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{{short description|Cricket umpire}}
{{Use British English|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2013}}
{{Infobox cricketer
| name = Richard Illingworth
| image = Richard_illingworth.jpg
| country = England
| fullname = Richard Keith Illingworth
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|8|23|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Bradford]], [[West Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| batting = Right-handed
| bowling = Slow left–arm orthodox
| role = [[Umpire (cricket)|Umpire]], Bowler
| family =
| international = true
| internationalspan = 1991–1996

| testdebutdate = 4 July
| testdebutyear = 1991
| testdebutagainst = West Indies
| testcap = 551
| lasttestdate = 26 December
| lasttestyear = 1995
| lasttestagainst = South Africa

| odidebutdate = 23 May
| odidebutyear = 1991
| odidebutagainst = West Indies
| odicap = 113
| lastodidate = 9 March
| lastodiyear = 1996
| lastodiagainst = Pakistan

| club1 = [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]]
| year1 = 1982–2000
| club2 = [[KwaZulu-Natal (cricket team)|Natal]]
| year2 = 1988/89
| club3 = [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]
| year3 = 2001

| umpire = yes
| testsumpired = 64
| umptestdebutyr = 2012
| umptestlastyr = 2023
| odisumpired = 78
| umpodidebutyr = 2010
| umpodilastyr = 2023
| t20isumpired = 27
| umpt20idebutyr = 2010
| umpt20ilastyr = 2022

| wtestsumpired = 1
| umpwtestdebutyr = 2005
| umpwtestlastyr =
| wodisumpired = 6
| umpwodidebutyr = 2003
| umpwodilastyr = 2008
| wt20isumpired = 13
| umpwt20idebutyr = 2011
| umpwt20ilastyr = 2016

| columns = 4
| column1 = [[Test cricket|Test]]
| matches1 = 9
| runs1 = 128
| bat avg1 = 18.28
| 100s/50s1 = 0/0
| top score1 = 28
| deliveries1 = 1,485
| wickets1 = 19
| bowl avg1 = 32.36
| fivefor1 = 0
| tenfor1 = 0
| best bowling1 = 4/96
| catches/stumpings1 = 5/–
| column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
| matches2 = 25
| runs2 = 68
| bat avg2 = 11.33
| 100s/50s2 = 0/0
| top score2 = 14
| deliveries2 = 1,501
| wickets2 = 30
| bowl avg2 = 35.29
| fivefor2 = 0
| tenfor2 = 0
| best bowling2 = 3/33
| catches/stumpings2 = 8/–
| column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
| matches3 = 376
| runs3 = 7,027
| bat avg3 = 22.45
| 100s/50s3 = 4/21
| top score3 = 120[[not out|*]]
| deliveries3 = 65,868
| wickets3 = 831
| bowl avg3 = 31.54
| fivefor3 = 27
| tenfor3 = 6
| best bowling3 = 7/50
| catches/stumpings3 = 161/–
| column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
| matches4 = 381
| runs4 = 1,458
| bat avg4 = 14.87
| 100s/50s4 = 0/1
| top score4 = 53[[not out|*]]
| deliveries4 = 16,918
| wickets4 = 412
| bowl avg4 = 27.08
| fivefor4 = 2
| tenfor4 = 0
| best bowling4 = 5/24
| catches/stumpings4 = 93/–
| date = 9 July 2023
| source = https://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/player/15383.html Cricinfo
}}

'''Richard Keith Illingworth''' (born 23 August 1963) is an English former [[cricket]]er, who is currently an [[Umpire (cricket)|umpire]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/657430 |title=International cricketers turned umpires |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=7 April 2018}}</ref> The bulk of his domestic cricketing career occurred with [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]], although he had a spell with [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]], and overseas with [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]]. He played in nine [[Test cricket|Tests]] and twenty five [[One Day International|ODIs]] for [[England cricket team|England]], including participating in the [[1992 Cricket World Cup|1992]] and [[1996 Cricket World Cup|1996]] [[Cricket World Cup]]s. Several websites, mistakenly, report that he is [[Ray Illingworth]]'s son but the two are not related.

