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Cricket umpire
Bruce Nicholas James Oxenford
(born 5 March 1960) is an Australian former
cricket umpire
and a former
cricketer
. He has been an ICC international umpire since 2008, when he first umpired an ODI match. He went on to stand in his first Test match in 2010. On 26 September 2012, he was promoted to the
ICC Elite Umpire Panel
, the highest umpiring body in the game of cricket, replacing fellow Australian
Simon Taufel
, who retired from the panel to take up a newly created ICC supervisory and training position.
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In January 2021, Oxenford retired from international umpiring, but would still officiate in domestic matches in Australia.
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Playing career
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Oxenford played in eight
first-class
matches for
Queensland
during the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons.
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Umpiring career
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Oxenford began umpiring in 1998 and went on to make his first-class umpiring debut in 2001. He was appointed to
Cricket Australia
's 12-man National Umpire Panel in 2003 and in 2007?08 was appointed to ICC International Panel of Umpires in the
third umpire
category.
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His first Test match was in December 2010 between
Sri Lanka
and
West Indies
at
Pallekele
.
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He was elevated to the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires in 2012. He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the
2015 Cricket World Cup
.
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On 30 August 2018, he officiated in his 50th Test as an on-field umpire, in the match between
England and India
.
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In April 2019, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires to stand in matches during the
2019 Cricket World Cup
.
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See also
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References
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