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
Tommy Wilson (umpire) Tommy Wilson (umpire) Thomas 'Tommy' Guy Wilson (born 5 November 1937) is a former English cricket umpire from Bretherton, Lancashire. Wilson first stood as an umpire in a Minor Counties Championship match between Shropshire and Cambridgeshire in 1969. Seven years later he stood in his first first-class match between Yorkshire and Lancashire in the County Championship. In that same year he stood in his first List A match between Yorkshire and Northamptonshire in the 1976 John Player League. In total, Wilson stood in 25 first-class matches from 1976 to 1986, and 35 List A matches from 1976 to 2002, standing