left index finger on a door. Bracken needed three stitches but he was out of action for another week anyway with his shoulder injury.But nobody was more frustrated by the inactivity than Fleming, who now has just two games – against Pakistan at Nottingham on Tuesday and England at The Oval on Thursday – to prove he is a better option than fast but invariably expensive Lee.Australia is already guaranteed a place in the final against Pakistan next Saturday.”I was hoping to play all the rest of the games before the final, and that gave me three games, but now it’s two,” said Fleming, sidelined for the last week by a groin strain.”We generally pick our best team for the finals and most of the other guys have bowled well, so each game was an opportunity to hopefully bowl well and get into the final.”It’s not ideal.”I’ve just got to have two big games.”The Victorian seamer, who had a gymnasium session at noon with the rest of the squad when they finished watching coverage of the Lions-Queensland rugby match, would kill for a spell to rival Jason Gillespie’s awesome 3-20 at Old Trafford.”Dizz (Gillespie) came in for his first game from his groin injury and got man of the match – it’s just about taking the opportunity like he did the other night,” said Fleming, who is in contention after Lee conceded a total 140 runs in his two ten-over appearances.”If you have a booming game, you’re right back in there … but you don’t want to put too much pressure on yourself.”It’d just be good to get out there, have a go, and do well.”That’s all I can aim for really.”Fleming lamented the tight tour schedule which has Australia switching to Test mode straight after the Lord’s final and travelling to Arundel the next day for a fixture against an MCC XI, starting Tuesday.”If you’re going to place a lot of importance on the one-day game, you want to win that and celebrate like it’s a Test I reckon, and have the next day off,” he said.The Australians leave for Nottingham tomorrow.
West Ham United have seen many players join the club over the years either on loan or on permanent deals.
However, regardless of how active the east London club have been in the transfer market, they haven’t always been able to secure the signature of every player they’ve been mentioned with, as happens with many clubs.
One player the Hammers had the chance to sign but didn’t was Edinson Cavani, something that can now be considered a big mistake.
Back in 2009, the striker was reported to be of interest to West Ham when he was still at Palermo, however, they ended up missing out on signing him when he eventually joined Napoli on loan in 2010 and then permanently a year later.
With three years at Napoli under his belt, the Uruguayan scored an impressive 104 goals in 138 appearances across all competitions.
As a result of his immense goalscoring efforts with Napoli, Cavani then signed to Paris Saint-Germain in the 2013 summer transfer window in a deal worth a reported fee of £55m.
During his time in France, the striker once again racked up an incredible goalscoring record by finding the back of the net 200 times in 301 appearances.
Just over seven years later, the 35-year-old eventually made his way to England but it wasn’t West Ham he was penning terms with. Instead, he signed for Manchester United on a free transfer where he’s scored 19 goals in 56 outings.
Labelled as being like a “Viking” by former Red Devils manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer as well as having an “unbelievable” goal record by his former PSG teammate Marquinhos, the centre-forward has scored a total of 360 club goals throughout his impressive career.
Even on the international stage, Cavani has been a rampant goalscorer, totalling 54 goals in 130 caps for Uruguay, highlighting how deadly he has been for club and country for a significant number of years.
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Taking all of this into account, with the benefit of hindsight, West Ham and then-manager Gianfranco Zola should have done more to secure the striker’s signature when they had the chance before he became one of Europe’s most prolific goalscorers.
Thinking about what the veteran may have offered the Hammers on the pitch, it would have been worth the east London club splashing the cash to bring him to England earlier in his career.
In other news: Big worry: West Ham dealt fresh injury setback that’ll have many supporters sweating
Pakistan have included youngsters Shoaib Khan and Mansoor Amjad in the 15-member squad for the one-off Twenty20 international against Bangladesh in Karachi, the first Twenty20 international in the country.Shoaib is an opening batsman, while Amjad is a legspinner. However, it’s unlikely they will feature in the match, as the squad has all of Pakistan’s ODI regulars, except Mohammad Yousuf, who had been dropped for last year’s World Twenty20 as well. Nasir Jamshed comes in his place.Younis Khan, who had opted out of the ODI series before making himself available for the fifth one in Karachi, has been included as well.Mohammad Asif and Umar Gul, both of whom who made comebacks during the ODIs following injury layoffs, have been included in the squad, along with Sohail Tanvir, Wahab Riaz and Rao Iftikhar Anjum.Pakistan Twenty20 squad: Shoaib Malik (capt), Salman Butt, Younis Khan, Nasir Jamshed, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Kamran Akmal (wk), Fawad Alam, Sohail Tanvir, Mohammad Asif, Umar Gul, Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Wahab Riaz, Shoaib Khan, Mansoor Amjad.
