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<p align="center"><span style="font-size: 8pt">David Shepherd</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table>Things you didn't know about umpire David Shepherd, who passed away in England yesterday. Cancer took away another cricketing gem.<br /><br />Shepherd's parents ran the village post office in Devon.<br /><br />He was a genial man but was hard-hitting when it came to batting for Gloucester. Once, he hit the ball so hard it knocked out a spectator reading a newspaper in the crowd.<br /><br />He scored a hundred on his county debut.<br /><br />Shepherd was to be given special dispensation by the ICC to umpire in an England Test at Lord's as his final match, but he turned down the opportunity in order to maintain the neutral umpiring policy.<br /><br />There is a statue dedicated to him near Lord's Cricket Ground in London.<br />Courtesy: thisisnorthdevon.co.uk

Things you didn't know about umpire David Shepherd, who passed away in England yesterday. Cancer took away another cricketing gem.

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