Stephen John Woodward is a New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 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...

 who stood in 24 Test matches

Test cricket

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Born in New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

, his first Test match was the New Zealand v Pakistan test at Napier

Napier, New Zealand

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 in 1979, while his last came in the New Zealand v Sri Lanka test at Wellington

Wellington

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 in 1991. He also stood in 30 one day internationals and officiated in New Zealand domestic cricket. Unusually for an umpire, he had no experience as a player at first class level.

Woodward was umpiring at the other end during the acrimonious second Test between West Indies and New Zealand at Christchurch in February 1980, in which the West Indies protested against the umpiring of Fred Goodall

Fred Goodall

Frederick Robert Goodall is a former international cricket umpire from New Zealand who officiated in 24 Tests and 15 one-day internationals between 1965 and 1988...

. The West Indies team were disappointed at several of Goodall's decisions in the first Test which West Indies lost narrowly. After similar complaints in the second Test, the West Indies refused to return to the field after tea on the third day. After 11 minutes, they were persuaded to resume. The next day was a rest day. Colin Croft

Colin Croft

Colin Everton Hunte Croft is a former West Indian cricketer. He provides expert analysis on the British Broadcasting Corporation's Test Match Special.-Cricket career:...

collided with Goodall at the end of his bowling run-up during the fourth day's play.