Left arm spinner Abdur Rehman took another five-wicket haul to help Habib Bank Limited (HBL) take a 79-run lead over the combined North West Frontier Province-Baluchistan team on the second day of the Pentangular Cup match at the NBP Sports Complex, Karachi.Opener Wajid Ali carried his bat for a fighting 131 as resuming on their overnight 14 for one, NWFP-Baluchistan were left clueless against the spin of HBL. None of the other batsmen managed to cross the 20-run mark as HBL, with the title already in the bag, dismissed their opponents for 236. The 21-year-old Wajid batted for over four hours, hit 19 fours and a brace of sixes in his 197-ball knock.For HBL, Abdur Rehman gave away 78 runs for his five wickets while Sulaman Qadir and Imran Farhat grabbed a couple each. At close of play, HBL had moved onto 117 for the loss of Rafatullah Mohmand, who grabbed a pair in the match, and Atab Alam (18). Farhat was not out on 58 and Qadir had moved onto 36.Sind allrounder Rizwan Ahmed hit his third century of the season as his team was finally dismissed for 379 on the second day of the Pentangular Cup match against Khan Research Laboratories (KRL) at the National Stadium, Karachi.In reply, KRL had moved onto 193 for five wickets with the help of useful knocks from almost all their batsmen. Openers Azhar Ali (33) and Mohtashim Ali (61) provided a stand of 66 and even though Saeed bin Nasir was out cheaply for four, captain Mohammad Wasim batted sensibly to be unbeaten on 21 at close.Earlier, Saeed Ajmal took six for 92 as Rizwan and Tanvir Ahmed (90) shared a 168-run sixth wicket partnership to guide bottom-placed Sind to a decent total.
Steve Harmison’s return to action has been delayed after his wife went into labour. He was due to line-up for Durham in their County Championship clash but withdrew at the last minute.Harmison has not played since the second Test against India at Nagpur after picking up a shin injury, which forced him to fly home. He had been especially keen to get back with an eye on returning to the England squad for the second Test against Sri Lanka at Edgbaston.”I’m really looking forward to playing,” Harmison, 27, said after the ECB gave him the all-clear. “The team have put in some great performances so far this season and I can’t wait to contribute to what should be a pretty exciting match.”Martyn Moxon, Durham’s coach, was excited by the prospect of Harmison’s return. “He’s been bowling over the last week or so and just building up to playing in a game. The good news is he’s had no reaction so far, so he’ll definitely play against Middlesex.” However, Moxon did not expect Harmison to take part in Durham’s Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy one-day match against Lancashire on Sunday and remained uncertain of his chances of making the national side.”We’ll just have to take it day by day,” he said. “We’ve got another four-day game next week, and the second Test is the week after that, so we’ll just have to wait and see.”Harmison apart, England take on Sri Lanka in the first Test at Lord’s tomorrow without Simon Jones and James Anderson, out with knee and back injuries.
ScorecardMichael Yardy demonstrated his allround credentials to complete a memorable personal double, as Sussex overwhelmed a demoralised Bangladeshi side by an innings and 226 runs. Following hot on the heels of his career-best 257, Yardy took 5 for 83 with his left-arm spin to hasten Bangladesh to a thumping defeat.Deprived of the services of their captain, Habibul Bashar, who was forced to retire hurt on the second day after being felled by a bouncer from Jason Lewry, the Bangladeshi middle-order was rudderless. After a composed start from Nafees Iqbal and Aftab Ahmed, they slumped from 88 for 1 to 132 for 7, and it was left to the rookie wicketkeeper, Mushfiqur Rahim, to salvage some pride with his first fifty of the tour.After their second-day debacle, in which they had folded for 127 in reply to Sussex’s substantial 549 for 7 declared, Bangladesh were only ever fighting for respectability when play resumed this morning. For a time they appeared to have learned their lessons, and while Nafees and Aftab were negotiating the moving ball with some comfort during a 58-run stand for the second wicket, a morale-boosting draw was not entirely out of the question.But where it had been the seamers doing the damage in the first innings, now it was the turn of the spinners – or more accurately, Yardy’s part-time left-armers. He had bowled just two overs in the first innings, and taken just five wickets at 131 in his career, but with a record-breaking batting performance under his belt, he was the player the Bangladeshis most feared, and it showed as he ripped through the innings with 5 for 83 in 22.3 overs.Nafees was the first to go, bowled by Yardy for 33 as he offered no stroke, to trigger another dramatic subsidence. Aftab Ahmed fenced a Luke Wright short ball to slip for 33, and when Mohammad Ashraful heaved Yardy down the throat of long on for 7, Bangladesh were 110 for 4 and deep in the mire. Johannes van der Wath, Sussex’s South African signing, then steamed in off his long run to take a second three-wicket haul for the match, including Mashrafee Mortaza and Enamul Haque jr for ducks.Had it not been for the sterling resistance from Rahim, who belied his 16 years and five-foot-nothing stance to score 63 from 98 balls, including 10 fours and a six, Bangladesh would have been looking at a total capitulation. Rahim added 45 for the ninth and final wicket with Shadahat Hossain, who finished 12 not out, before Yardy dragged him out of his crease to complete his five-wicket haul courtesy of a neating stumping from Tim Ambrose.There is little prospect of Rahim being seen at Lord’s next week. Khaled Mashud’s nuggetty skills were sorely missed by the Bangladeshis in this game, and Rahim’s own glovework left much to be desired in Sussex’s lengthy innings, in which he missed two costly stumpings. Nevertheless, as a member of the Under-19 squad who toured England in August 2004, Rahim was able to call on every ounce of experience from that trip. In that respect, he is actually more familiar with English pitches than many of his supposed seniors.
