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
Bjarne Jensen (umpire) the Yorkshire Cricket Board. Bjarne Jensen (umpire) Bjarne Kofoed Jensen (born 1958) is a Danish cricket umpire. Jensen's first major umpiring duties came in 1989, when England women played two matches in Denmark at the Nykøbing Mors Cricket Club Ground against the Netherlands women and Ireland women, in matches which had Women's One Day International status. Over a decade later, he stood in two List A matches in men's cricket in English domestic cricket, the first in a match in the 2002 Cheltenham & Gloucester Trophy between Hertfordshire and Staffordshire, while the second came in the 2003 Cheltenham & Gloucester