==Playing career==
Playing mainly as a left-arm [[spin bowling|spinner]], Illingworth made his [[first-class cricket|first-class]] debut in 1982, promoted to the [[Worcestershire County Cricket Club|Worcestershire]] first team after just two Second XI appearances and taking 3–61 against [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]]. His figures that year were fairly modest; eighteen first-class wickets cost him over 45 apiece, and he bowled just eight overs in [[one-day cricket]]; but Worcestershire saw potential and persevered. By 1983, he was a first-team regular, taking forty eight first-class wickets, a figure he improved on (with 57) the following year. He did play one season (1988/89) in the South African [[Currie Cup (cricket)|Currie Cup]] for [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], but otherwise played only English domestic cricket.

For most of his twenty-season [[county cricket]] career, Illingworth remained with Worcestershire. Perhaps the highlights of his county career came when the county won the [[County Championship]] in 1988 and 1989. After he failed to win a contract extension in 2000, the last two years of his time in the first-class game were spent with [[Derbyshire County Cricket Club|Derbyshire]]. He finished with 831 wickets at an average of 31.54, and more than 7,000 runs at 22.45, including four first-class centuries.

===One-Day International career===
In 1990, Illingworth had his most productive year, taking 75 wickets at a [[bowling average]] of 28.29, and he went on that winter's [[England Lions cricket team|A team]] tour to [[Pakistan]] and [[Sri Lanka]]. The following season, a well-timed burst of 5–49 against [[Northamptonshire County Cricket Club|Northants]] in a May [[National League (cricket)|Sunday League]] game helped to win him selection for the 1991 Texaco Trophy [[One Day International]] series against [[West Indian cricket team|West Indies]] a few days later. He played a crucial part in the match, allowing the tourists just 20 runs from his ten overs for the wicket of [[Jeff Dujon]], and then putting on an unbroken partnership of 23 with [[Mike Atherton]] as England recorded a thrilling [[The result in cricket|one-wicket victory]].

Illingworth went onto play for England in two [[Cricket World Cup]]s, in 1992 and 1996. During the 1992 World Cup, Illingworth played in the final, giving away 50 runs in his 10 overs for the wicket of [[Javed Miandad]], and also catching [[Imran Khan]] at long-on. In the same match, he had the misfortune of being the last man dismissed as England fell short in the final for the third time.

===Test career===
Although his performances in the other two Texaco Trophy matches of 1991 were less impressive, he did take the wickets of [[Richie Richardson]] and a young [[Brian Lara]] in the seven-wicket win at [[Lord's]], and also held a catch off [[Phil DeFreitas]] to remove captain [[Viv Richards]]. Illingworth missed out on selection for the first two [[Test cricket|Test matches]] that year, but was selected for the Third Test at [[Trent Bridge]], and took the wicket of [[Phil Simmons]] with his first ball in [[Test cricket]], the first bowler since [[Intikhab Alam]] in 1959/60 to achieve this feat, and only the eleventh of all time.<ref name="Cap">{{cite book |title=If The Cap Fits |last=Bateman |first=Colin |year=1993 |publisher=Tony Williams Publications |isbn=1-869833-21-X |page=[https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/98 98] |url=https://archive.org/details/ifcapfits0000unse/page/98 }}</ref> He also bowled Richards on his way to 3–110, but two stubborn rearguard displays with the bat (adding 42 with [[Robin Smith (cricketer)|Robin Smith]] in the first innings and 38 with DeFreitas in the second) could not prevent England sliding to a nine-wicket loss.

Illingworth retained his place for the Fourth Test at [[Edgbaston Cricket Ground|Edgbaston]], batting at number 11; this match was notable for the fact that all eleven England players had a first-class century to their name. Despite this, England were easily beaten, Illingworth going for almost five runs an over and picking up just one wicket in the match. He was dropped for [[The Oval]], and replaced by [[Phil Tufnell]]. Tufnell took 6–25 in the first innings of that match to help propel England to a series-levelling win. Illingworth did not to play another Test until 1995, although he retained his one-day place for a couple of years, and did well in the 1992 [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]].

