John Henry Smeaton (born 31 August 1948) is a former Australian

cricket umpire In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French ''nompere'' meaning not a peer, i.e. not a member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field according to the ''Laws of Cricket ...

. He stood in one

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in 2001. Smeaton umpired 42

first-class matches First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sides of eleven players each and is officiall ...

between 1996 and 2004, most of them in

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. He umpired the last three days of the Test match between Australia and New Zealand in Hobart in November 2001, replacing

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during the match after Davis was injured. Rain limited play on the three days to 105.2 overs, and the match was drawn.

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1948 births Living people Australian Test cricket umpires Sportspeople from Melbourne {{Australia-cricket-bio-1940s-stub

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