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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Stephen Grant Randell |
| Born | (1956-09-16)16 September 1956 (age 69) Hobart,Tasmania, Australia |
| Umpiring information | |
| Tests umpired | 36 (1984–1998) |
| ODIs umpired | 88 (1984–1998) |
| WODIs umpired | 1 (1991) |
Source:ESPNcricinfo,11 July 2008 | |
Stephen Grant Randell (born 19 February 1956) is a formerAustralian Test cricket match umpire, the first to come fromTasmania. He was convicted in 1999 of 15 counts ofsexual assault against nine schoolgirls of ages 10–12 while teaching at a Catholicprimary school between 1981 and 1982.
Randell was born inHobart, Tasmania.[1]
He umpired 36Test matches between 1984 and 1998, the highest number by an Australian umpire to that time (the previous highest wasTony Crafter's 33 matches). His umpiring debut was theFourth Test betweenAustralia and theWest Indies atMelbourne from 22-27 December 1984. Randell's partner wasPeter McConnell.[2][3][4][5]
In 1994, theInternational Cricket Council introduced a policy of appointing one umpire to each Test match from a non-participating country. Ten of Randell's matches were played outside Australia, and did not involve Australia. His last Test match involving Australia was againstSouth Africa atAdelaide on 30 January to 3 February 1998, finishing in a draw, with captainMark Taylor dominating the first innings with 169 andMark Waugh scoring a century in the second innings. Randell's colleague was the New Zealander,Doug Cowie.[2][6][7]
Randell's last Test match was betweenZimbabwe andPakistan atHarare on 21–25 March 1998. Randell umpired 88One Day International (ODI) matches between 1984 and 1998. He umpired one women's ODI in 1991. Altogether, he umpired 119 first-class matches in his career between 1980 and 1998.[2][8][9][10]
At the club level, Randell was a left-hand batsman for the South Hobart and Sandy Bay clubs. Off the field he was a school-teacher with the Tasmanian Education Department.[citation needed]
His cricket and professional careers ended when he was convicted in August 1999 of 15 separate counts ofsexual assault against nine schoolgirls of ages 10–12 while teaching at a Catholicprimary school between 1981 and 1982. He was sentenced to four years jail with a two-year minimum, and was released on parole in May 2002.[11][12]
The ACB announced on Tuesday that Darrell Hair, who stood in the Adelaide Test, and Steve Randell had been appointed to the International Cricket Council's umpires' panel. Under the new system, one overseas member of the panel will stand with a local umpire in Test matches.