By 1995, Illingworth had been out of the England side for two years, but the selectors were impressed by his reliable performances for his county, and called him up for the Test series against West Indies. He played in all but the Fourth Test (for which he was replaced by [[John Emburey]]), and the Sixth Test (for which he was incapacitated by injury). He won plaudits in this series for joining [[Mike Watkinson]] in a last-wicket stand in the Fifth Test which helped to ensure a drawn Test (and ultimately a drawn series), in spite of an injured finger. [[Christopher Martin-Jenkins]] praised "Illingworth`s courageous defiance of doctor`s orders".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1995/WI_IN_ENG/WI_ENG_T5_10-14AUG1995_MR |title=England v West Indies, Test 5|access-date=15 Mar 2022}}</ref> Although his series bowling figures of 6–215 were not particularly outstanding, he was selected for the winter tour to South Africa. It proved a good choice: Illingworth had his best series for England, taking nine Test wickets at an average of under 21. He also appeared four times in the 1996 [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]], but thereafter the selectors' preference turned decisively to Tufnell, and Illingworth never played international cricket again.

==Umpiring career==
Illingworth was appointed to the [[England and Wales Cricket Board|ECB]] full list of first-class umpires for the [[2006 English cricket season]].<ref name="cricinfo2">{{cite web|url=http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/222989.html|title=First-class umpires named for 2006|date=24 October 2005|publisher=Cricinfo|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> As at the end of the [[2008 English cricket season]] Illingworth had umpired 47 first-class matches.<ref name="cricketarchive1">{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/1/1992/Umpire_in_First-Class_Matches.html|title=Richard Illingworth as Umpire in First-Class Matches|publisher=Cricketarchive.com|access-date=6 March 2009}}</ref> It was confirmed that he, and [[Richard Kettleborough]], were promoted onto the [[International Panel of Umpires and Referees|ICC International list]] on 9 November 2009. Richard Illingworth joined ICC's elite umpire panel on 25 June 2013.

He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the [[2015 Cricket World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2014/media-releases/83319/icc-announces-match-officials-for-icc-cricket-world-cup-2015|title= ICC announces match officials for ICC Cricket World Cup 2015|publisher= ICC Cricket|date= 2 December 2014|access-date= 12 February 2015|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150330201852/http://www.icc-cricket.com/news/2014/media-releases/83319/icc-announces-match-officials-for-icc-cricket-world-cup-2015|archive-date= 30 March 2015|df= dmy-all}}</ref> In April 2019, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires to stand in matches during the [[2019 Cricket World Cup]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/1198051 |title=Match officials for ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup 2019 announced |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=26 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/1182149.html |title=Umpire Ian Gould to retire after World Cup |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=26 April 2019}}</ref> In July 2019, he was named as one of the two on-field umpires for the first semi-final match, between [[India national cricket team|India]] and [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealand]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/1266863 |title=Officials appointed for ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup semi-finals |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=7 July 2019}}</ref> He was declared ICC Umpire of the year for 2019 and won the David Shepherd Trophy.

In January 2021, Illingworth was named as one of the umpires for the Test matches between [[West Indian cricket team in Bangladesh in 2020–21|Bangladesh and the West Indies]], the first time since the start of the [[COVID-19 pandemic]] that a neutral umpire was named for a Test series.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/ban-vs-wi-2020-21-richard-illingworth-to-become-first-neutral-umpire-in-test-cricket-since-covid-19-pandemic-1249164 |title=Richard Illingworth to become first neutral umpire in Test cricket since Covid-19 pandemic |work=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=25 January 2021}}</ref> In June 2021, Illingworth was named as one of the on-field umpires for the [[2021 ICC World Test Championship Final]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/media-releases/2167649 |title=Match officials for ICC World Test Championship Final announced |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=8 June 2021}}</ref> He also officiated at the 2023 WTC final at the Oval.

==See also==
* [[List of Test cricket umpires]]
* [[List of One Day International cricket umpires]]
* [[List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Cricinfo|id=15383}}

{{Elite Panel of ICC Umpires}}
{{ICC Umpire of the Year}}
{{England Squad 1992 Cricket World Cup}}
{{England Squad 1996 Cricket World Cup}}
{{ECB Umpires List}}

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