Personal information | |
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Full name | John Blair Robert Hastie |
Born | Te Awamutu, New Zealand | 8 November 1932
Umpiring information | |
Tests umpired | 7 (1974–1981) |
ODIs umpired | 4 (1975–1982) |
Source: Cricinfo, 7 July 2013 |
John Blair Robert Hastie (born 8 November 1932) is a former New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in seven Test matches between 1974 and 1981, and four ODI games between 1975 and 1982. [1]
Hastie umpired in two of the matches in one of the most acrimonious Test series of all, when the West Indies toured New Zealand in 1979–80. In the First Test, at Carisbrook, Dunedin, after Hastie turned down an appeal by Michael Holding for caught behind, Holding kicked two of the stumps out of the ground. [2] During this Test, Hastie and his colleague Fred Goodall gave a Test record number of leg before wicket decisions: 12 – seven against the West Indies batsmen, five against New Zealand. New Zealand won by one wicket. [3] [4]
In all, Hastie umpired in 48 first-class matches and 12 List A matches between January 1964 and March 1984, most of them at either Seddon Park, Hamilton, or Eden Park, Auckland. [5] [6]
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