Billy Bowden forsaken from New Zealand’s general umpiring panel

Wellington: Flamboyant New Zealand referee Billy Bowden might have stood in his final general compare after being forsaken from New Zealand Cricket’s general panel.

Billy Bowden
Billy Bowden

The 53-year-old Bowden, who officiated in 84 tests and 200 one-day internationals over 21 years, amused cricket fans with his individualist signals, generally a curved finger with that he indicated dismissals. Bowden insisted he couldn’t extend a finger since of arthritis.

He was forsaken from a International Cricket Council’s chosen row in 2013, returned in 2014 though was wanting again after umpiring a exam between a West Indies and England in Barbados in May, 2015.

Bowden umpired his 200th one-day general when New Zealand played Australia in Wellington in February.

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