NZ Cricket drop Bowden from umpire panel

Umpire Billy Bowden, who has officiated in 84 Tests and 200 one-dayers over 21 years, has been dropped from New Zealand Cricket's international panel.

Flamboyant umpire Billy Bowden might have stood in his last international match after being dropped from New Zealand Cricket's international panel.

The 53-year-old New Zealander, who officiated in 84 Tests and 200 one-day internationals over 21 years, amused fans with his eccentric signals, especially the crooked finger with which he indicated dismissals. Bowden insisted he couldn't extend the finger because of arthritis.

He was dropped from the International Cricket Council's elite panel in 2013, returned in 2014, but was omitted again after umpiring the Test between the West Indies and England in May, 2015 in Barbados.

Bowden umpired his 200th ODI in February when New Zealand played Australia in Wellington.


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