Tom Flynn (umpire)
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Thomas Flynn (c. 1849[1] – 21 April 1931) was an Australian cricket umpire who officiated four Test matches involving the Australian cricket team in the later part of the 19th century.
Umpiring career[edit]
Flynn made his Test match debut in the game between Australia and England that took place in Melbourne from 1 January 1892; his umpiring colleague for the match was Jim Phillips.[citation needed] His last Test match, also with Phillips, was in Melbourne on 1 March 1895.[citation needed]
Flynn's appointment to the two Melbourne Cricket Ground Tests in the 1894–95 season proved uncontroversial.[citation needed] In between the two matches he was also nominated to umpire the fourth Test of the series at Sydney, alongside Phillips; the match followed the New South Wales game against Victoria, and Flynn was Victoria's regular umpire in first-class matches between 1891 and 1895.[2] Although he had umpired the New South Wales v Victoria matches at Sydney in the four preceding seasons and had umpired a Test there in 1892, Flynn was refused permission to travel to Sydney by his employer in Melbourne, the Fitzroy Cricket Club, for whom he was the groundsman. The refusal provoked a walk-out by the players at the Fitzroy club as well as seeing editorials written in newspapers. The Sportsman wrote: "We have few enough good umpires, and ... Flynn is in the first flight... He was wanted in Sydney and should have been allowed to proceed there."[3] Flynn did not dispute the Fitzroy club's ruling and did not travel to Sydney, but the club dismissed him anyway, which occasioned further newspaper disapproval.[4] After standing in the Melbourne Test match, Flynn was reported to have been appointed as a groundsman at the East Melbourne Cricket Club; later in 1895, there was a report of him taking the same role at the WACA ground at Perth; but by the end of the year he had left cricket and taken up the running of a hotel in Charters Towers, Queensland, a goldmining boom town at the time.[5][6][7]
Later life and death[edit]
At the time of his death in Charters Towers, Queensland in 1931, he was reported to have been the manager of a meat works.[8]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Tom Flynn at ESPNcricinfo
- ^ "The Home of CricketArchive".
- ^ "Cricket: Jottings, by "Batsman"". The Sportsman (Melbourne). Melbourne. 29 January 1895. p. 6. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "The Fitzroy Cricket Club Imbroglio". The Leader (Melbourne). Melbourne. 23 February 1895. p. 18. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Cricket Crumbs". Bird o'Freedom. Sydney. 23 March 1895. p. 2. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Sporting Notes from various sources". Coolgardie Pioneer. Coolgardie. 22 May 1895. p. 3. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Cricket Chatter". The Australasian. Melbourne. 2 November 1895. p. 22. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Old Timer's Death: Tom Flynn, of Fitzroy". The Sporting Globe. Melbourne. 29 April 1931. p. 9. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via National Library of Australia.
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