Jeffrey Howard Evans (born 7 August 1954) is a Welsh
cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by str ...
umpire
An umpire is an official in a variety of sports and competition, responsible for enforcing the rules of the sport, including sportsmanship decisions such as ejection.
The term derives from the Old French nonper, ''non'', "not" and ''per'', ...
who has stood in over 200
first-class and
List A matches since being named to the ECB Umpires List in 1999. He has also stood in over 100
Twenty20
Twenty20 (T20) is a shortened game format of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) in 2003 for the inter-county competition. In a Twenty20 game, the two teams have a single inn ...
matches since the inception of the format in 2003. He has also stood as an umpire in four Women's ODIs between 2002 and 2014, as well as the match between
India Women and
New Zealand Women in the
Women's T20 Quadrangular Series in England in 2011. Born in
Llanelli
Llanelli (" St Elli's Parish"; ) is a market town and the largest community in Carmarthenshire and the preserved county of Dyfed, Wales. It is located on the Loughor estuary north-west of Swansea and south-east of the county town, Carmarth ...
, Carmarthenshire, he also umpired matches in the
ICL 20-20 Indian Championship 2007–08.
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1954 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Llanelli
Welsh cricket umpires
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