Richard Hooper (born 30 December 1976) is a New Zealand cricket

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'', ...

. He has stood in matches in the Plunket Shield in New Zealand and the Sunfoil Series in South Africa. Prior to the February

2011 Christchurch earthquake A major earthquake occurred in Christchurch on Tuesday 22 February 2011 at 12:51 p.m. local time (23:51 UTC, 21 February). The () earthquake struck the entire of the Canterbury region in the South Island, centred south-east ...

, Hooper lived with his wife and their two girls in Rolleston. His wife,

Amanda Hooper Amanda Jane Hooper (née Christie, 1980 – 22 February 2011) was a female professional field hockey player from New Zealand. She died in one of the office buildings that collapsed in the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake at age 30. Amanda ...

, died in the collapse of the PGC building during the earthquake. Since the earthquake, Hooper has moved to

New Plymouth New Plymouth ( mi, Ngāmotu) is the major city of the Taranaki region on the west coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is named after the English city of Plymouth, Devon from where the first English settlers to New Plymouth migrated. ...

, and found a new partner with whom he had a daughter in 2015.

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* 1976 births Living people New Zealand cricket umpires People from Ōtorohanga Sportspeople from Waikato {{NewZealand-cricket-bio-1970s-stub