Edward Albert Nicholls (born 10 December 1947 in British Guiana

Guyana

Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...

) is an international Test

Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. Test matches are played between national representative teams with "Test status", as determined by the International Cricket Council , with four innings played between two teams of 11 players over a period of up to a maximum five days...

 and One Day International cricket umpire

Umpire (cricket)

In cricket, an umpire is a person who has the authority to make judgements on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket...

. Nicholls officiated in 17 Tests from 1997 to 2001 and 46 ODIs from 1995 to 2005. Nicholls is one of four West Indian umpires on the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

's elite panel of international umpires.

A former police officer, Nicholls played club cricket for the Guyanese police force cricket team. He is married and has a son and two daughters.

External links

• Eddie Nicholls bio