Cyril John Mitchley is a former South Africa

South Africa

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n first-class

First-class cricket

First-class cricket is a class of cricket that consists of matches of three or more days' scheduled duration, that are between two sides of eleven players and are officially adjudged first-class by virtue of the standard of the competing teams...

 and Test

Test cricket

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 cricket umpire. After a short playing career for Transvaal

Transvaal cricket team

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 as a wicket-keeper

Wicket-keeper

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, he became an umpire, culminating with him becoming a Test cricket umpire. Between 1992 and 2000, he stood in 26 Test matches and 61 One Day Internationals (ODIs). He later became an ICC match referee, officiating on four ODIs, all in 2007.