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721:, had to intervene to protect Constant. Bird, however, was still on the pitch at the time according to his own recounting of the event in his book. When play finally started at 3:45 pm, police had to escort the umpires through the Long Room and on to the field. This was not the only occasion where Bird had to stop play, despite current sunny conditions, because of previous bad weather: in the 1988 Test at Headingley against the West Indies, an overnight rainstorm caused a blocked drain to overflow with a delayed action: the pitch was fine but the bowler's run-up was slowly flooding from underneath, the water level was oozing up over Curtly Ambrose's bootlaces, and Bird's as well when he went over to investigate, and the umpires had to take the players off while the outfield was cleared of water. 858: 941: 594:, where at first he enjoyed a more or less regular place in the team. In his first season (1960), he scored over 1,000 runs, including a century against the touring South Africans which would prove to be his only other first-class century. However, he faded out of the team, thanks to a combination of loss of form, confidence and a recurrence of his persistent knee injury, playing his last match in 1964. Overall, between 1956 and 1964, Bird played 590:), he was dropped when Taylor returned from international duty in the next match. Bird played only five more championship matches that season (plus the MCC versus Champion County match), four in the middle order rather than his preferred opener's position, and spent most of the season as "twelfth man": hardly a situation conducive to building confidence in his batting. Shortly before the start of the 1960 season he moved to 44: 645:. The other umpire was Charlie Eliott as England won by an innings and one run. Bird also umpired in the second and third tests of that summer's tour by the West Indies – both of which proved eventful: in 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 574:. Boycott has spoken highly of Bird's ability as a batsman, but feels that his attempt to forge a career as a county cricketer was hampered by his inability to control his nerves – although he was also not helped by stiff competition for the opening batsman's position. Indeed, after scoring his first (and only) 649:
refused to continue in protest against the conduct of the West Indian players. Then, in the third test 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
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A six-foot statue of Bird erected in his honour near the place of his birth in Barnsley was unveiled on 30 June 2009. It has subsequently been raised by putting it on a five-foot-high plinth in order to discourage late night revellers hanging inappropriate items on the famous finger.
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One of Bird's strengths was his ability to manage and earn the respect of some of the more volatile players in the game, sometimes by using his infectious humour. He was also known as being eccentric, famously arriving at a ground five hours early as the
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Bird played first-class cricket for Yorkshire and Leicestershire as a right-handed batsman, but only scored two centuries in 93 appearances. His career was blighted by a knee injury, which eventually forced him to retire aged 31. He umpired in 66
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as he came out, and he received a standing ovation from the crowd. Bird, an emotional man, was in tears. His eyes had to clear quickly, though, because two minutes later he had to give England captain
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On his pending appointment as President of Yorkshire CCC in 2014, Bird stated "Never in my wildest dreams did I think that I would become the president of the greatest cricket club in the world".
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estate as his house was pulled down in a slum clearance scheme. The son of a coal miner, he gained the nickname 'Dickie' at school. In 1944, Bird failed his
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was published in 1999 by Hodder and Stoughton. Bird set up the Dickie Bird Foundation to help disadvantaged under-18s achieve their potential in sport.
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As of June 2021, Bird has officiated the most test matches in a single nation – 54 in England and has officiated in more test matches at
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pitch, knowing there was no bomb there. He gained a reputation for stopping play for weather, and almost never giving batsmen out
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in 1980. Although the Saturday of this particular match had mostly pleasant sunshine, Bird and his fellow umpire,
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was wearing a white hat very similar to the one he favoured, and asked the conductor where he obtained it from.
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announced that Bird was to be voted in as the club's president at their Annual General Meeting on 29 March.
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expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's
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He stood in his first county game in 1970. Three years later, he officiated at his first
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out LBW in the first over. Two years later, in 1998, he stood in his last county match.
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In August 2014, Bird was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to
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for Yorkshire and Leicestershire in 93 matches, mostly in the County Championship.
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Bird's autobiography, published in 1997, has sold more than a million copies.
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lockdown. He said that exercise was the key to him keeping his spirits up.
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between 1965 and 1969, scoring over 10,000 runs. He coached cricket at
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After his county career ended Bird was a cricket professional for
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At the beginning of his final Test in 1996, the two teams –
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Bird's attention to detail was placed under scrutiny at the
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White Cap and Bails – Adventures of a Much Travelled Umpire
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He came out of retirement in January 2007 to umpire in the
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in 2000. He was awarded Honorary Life Membership of the
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Bird went on to write his autobiography simply titled
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after their fifth pitch inspection. The two captains,
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Dickie Bird Autobiography: An honest and frank story
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Fourth Test between England and New Zealand in 1983
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Index

Dick Bird
OBE

Barnsley
West Riding of Yorkshire
off-break
Batsman
Umpire
Yorkshire
Leicestershire
FC
Scotland
FC
Essex
LA
Lancashire
LA
Northamptonshire
Umpiring
Tests
ODIs
First-class
List A
Batting average
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Balls
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
stumpings

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