Richard James Evans (born 20 November 1942) was an
Australian Test cricket umpire, from
Western Australia
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.
He umpired in 3
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between 1989 and 1990. His first match was between
Australia
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and the
West Indies
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at
Adelaide
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on 3 February to 7 February 1989, a drawn match on a batting pitch too good for a result.
Dean Jones scored 216 in Australia’s first innings of 515, and
Mike Whitney took 7/89 in the West Indies’ reply. Evans’ partner, as in all his matches, was
Peter McConnell
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.
Evans’ last Test match was between Australia and
Pakistan
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at
Melbourne
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on 12 January to 16 January 1990, won by Australia by 92 runs with only 22 minutes left.
Mark Taylor scored a century,
Terry Alderman
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He began his first-class cricket career in 1974 with Western Australia i ...
took 8 wickets, and
Merv Hughes
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6 wickets. Six LBW decisions went Australia’s way in Pakistan’s second innings and this, said ''
Wisden
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'' (1991 ed., pp. 1034–5), "brought a good match to a somewhat contentious conclusion".
Evans umpired 17
One Day International
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(ODI) matches between 1988 and 1994. Altogether, he umpired 47 first-class matches in his career between 1984 and 1997.
Ric has just recently resigned from the WA Cricket Association as Umpire Manager to take up an umpire high performance role with
Cricket Australia
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.
See also
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List of Test cricket umpires
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List of One Day International cricket umpires
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1942 births
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