00:00Famous cricket umpire Dickie Bird passed away at the age of 92 on the 22nd of September with his
00:10funeral taking place at St Mary's Church in his hometown of Barnsley. In attendance were many
00:16guests from the world of cricket and in particular from Yorkshire County Cricket Club where Bird was
00:22revered for much of his time in the game. Injuries had prevented promising careers in football and
00:29then cricket for Bird when he was younger before he went on to be one of the best known cricket
00:36umpires in the world. He was known for his high standards in the game of cricket but also for his
00:43sense of humour and being able to talk to anyone who wanted to chat to him. Two famous former cricketers
00:51for both Yorkshire and England Michael Vaughan and Sir Geoffrey Boycott were on hand to offer their
00:57thoughts following Bird's passing last month with Vaughan praising Bird's character and personality.
01:08Just such a great character um you know you could argue he was married to cricket married to Yorkshire
01:13cricket uh his home was headingly uh so he's going to be greatly missed. Yeah we did even he was such a
01:19i mean i remember as a young player just uh having times of difficulty not scoring too many runs i might
01:25get 10 or a 12 and he saw you're playing great he'd always tell you that you were playing great so he
01:30had a positive uh kind of influence on everybody and obviously that little seat that he has at
01:35headingly uh it's going to be void but we'll give him a great standoff today. Sport there's bound to be
01:40lots of pressurized moments lots of stress players don't get the wrong way do they you know i'm batting i don't
01:49want to be given out bowlers want you to be giving them out so there's a lot of emotion and passion and
01:55you want somebody to fool it stay calm take the sting out of it not taking people's names and
02:04you know reporting them or bad language there's no women or children there it's just guys having sport
02:1210 situations it was brilliant i think he didn't know it was that's the great thing he didn't know
02:20he's gonna be a great umpire because he'd been an average candidate because of his nerve
02:25he became a great umpire great with people sorry i was all right until the coffin passed me
02:33bird's coffin was then brought into the church as the many in attendance watched on
02:53so
03:03bird's eulogy was then read out by colin graves chair of yorkshire county cricket club
03:28a true legend around the world as we've already heard it's an honor today for me to deliver this
03:34eulogy on behalf of the club and its members as we all respect it and are now from stewards
03:42office staff players and ground staff if he was one of the family he was a part of the club's father
03:51and he will be missed greatly by everyone in the club but it will never be forgotten
03:56and he was always the same from royalties to politicians to superstars to everyone in
04:11the world as a market if he was a national and your treasure what you saw is what you got he was warm
04:21very emotional with a sense of union maintaining his charlest right up to his passing as an
04:30international empire he was revered and respected around the world
04:43uh
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