Bronze Bails Award
Encyclopedia
The Bronze Bails Award in the sport of Cricket
, is award given by the International Cricket Council
(ICC) to umpires
who have officiated (in Cricket terms, stood) in 100 One Day Internationals.
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...
, is award given by the International Cricket Council
International Cricket Council
The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...
(ICC) to umpires
Umpire (cricket)
In cricket, an umpire is a person who has the authority to make judgements on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket...
who have officiated (in Cricket terms, stood) in 100 One Day Internationals.
Recipients
Bronze Bails awardees include:- Steve BucknorSteve BucknorThe Honourable Stephen Anthony Bucknor OJ, also known as Steve Bucknor, is a former international cricket umpire. He was born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, on 31 May 1946. He became a high school mathematics teacher and sports coach, before becoming an international football referee and a cricket umpire...
- David ShepherdDavid Shepherd (umpire)David Robert Shepherd MBE was one of the cricket world's best-known umpires. He stood in 92 Test matches, the last of them in June 2005, and officiated in three World Cup finals.- Playing career :...
- Rudi KoertzenRudi KoertzenRudolf Eric Koertzen otherwise known as Rudi Koertzen is a former international cricket umpire. His name is pronounced in English....
- Simon TaufelSimon TaufelSimon James Arthur Taufel, , is an Australian cricket umpire who is a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel...
- Daryl HarperDaryl HarperDaryl John Harper, is an Australian cricket umpire, who was a Test umpire between 1998 and 2011. He was a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires from 2002 until 2011 when the ICC announced that Harper was being stood down at the termination of his contract in July 2011...
- Billy BowdenBilly BowdenBrent Fraser "Billy" Bowden is an international cricket umpire from New Zealand. He was a player until he began to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis and took up umpiring...
Related awards
- Silver Bails Award - awarded to Umpires who have officiated 200 One Day Internationals
- Golden Bails AwardGolden Bails AwardThe Golden Bails Award in the sport of Cricket, is award given by the International Cricket Council to umpires who have officiated in 100 test matches.-Related awards:...
- awarded to Umpires who have officiated 100 Test matchesTest cricketTest cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...