John Blair Robert Hastie (born 8 November 1932) is a former New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in seven

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between 1974 and 1981 and four ODI games between 1975 and 1982. Hastie umpired in two of the matches in one of the most acrimonious Test series of all, when the West Indians toured New Zealand in 1979–80. In the First Test at Carisbrook, Dunedin, after he turned down an appeal by Michael Holding for

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, Holding kicked two of the

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out of the ground. During this Test, Hastie and his colleague

Fred Goodall Frederick Robert Goodall (9 January 1938 – 18 October 2021) was a New Zealand international cricket umpire who officiated in 24 Tests and 15 One-Day Internationals between 1965 and 1988. Goodall was the son of Fred and Betty Goodall from Gr ...

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. In all, Hastie umpired 48 first-class matches and 12

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matches between January 1964 and March 1984, most of them at either

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, or

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, Auckland.

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1932 births Living people People from Te Awamutu New Zealand Test cricket umpires New Zealand One Day International cricket umpires Sportspeople from Waikato {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1930s-stub

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