Neil Bainton
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Neil Laurence Bainton is an English cricket
umpire
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Bainton was appointed to the list of full-time first-class
umpires in late 2005, having officiated his first first-class match in 2000. He has also officiated in several women's and youth 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...
umpire
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...
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Bainton was appointed to the list of full-time first-class
First-class cricket
First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...
umpires in late 2005, having officiated his first first-class match in 2000. He has also officiated in several women's and youth internationals.