Richard Illingworth - Interesting Facts, Trivia, And Records

Richard Illingworth, who celebrates his birthday on 23rd August, is a former England cricketer and a current Elite Panel Umpire of ICC. 

Here are some interesting facts, trivia, and records about Richard Illingworth: 

1) Richard Illingworth was born in 1963, Greengates, Bradford, Yorkshire. 

2) Illingworth was a left-arm spinner who played most of his first-class wickets for Worcestershire. However, in the latter stages of his career, Richard played for Derbyshire for two seasons. He also played one season in the South African Currie Cup for Natal. 

3) Richard Illingworth made three centuries while batting as a night watchman. 

4) Illingworth finished his career as a player with 831 wickets in first-class cricket while scoring 7027 runs at the same time. In List-A cricket, Richard picked up 412 wickets and scored 1458 runs. 

5) Richard Illingworth had an ordinary international career where played nine test matches in which he picked 19 wickets. In 25 ODIs, the left-arm spinner got 30 wickets. 

6) In the 2006 England cricket season, Illingworth was appointed to the ECB full-list of first-class umpires. 

7) Richard joined the ICC's elite umpire panel in 2013. 

8) Richard Illingworth was the first neutral umpire in the test cricket post the coronavirus lockdown. 

9) He umpired in the 2015 and 2019 World Cups and was one of the on-field umpires in the World Test Championship(WTC) Final between India and New Zealand in 2021.