Spiderman set to retire from umpiring

Cricket Australia pays tribute to Peter Parker

Cricket Australia today paid tribute to umpire Peter Parker after he announced his retirement from the game, ending a career spanning 15 years at the top level.

Parker stood in 10 Test matches and 65 one-day internationals over an international career that began in 1993 with his debut Test against New Zealand in Brisbane. Having also stood in several Sheffield Shield and Pura Cup finals, Parker retires as one of Australian cricket’s longest-serving officials, having made his first-class debut in 1986-87.

Acting Cricket Australia Chief Executive Officer Michael Brown praised Parker’s contribution to the game.

“Peter has had an outstanding career at an international and domestic cricket level over 15 years and has represented Cricket Australia, his craft and himself with distinction.” Mr Brown said.

“He should feel extremely proud of the contribution he has made to the umpiring fraternity and Australian cricket as a whole. His legacy will continue as we strive to develop umpires with the ability to perform in the international arena,” Mr Brown concluded.

Parker, who will take on a full-time position with his long term employer, said he was grateful for the many opportunities umpiring had provided him.

“I would like to thank everyone involved over the years for their help and support in a sport that has now had 25-30 years of my life,” Parker said.

“I’ll miss the camaraderie with the other umpires and also the players but most of all I’ll miss the challenge. But I have managed to umpire the 10 Tests and 65 ODI’s so I walk away from a career proud of what I’ve done.”

take on a full-time position with his long term employer

So he finally convinced the nasty newspaper editor that he has merit as a photogrpaher. Good on him. And now, criminals will not even be safe during cricket season...

Catering staff at international cricket grounds around the world rejoice.

there goes one of my goals ...

embee wrote:there goes one of my goals ...

To be the second largest bloke on a test arena???

aye

Henry wrote:Catering staff at international cricket grounds around the world rejoice.

Why?

Won't they lose turnover?

See ya Porky, we'll miss ya.

10 Tests over a 15 year period !
And he called that "a challenge" .... !

A challenge is being Steve Bucknor, standing in a Test match involving India, following which he has to listen to their whingeing, moaning and bitching on how his anti-Indian bias singlehandedly lost them the match.
Then to top it off, they take their case to the ICC to have Bucknor removed from umpiring all Indian tests.

Now THAT's a challenge, Porky!

PS : Ban India

I bet he loved being called Spiderman - but no doubt his name was more often turned into a pun...

Why TF doesn't the pic show when it showed in the preview?

Needs to end in .jpg or .gif mynah

Thanks, didn't notice the extension - odd that it showed initially, though!

Let's try again, though hardly the pic I'd like to spend a huge amount of effort on:

Looks like a 1970's Welsh darts player!

That polo shirt is screaming at the seams as well!