Douglas Hondo celebrates the wicket of Rajin Saleh
After two washouts on the opening days, and 37.1 overs on the third, the deluge returned to Bulawayo to wipe out the fourth day’s play at the Queens Sports Club. Bangladesh, however, will not be complaining, after slumping to 88 for 5 in what little time has been available.Bangladesh had started brightly enough on Saturday, with Hannan Sarkar and Shahriar Hossain adding 64 for the first wicket. But then five wickets tumbled for 23 runs, including the captain, Habibul Bashar, who at least scored his first four runs in his new role, after collecting a pair at Harare last week.With one day remaining, there is no doubt that this match will finish as a draw – only the second time in 28 matches that Bangladesh will have avoided defeat. As was the case against Zimbabwe at Dhaka in November 2001, rain will have had the major say.Zimbabwe 1 Dion Ebrahim, 2 Trevor Gripper, 3 Stuart Carlisle 4 Grant Flower, 5 Sean Ervine, 6 Tatenda Taibu (wk), 7 Travis Friend, 8 Heath Streak (capt), 9 Raymond Price, 10 Douglas Hondo, 11 Blessing Mahwire.Bangladesh 1 Hannan Sarker, 2 Shahriar Hossain, 3 Habibul Bashar (capt), 4 Rajin Saleh, 5 Mohammad Ashraful, 6 Mushfiqur Rahman, 7 Manjarul Islam Rana, 8 Khaled Mashud (wk), 9 Mohammad Rafique, 10 Tapash Baisya, 11 Alamgir Kabir.
Stan Cowman, who died in Upper Hutt on February 2, aged 79, loved cricket, and that love is represented in the National Cricket Museum housed at the Basin Reserve.Cricket history hasn’t always been fashionable, but in setting up and contributing his drive to the Museum which sits beneath the older grandstand at the ground, he has provided future generations with an indelible link with the game’s past.According to his comrade-in-arms at the Museum, Don Neely, it was on an occasion during a rain break in an Australia-New Zealand Test at the ground in 1985/86, that Cowman’s show of memorabilia became the launching pad for what has become a resting place, and showpiece, of much of the material associated with the game.Cowman, a former international umpire who stood in two One-Day Internationals during a career that started with a Plunket Shield match between Wellington and Canterbury in 1973/74 and which continued until the summer of 1984/85, had built up a collection of books, magazines, bats, ties and other cricketana which he put on show in what was the meeting room of the Wellington Cricket Umpires’ Association in the old dining room of the stand which now houses the museum.It proved very popular and when cricket enthusiasts Ron Brierley, later Sir Ron, and John Oakley saw the appeal that Cowman’s collection had for people they were so impressed that it was determined there and then that it was an ideal place for a museum.Livewire Cricket Wellington chief executive Daryn Hanna got involved and with Oakley and Brierley chipping in $10,000 each, and getting another $10,000 each from nine companies they were involved in a campaign fund of establishment was set up. Another $30,000 came from Tourism New Zealand and museum display expert Gary Couchman was called in and the National Cricket Museum was opened by the Governor-General Sir Paul Reeves on November 29, 1987.Until his death Cowman was the honorary curator of the Museum. While getting the Museum up and running was one thing, keeping it operational, and staffed, was another.But Cowman, who had a marvellous knack for getting people involved, built up a core of loyal volunteers who manned the museum whenever it was open.As its reputation grew, so did its collections. The Museum now houses probably the best cricket library in the country and has become the collection place for the acquisitions of past players who no longer have a need for the materials, or from families whose deceased members had collections that needed to be given to a suitable body where they could be maintained.Born on April 14, 1923, in Yorkshire he worked in a worsted manufacturers in Bradford before joining the RAF at age 17, being called up when he was 18. He trained in Canada, the United States and the Bahamas as a navigator, serving as a Flight Lieutenant in Coastal Command in 59 Squadron where he was involved in anti-submarine work in the Atlantic and in convoy escort protection. After the war he qualified at Durham University as a dental surgeon. Eventually he bought his own practice. Cricket remained a passion and he became a member of the local Bankfoot Cricket Club.But dissatisfaction with the workings of the National Health Service led him to emigrate to New Zealand where he was sponsored by the Patea Public Relations Association where he set up as a dentist in the 1960s.An early sign of his later work with the Museum was foreshadowed when he helped form the Patea Historical Society.In 1971 he began a connection with Lower Hutt where he was appointed charge dental surgeon at Hutt Hospital, a position he held for 17 years.Cricket wasn’t his only sporting connection as he became a hockey referee, and achieved a notable double record when refereeing an international match. He was also a president of the New Zealand Hockey Umpires’ Association.(Thanks to Don Neely and Kevin Nelson who assisted in providing information for this obituary).