Steve Bucknor Wiki, Height, Age, Wife, Family, Biography, etc.

Steve Bucknor is a Jamaican former international cricket referee and soccer referee. One of the most experienced umpires in cricket history, Bucknor umpired a record 128 Tests, 179 ODIs and five successive World Cups between 1992 and 2007. He was the first umpire to officiate 100 Test matches.

Wiki/Biography

Stephen Anthony Bucknor was born on Friday May 31, 1946.78 years old; As of 2024) Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica. His zodiac sign is Gemini. He loved sports since childhood. Raised by a single mother, Bucknor spent most of his childhood on the playground while his mother was away at work. He attended Cornwall College in Montego Bay, Jamaica. He played as goalkeeper for the Cornwall College football team. He also captained the team. He was a member of the Cornwall College team that won the 1963 DaCosta Cup. He also represented his university in the long jump. Bucknor moved to New York from Jamaica around 2017-18.

physical appearance

Height (approx.): 6 feet 3 inches

Hair Color: black

Eye Color: black

family

parents and siblings

Not much is known about Steve Bucknor’s parents and siblings.

wife and children

On June 10, 1989, Steve Buckner married Leora Buckner.

He has six children. He also has a stepdaughter. His daughters’ names are Suzanne Bucknor, Sasheeka Bucknor, Stephanie Bucknor, Andrae Stephenson, and Shari Ri Ri. Sasheeka Bucknor worked for Air Jamaica. His son Sta-Bee British (Sean) is a professional soccer player.

religion

Steve Bucknor follows Christianity.

job

After completing his formal education, he went to St. Petersburg. I worked as a math and physical education teacher at Elizabeth Technical High School (STETHS).

soccer

Steve Bucknor started his sports career with football. As a footballer, he played as a goalkeeper in the Jamaica Parish League in the 1960s. In 1964, he played as goalkeeper for Jamaica in a schoolboys international match against Brazil, which ended in a 1–1 draw. He later became the football coach at Cornwall College. From 1981 to 1991, he won six Da Costa Cup titles.

At the same time, he became a soccer referee. Bucknor was a FIFA referee for the 1988 CONCACAF and World Cup qualifying match between El Salvador and Netherlands Antilles. Bucknor retired from his football career in 1992.

cricket

Bucknor’s first international cricket match was a one-day international cricket match between West Indies and India in Antigua on 18 March 1989. His first Test match was between West Indies and India at Sabina Park in Kingston between 28 April and 3 May 1989. He was selected to referee the 1992 World Cup final after just four Test matches and a few one-day internationals. Bucknor also refereed the next four World Cup finals in 1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007. In 1994, the ICC introduced a policy for Test matches where one umpire would be independent of the competing nation and selected from an international panel of umpires. Bucknor was part of this panel from its inception until the ICC changed its refereeing policy in 2002. Bucknor was one of five officials involved in poor decisions in the 2007 World Cup final, which led to the match being played in poor lighting conditions. As a result, Bucknor, along with four other officials, was suspended from the Twenty20 World Championships in South Africa. Due to his poor decisions, India lost the second Test in Sydney in January 2008 by 122 runs.

After strong protests from the Board of Control for Cricket, Bucknor was excluded from umpiring by the ICC for the third Test between Australia and India in Perth. On 23 February 2009, the ICC announced that Bucknor would retire from refereeing in March 2009. The last Test match he umpired was the Third Test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town from 19 to 23 March 2009. His last ODI match was the 4th ODI between West Indies and England in Barbados on 29 March 2009. Bucknor umpired a record 128. He played Test matches from 1989 to 2009 and officiated in 181 ODIs during this period.

He played in 309 games and had one of the most unique ways to get batters out!

Happy birthday to Steve Buckner! pic.twitter.com/bQqrJl1X6Q

– ICC (@ICC) May 30, 2017

After retirement

After retiring from cricket, he returned to coaching Cornwall College’s DaCosta Cup men’s football team.

Awards, Honors, Achievements

• ICC’s Bronze Bails Award for refereeing 100 ODIs

• Order of Jamaica for outstanding contributions to sport (2007)
  

  Steve Bucknor, recipient of the Order of Jamaica in 2007

• He received the Golden Bails award for umpiring 100 Test matches.

Favorites

• All-round cricketer: Conrad Hunt

• Cricket Stadium: Lord’s Inn London

Facts/Quiz

• His nicknames are Sta-Bee and Gabby.

• He is the first official to serve as both a FIFA referee and the ICC Test cricket empire.

• Bucknor used to play all-round cricket for Montego Bay. He started refereeing because he was angry about the bad decisions he made in his own game. He decided to become an umpire because he wanted cricketers to be treated fairly.

• He was famous for his punctuality. The only time he was late was when he arrived at the venue at 9.05 for an 11am start for an exam at Lord’s.

• In 2002, Bucknor broke Dickie Bird’s record of umpiring in 66 Tests.

• In March 2005, he became the first umpire to officiate 100 Tests.

• Steve Bucknor’s relationship with India deteriorated after the 2008 Sydney Test. Years later, Bucknor said he made two mistakes in that game. He said that the first mistake enabled the Australian batsmen to score 100 runs while the second mistake cost India the match on the fifth day. The batsman Bucknor was talking about was Andrew Symonds, who scored 162 runs. Symonds, who was batting for 30 during Ishant Sharma’s over, hit the ball with his bat and wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni caught it. But Steve Bucknor decided Symonds was out. The second mistake can be mentioned to Rahul Dravid’s wicket on the last day, where replays clearly showed that the ball hit his front knee roll.

• The 2008 Sydney Test was also notable for the Monkeygate controversy, in which Bucknor was involved in a decision against India spinner Harbhajan Singh. Singh was criticized for calling Andrew Symonds a “monkey” and was suspended for three games following the incident. Indian cricket fans then blamed umpires Mark Benson and Steve Buckner for India’s loss of the Test match and burned their effigy.

• Until December 2019, Bucknor held the record for umpiring the most Test matches, but Pakistan’s Aleem Dar broke this record. Aleem Dar officiated in a record 144 Test matches during his career.

• Steve Bucknor has been called a slow death because it took so long for a decision to be made on his appeal.

• In May 2006, Bucknor accused the TV company of altering the image in a way that made referees look bad and key players look good.

• In 2007, Bucknor was nominated for the Referee of the Year award, but Simon Taufel won the award.

• He knelt and prayed on the pitch during South Africa’s last Test against Australia in Cape Town on March 22, 2009, at the end of a 20-year career.
  

  Steve Bucknor kneels in prayer during the final Test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town on March 22, 2009.

• Eleven years after his retirement, Steve Bucknor recalled some poor decisions he made against Sachin Tendulkar in an interview. His decision sparked outrage in India. One mistake occurred in Australia (at the Gabba in Brisbane in 2003) when Tendulkar was incorrectly declared lbw out even though the ball was going over the stumps. Another mistake was during a match at Eden Gardens in Kolkata in 2005 when the batsman mistakenly thought he had nicked the ball for a catch from behind.
  

• In addition to football and cricket, Bucknor is also involved in athletics. In an interview, he said that he would participate in athletics competitions after retiring from cricket. Talking about the same thing, he said:
  

  I run sprints. I have been an athlete since childhood. Running is a part of me… .I do the 200 and 400 meters and am part of a quartet of 4×50 and 4×100 relays. “I also throw the discus and shoot.”

• In an interview, he said that he likes to spend time alone and likes to stay indoors during his free time. He said he likes watching television and writing.