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Legendary umpire Dickie Bird passes away
The Statesman Kolkata
|September 24, 2025
STATESMAN NEWS SERVICE
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Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird, regarded as one of cricket's most iconic umpires, has died aged 92.
Bird officiated in 66 Test matches and 69 ODIs, including three World Cup finals, and was long associated with Yorkshire, the county where he started as a top-order batter in 1956, and later became president in 2014.
This story is from the September 24, 2025 edition of The Statesman Kolkata.
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