Lou Rowan, umpire at the first ever ODI, passes away aged 91 Lou Rowan, the former Australian umpire who officiated in the first ever One-Day International – played between Australia and England at Melbourne Cricket Ground on January 5, 1971 – passed away on Friday (February 3), aged 91. Rowan umpired in 26 Test matches apart from that one ODI, and later worked as a drug squad(समूह)
detective on the Gold Coast in Queensland during the 1970s and 1980s. Rowan is best remembered for officiating in the controversial seventh Test of 1970-71 Ashes series in Sydney where John Snow, the English paceman, was attacked by a member of the crowd, which prompted the English team led by Ray Illingworth to walk off the field.
It was only when Rowan threatened (धमकी दी) England that they would be forced to forfeit(अर्थदंड) the match if they didn’t return that the match continued.
Rowan had earlier warned Snow (हिमपात) after the pacer hit Terry Jenner, the Australian lower-order batsman, in the head with a bouncer.
It was Rowan’s last appearance in a Test match.
“It is not a happy thought that, as an umpire, I might have been the spark to explode Anglo-Australian Test cricket relations to smithereens,” explained Rowan later in his book The Umpire’s Story. “But I have no regrets for my part in the affair; I would act no differently in similar circumstances now, whether at club or international cricket level.
“But cricket had a close shave that day at the SCG, a mighty close one when one considers how easily events far less acrimonious than Ray Illingworth’s had been built into international incidents … I had to act, as I have repeatedly done in my job as a policeman in Brisbane and elsewhere, in the interests of maintaining the peace.”
Snow, however, took a dim view of Rowan warning him for the bouncer in his book Cricket Rebel: “He could not distinguish between bouncers bowled with a cricket ball and those in a dance hall.”
Rowan also entered the history books after calling Australian paceman Ian Meckiff for chucking during the Brisbane Test against South Africa in December 1963, which led to Meckiff ending his career after 18 Test matches at the age of 28.
detective on the Gold Coast in Queensland during the 1970s and 1980s. Rowan is best remembered for officiating in the controversial seventh Test of 1970-71 Ashes series in Sydney where John Snow, the English paceman, was attacked by a member of the crowd, which prompted the English team led by Ray Illingworth to walk off the field.
It was only when Rowan threatened (धमकी दी) England that they would be forced to forfeit(अर्थदंड) the match if they didn’t return that the match continued.
Rowan had earlier warned Snow (हिमपात) after the pacer hit Terry Jenner, the Australian lower-order batsman, in the head with a bouncer.
It was Rowan’s last appearance in a Test match.
“It is not a happy thought that, as an umpire, I might have been the spark to explode Anglo-Australian Test cricket relations to smithereens,” explained Rowan later in his book The Umpire’s Story. “But I have no regrets for my part in the affair; I would act no differently in similar circumstances now, whether at club or international cricket level.
“But cricket had a close shave that day at the SCG, a mighty close one when one considers how easily events far less acrimonious than Ray Illingworth’s had been built into international incidents … I had to act, as I have repeatedly done in my job as a policeman in Brisbane and elsewhere, in the interests of maintaining the peace.”
Snow, however, took a dim view of Rowan warning him for the bouncer in his book Cricket Rebel: “He could not distinguish between bouncers bowled with a cricket ball and those in a dance hall.”
Rowan also entered the history books after calling Australian paceman Ian Meckiff for chucking during the Brisbane Test against South Africa in December 1963, which led to Meckiff ending his career after 18 Test matches at the age of 28.
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