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Cricket

Dickie Bird’s distinguished cricket career in pictures

PA

PA Sport Staff

23, Sep

Former Test umpire Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird has died at the age of 92.

Here, the PA news agency takes a look at his distinguished cricket career in pictures.

v2-image-production-2df479cb86b620121ff5123473dfb499Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzEzODk4-2.910975 — Harold ‘Dickie’ Bird represented Yorkshire and Leicestershire during his first-class playing career between 1956 and 1964 (PA)

v2-image-production-0d79fc49131a01eda0cec8ff488231ebY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE0MzM4-2.1546453 — Bird watches Australia fast bowler Dennis Lillee bowl against England in a 1981 Test match (PA)

v2-image-production-68f5853b7aec7c05803e72335f0e93b2Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE0NTQw-2.9218442 — Bird and fellow umpire David Constant (right) discuss whether play can resume at Lord’s after a downpour during the 1980 Centenary Test between England and Australia at Lord’s (PA)

v2-image-production-9bcf155d1d080aa8a612b660643a5f2bY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE0NzQx-2.5879089 — Bird (back to camera) shares a joke with Queen Elizabeth II during an England v New Zealand Test match at Lord’s (PA)

v2-image-production-932b6398858cab4b5eba2a55778e9f13Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE1NDMw-2.1025458 — Bird – given a guard of honour by England and India teams at his final Test in 1996 – acknowledges the well wishes of the crowd from the balcony after the match (Sean Dempsey/PA)

v2-image-production-4c521073f72819666bad57f37daca57dY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE0ODgw-2.1125702 — Bird waits in the dressing room ahead of his final county championship match as an umpire, Yorkshire against Warwickshire at Headingley in 1998 (John Giles/PA)

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Bird reveals a colourful line in undergarments after being hit with a ball in his final one-day match at Headingley (John Giles/PA)

v2-image-production-52c59edfe2293e97965ee8c06c46ead5Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE1MDcw-2.13529839 — Bird after being presented with an OBE medal at Buckingham Palace (Sean Dempsey/PA)

v2-image-production-8635480bcc66c180ad2b6a862aea2dd8Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE1MTky-2.5775768 — Bird poses alongside a clay sculpture of himself, which was sited in Barnsley town centre (Anna Gowthorpe/PA)

v2-image-production-aed3c38d83b9ca6030012c802db2f346Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE1NjEy-2.1337750 — The Rolling Stones singer and cricket fan Mick Jagger (left) with Bird during an England and West Indies Test match at The Oval (Tom Hevezi/PA)

v2-image-production-fee10e8a8abcff20a4f0c74698694758Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE1OTg1-2.23076844 — An emotional Bird before ringing the five minute bell ahead of a Lord’s Test match (Anthony Devlin/PA)

v2-image-production-8313d473410d454a0edc3ea54dd9dc06Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE2MTI3-2.6515085 — Bird taking part in the judging of Britain’s Landmark Bangers’ competition in London (Dominic Lipinski/PA)

v2-image-production-690f0260c76d9bf4b647975dc0dddbc4Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE2MjEx-2.24074338 — Bird lifts the County Championship trophy with Yorkshire captain Andrew Gale (Anthony Devlin/PA)

v2-image-production-5479f5141f3470144fafdd4ad1edd095Y29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE2MzM0-2.6562432 — Barnsley boys Sir Michael Parkinson (left) and Bird at the Huddersfield University campus in Barnsley, where they received honorary doctorates (John Giles/PA)

v2-image-production-5d7f16813478080886d23337d8b2875eY29udGVudHNlYXJjaGFwaSwxNzU4NzE2NDEz-2.24287939 — Bird at a memorial service for former England and Yorkshire captain Brian Close in 2015 (Anna Gowthorpe/PA)

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