Richard James Evans (born 20 November 1942) was an Australian Test cricket umpire, from

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. He umpired in 3 Test matches between 1989 and 1990. His first match was between

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and the

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on 3 February to 7 February 1989, a drawn match on a batting pitch too good for a result. Dean Jones scored 216 in Australia's first innings of 515, and Mike Whitney took 7/89 in the West Indies’ reply. Evans’ partner, as in all his matches, was Peter McConnell. Evans’ last Test match was between Australia and

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on 12 January to 16 January 1990, won by Australia by 92 runs with only 22 minutes left. Mark Taylor scored a century,

Terry Alderman Terence Michael Alderman (born 12 June 1956) is a former Australian international cricketer who played primarily as a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He began his first-class cricket career during the 1974–75 season with Western Australia in t ...

took 8 wickets, and

Merv Hughes Mervyn Gregory Hughes (born 23 November 1961) is a former Australian cricketer. A right-arm fast bowler, he represented Australia in 53 Test matches between 1985 and 1994, taking 212 wickets. He played 33 One Day Internationals, taking 38 wicke ...

6 wickets. Six LBW decisions went Australia's way in Pakistan's second innings and this, said ''

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'' (1991 ed., pp. 1034–5), "brought a good match to a somewhat contentious conclusion". Evans umpired 17

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(ODI) matches between 1988 and 1994. Altogether, he umpired 47 first-class matches in his career between 1984 and 1997. Ric has just recently resigned from the WA Cricket Association as Umpire Manager to take up an umpire high performance role with

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* * 1942 births Living people Australian Test cricket umpires Australian One Day International cricket umpires {{Australia-cricket-bio-1940s-stub

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