Daryl Harper

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Daryl Harper
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Harper in 2009
Personal information
Full name
Daryl John Harper
Born (1951-10-23) 23 October 1951 (age 72)
Mile End, South Australia
BattingRight-handed
RoleBatsman
Umpiring information
Tests  umpired94 (1998–2011)
ODIs  umpired174 (1994–2011)
FC  umpired164 (1987–2011)
LA  umpired214 (1988–2011)
Source: CricketArchive, 8 June 2011

Daryl John Harper, (born 23 October 1951) is an Australian former cricket umpire, who was a Test umpire between 1998 and 2011. He was a member of the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires from 2002 until 2011 when the ICC announced that Harper was being stood down at the termination of his contract in July 2011. In June 2011, following criticism from India during the India - West Indies Test series Harper retired from umpiring. [1]

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Biography

Harper was born in the Adelaide suburb of Mile End in 1951 and attended Norwood High School before taking up primary school teaching. He had a brief career as an Australian rules football umpire before injury forced him to quit. [2]

Playing career

Harper played as a right-handed batsman in Adelaide grade cricket competition for the Teachers' College and East Torrens clubs.

Umpiring

In 1983 he switched to umpiring, making his first-class cricket debut in 1987.

Harper made his first appearance in an international fixture in January 1994 when he umpired a One Day International (ODI) in Perth between New Zealand and South Africa. In November 1998 Harper made his test match umpiring debut when appointed to stand in the 2nd Ashes test at the WACA ground alongside umpire Venkat; Harper also stood at the MCG in the 4th test of that series. After promotion to the National Grid Panel of International Umpires, Harper also began to appear in Test matches away from Australia as the designated independent umpire.

In 2002 the International Cricket Council (ICC) introduced a policy of two independent umpires standing in each Test match, and one independent & one home umpire in ODIs. The independent umpires would be chosen from a newly conceived ICC Elite umpire panel comprising the ICC's determination of the top 8 - 10 umpires from around the world. Harper was included in the original line up for this panel, at the time chosen over fellow Australians Simon Taufel and Darrell Hair (both of whom subsequently joined the panel in 2003). Harper umpired the opening match of the 2003 Cricket World Cup in South Africa, and went on to stand in one of the semi-finals. On 31 August 2005 he adjudicated in his 100th ODI, a match between Zimbabwe and New Zealand at Harare.

He was the third umpire for a trial of the 'player referral' system in 2009. [3] In 2010, England lodged a formal complaint against Harper after a referred caught behind decision was turned down because the volume supplied by the home broadcaster was not good enough to detect the edge. [4] [5] [6]

The ICC dropped Harper from the 2010 ICC World Twenty20 due to "general performance reasons" [7] and demoted him from the Elite Panel in May 2011. [8] The ICC subsequently revealed that Harper would stand in two last Test matches; between West Indies and India at Sabina Park and Windsor Park.

Harper retired from umpiring following some heavy criticism from India during the first test against the West Indies. [9] Dave Richardson, the ICC Cricket manager, said Harper received "unfair criticism" from the Indian players and that his correct decision making percentage against India was at 96 percent, which was "considerably above average". [6] Harper said he got 94% of his decisions in the match right, but conceded he made two errors in the game. [10]

International Umpiring statistics

As of 4 June 2010:

FirstLatestTotal
TestsAustralia v England at Perth, Nov 1998New Zealand v Pakistan at Wellington, Jan 201194
ODIsNew Zealand v South Africa at Perth, Jan 1994Bangladesh v South Africa at Dhaka, March 2011174
T20IsSouth Africa v West Indies at Johannesburg, Sep 2007Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Lord's, Jun 200910
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  1. ↑ "Umpire Daryl Harper pulls out of India-West Indies Test". WorldSnap News. 29 June 2011. Archived from the original on 9 February 2013.
  2. ↑ Homfray, Reece (5 January 2010). "Test umpire Daryl Harper's spin on Redlegs". East Torrens Messenger. Retrieved 8 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Cricinfo. "Sarwan endures amid umpiring chaos" . Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  4. ↑ Cricinfo. "Harper howlers undermine UDRS" . Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  5. ↑ Cricinfo. "ECB ask for reinstatement of lost review" . Retrieved 6 February 2010.
  6. 1 2 Hopps, David (29 June 2011). "Daryl Harper pulls out of final Test after criticism from India". The Guardian. London.
  7. ↑ Cricinfo. "Daryl Harper won't stand at World Twenty20" . Retrieved 11 March 2010.
  8. ↑ "Harper, de Silva removed from Elite Panel".
  9. ↑ "Motorsport Video |Motorsport Highlights, Replays, News, Clips".
  10. ↑ "Harper defends performance, concedes two errors". ESPN.com. 1 July 2011. Retrieved 29 August 2023.
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  12. ↑ "New Crows Ambassador". 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 10 October 2012. Retrieved 17 June 2010.
  13. ↑ "Disgraced, Daryl Harper cribs: 'Indians above laws of cricket'". The Indian Express . 1 July 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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