Full name Richard Allan Kettleborough
Born March 15, 1973, Sheffield, Yorkshire
Current age 45 years 42 days
Major teams Middlesex, Yorkshire, Yorkshire Cricket Board
Nickname Ketts
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Other Umpire
Height 5 ft 10 in
Education Worksop College; Airedale and Wharfdale College, Leeds
Mat | Inns | NO | Runs | HS | Ave | 100 | 50 | Ct | St | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-class | 33 | 56 | 6 | 1258 | 108 | 25.16 | 1 | 7 | 20 | 0 |
List A | 21 | 16 | 4 | 290 | 58 | 24.16 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
Mat | Balls | Runs | Wkts | BBI | BBM | Ave | Econ | SR | 4w | 5w | 10 | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-class | 33 | 378 | 243 | 3 | 2/26 | 81.00 | 3.85 | 126.0 | 0 | 0 | ||
List A | 21 | 270 | 230 | 6 | 2/43 | 2/43 | 38.33 | 5.11 | 45.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
First-class span | 1994 - 1999 |
List A span | 1994 - 2000 |
Test debut | Sri Lanka v West Indies at Galle, Nov 15-19, 2010 scorecard |
Last Test | South Africa v India at Cape Town, Jan 5-8, 2018 scorecard |
Test matches | 50 |
Test statistics | |
ODI debut | England v Australia at Nottingham, Sep 15, 2009 scorecard |
Last ODI | Pakistan v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, Oct 20, 2017 scorecard |
ODI matches | 74 |
ODI statistics | |
T20I debut | England v Australia at Manchester, Aug 30, 2009 scorecard |
Last T20I | India v West Indies at Mumbai, Mar 31, 2016 scorecard |
T20I matches | 22 |
T20I statistics |
Richard Kettleborough was a left-hand top-order batsman and occasional seamer who was on Yorkshire's books for several seasons without being able to make a first-team place his own. His only hundred came at the end of the 1996 summer but the following year he made only three appearances and he moved south to Middlesex where there was an opener's berth up for grabs. He was given an extended run but in 20 matches he only passed fifty five times and he was released at the end of 1999. He continued to play with great success in Yorkshire club cricket and in 2006 he was added to the ECB list of umpires. He made his international umpiring debut in the Twenty20 between England and Australia at Old Trafford in 2009 and was in the panel of 18 umpires for the World Cup in India in 2011. Later the same year, he was promoted to the ICC's Elite Panel and, 38 at the time, was the youngest man in the group. In 2013, just two years after getting into the Elite Panel, Kettleborough won the ICC's Umpire of the Year award.
Martin Williamson
ICC Umpire of the Year (winning the David Shepherd Trophy) 2013, 2014, 2015