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Ian Gould becomes 15th umpire to stand in 100 ODIs
Sydney, March 8
Ian Gould became the 15th
umpire to stand in 100 One-Day Internationals (ODIs) when he took the
field in the Australia versus Sri Lanka match in World Cup 2015 at
Sydney cricket ground on Sunday.
On completing 100 ODIs, Gould
said in a statement: "I love umpiring and really consider it a great
honour to be on the field with the some of the greatest players in the
world. Cricket is just such a great game."
Gould joined the
first-class umpires' panel in England in 2002 and was elevated to the
Emirates International Panel of International Cricket Council (ICC)
Umpires in 2006.
He made his international umpiring debut in an
ODI between England and Sri Lanka at Oval in June 2006, while he made
his Test debut two years later in Bloemfontein in a match between South
Africa and Bangladesh.
In 2009, he was promoted to the Emirates
Elite Panel of ICC Umpires. Apart from his 100 ODIs, he stood in 43
Tests and 29 Twenty20 Internationals. Gould has also umpired in World
Cup 2007 and 2011, as well as in the Champions Trophy 2009 and 2013.
During
his playing days, he was a wicket-keeper-batsman for Middlesex, Sussex
and England in a career that ran from 1975 to 1996. He kept wickets for
England in 18 ODIs in 1983, including seven during the World Cup 1983 in
which he scored 66 runs and accounted for 12 batsmen behind wickets.
The umpire with most appearances in ODIs is Rudi Koertzen who stood in 209 matches.