Douglas Dumbleton | |
Country: | New Zealand |
Fullname: | Douglas Philip Dumbleton |
Birth Date: | 27 April 1918 |
Birth Place: | Wellington, New Zealand |
Death Place: | Mount Maunganui, New Zealand |
Umpire: | true |
Testsumpired: | 2 |
Umptestdebutyr: | 1963 |
Umptestlastyr: | 1964 |
Date: | 5 July |
Year: | 2013 |
Source: | http://www.espncricinfo.com/newzealand/content/player/36928.html Cricinfo |
Douglas Philip Dumbleton (27 April 1918 - 4 March 2005) was a New Zealand cricket umpire from Wellington.[1] He stood in two Test matches at the Basin Reserve in Wellington in 1963 and 1964.[2]
Dumbleton played one first-class match for Wellington in the Plunket Shield in the 1940s. He umpired 17 first-class matches between 1954 and 1969, all but one of them at the Basin Reserve.[3] He was a leading figure in the formation of the New Zealand Umpires' Association, and became its first life member.[4]