Dickie Bird 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
Steve Dunne (cricket umpire) New Zealand and England at his home ground in Dunedin on 26 February 2002. He had also stood in his first ODI at Carisbrook, just over 13 years earlier. He retired after he was not chosen as one of the eight umpires on the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires as he was considered not good enough for the modern game. He published an autobiographical account of his experiences, "Alone in the Middle", in 2003. Steve Dunne (cricket umpire) Robert Stephen Dunne (born 22 April 1943) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He was the first umpire to stand in 100