Neil Laurence Bainton (born 2 October 1970) is an English

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 striki ...

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. He was born in

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in 1970. Bainton was appointed to the list of full-time first-class umpires in late 2005, having officiated his first first-class match in 2000. He has also officiated in several women's and youth internationals. He sits on the board of the ECB

Association of Cricket Officials The Association of Cricket Officials (ACO) is an organisation set up to represent and support cricket officials, especially umpires and scorers. It operates under the auspices of the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and is often referred to ...

.Association of Cricket Officials Newsletter Issue 20 (Summer 2014)

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* 1970 births Living people People from Romford English cricket umpires {{England-cricket-bio-1970s-stub