Herbert Alfred Rhys Elphinston (25 February 1905 at Sydney, New South Wales – 8 July 1966 at Sydney, New South Wales, was an Australian Test Cricket Umpires. Wife: Miriam. Daughters Joan, Rhonda and Lynne.

He umpired ten Test matches

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...

 between 1948 and 1953. His first match was between Australia

Australian cricket team

The Australian cricket team is the national cricket team of Australia. It is the joint oldest team in Test cricket, having played in the first Test match in 1877...

 and India

Indian cricket team

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 at Melbourne

Melbourne Cricket Ground

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 on 1 January to 5 January 1948, a match comfortably won by Australia with Don Bradman scoring a century in each innings. Elphinston's partner in this match was Andy Barlow

Andrew Barlow

Andrew Nicholas Barlow was a cricket Test match umpire.Barlow was born at Newport, Victoria. He umpired eleven Test matches between 1931 and 1951...

.

His last match was between Australia and South Africa

South African cricket team

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 at Sydney

Sydney Cricket Ground

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 on 9 January to 13 January 1953, where the home team won by an innings with Neil Harvey

Neil Harvey

Robert Neil Harvey MBE is a former Australian cricketer who represented the Australian cricket team between 1948 and 1963, playing in 79 Test matches. He was the vice-captain of the team from 1957 until his retirement...

 scoring 190 and Ray Lindwall taking 8 wickets. Mel McInnes

Mel McInnes

Melville James "Mel" McInnes was an Australian cricket Test match umpire.He umpired 16 Test matches between 1951 and 1959...

 was Elphinston's partner in this match.

Herb Elphinston was a leader in intervening against persistent use of short-pitched deliveries (bouncer

Bouncer (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, a bouncer is a type of delivery, usually bowled by a fast bowler. It is pitched short so that it bounces on the pitch well short of the batsman and rears up to chest or head height as it reaches the batsman.Bouncers are used tactically to drive the batsman back on to his...

s) by fast bowlers, resulting in Australian first-class

First-class cricket

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umpires being given more power to intervene against intimidatory bowling.