Barry George Frost (born 6 February 1958) is a New Zealand former
cricket umpire
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.
Life and career
Frost grew up on a dairy farm near
Leigh
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, north of
Auckland
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. He attended
Mahurangi College in
Warkworth before going to Auckland to work. He played club cricket in Auckland, and took up umpiring in 1995–96, after retiring from senior ranks.
Frost made his
List A cricket
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umpiring debut in 1998 and
first-class cricket
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debut in the following year.
He umpired three
Twenty20 International
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s between 2010 and 2012, and 10 women's
One-day international
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s between 1997 and 2015.
[ He was the founding President of the New Zealand Professional Cricket Umpires' Association in 2011.
In 2015–16 Frost became the eighth New Zealand umpire to officiate in 100 first-class matches.][ He retired after the 2015–16 season.]
See also
* List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires
This is a list of cricket umpires who have officiated in at least one men's Twenty20 International (T20I) match. , 512 umpires have officiated in a men's T20I match.
On 20 January 2019, Qatar's Shivani Mishra became the first female on-field u ...
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References
1958 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Auckland
New Zealand cricket umpires
New Zealand Twenty20 International cricket umpires
People educated at Mahurangi College
20th-century New Zealand sportsmen
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