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Ian Howell

Ian Howell
Personal information
Full name Ian Lester Howell
Born (1958-05-20) 20 May 1958 (age 59)
Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Left-arm medium
Role Umpire
Domestic team information
Years Team
1984–1998 Border
1981–1984 Eastern Province
First-class debut 7 November 1981
Eastern Province B v Border
Last First-class 26 February 1998 Border v Northerns
List A debut 21 November 1981
Eastern Province v Boland
Last List A 3 January 1998 Border v Gauteng
Umpiring information
Tests umpired 9 (2001–2007)
ODIs umpired 66 (2000–2009)
T20Is umpired 8 (2005–2007)
Career statistics
Competition FC LA
Matches 119 124
Runs scored 3767 1083
Batting average 26.90 15.25
100s/50s 5/13 0/3
Top score 115* 64*
Balls bowled 22567 5997
Wickets 243 87
Bowling average 35.74 42.57
5 wickets in innings 5 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/38 3/23
Catches/stumpings 69/– 31/–
Source: ESPNcricinfo, 9 September 2007

Ian Lester Howell (born 20 May 1958 in Port Elizabeth, Cape Province, South Africa) is a South African cricket umpire. As a player, he played first-class cricket for Border and Eastern Province in South Africa. A left-hand batsman and a left-arm medium bowler he played 119 first-class games scoring 3767 runs with 5 hundreds and 13 fifties and a batting average of 26.90. His top score was 115 not out. He took 243 first-class wickets with 5 five-wicket hauls with a best of 6/38 and a bowling average of 35.74.

Howell has been a member of the International Cricket Council's panel of International Umpires since 2002. He is eligible to officiate in ODI's in South Africa as the home umpire, and as the TV umpire in Test matches. In December 2006 he replaced Mark Benson on-field during a Test match in Centurion when Benson was taken to hospital with heart palpitations, making him the first person to umpire in a Test match in his native country since the introduction of the Elite Panel of umpires in 2002. Howell is also regularly appointed by the ICC to stand in Test matches and ODI's away from South Africa to support the ICC Elite umpire panel at busy times in the cricket calendar. Howell was also appointed to the group stage of the 2007 Cricket World Cup in the West Indies, and officiated in the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship which took place in his native South Africa.


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