Adrian Holdstock (born 27 April 1970) is a South African cricket umpire and former cricketer who now serves as an ICC international cricket umpire. He is part of Cricket South Africa's umpire panel for first-class matches.
Career
Holdstock played for Western Province between 1989 and 1993 before playing for Boland from 1993 to 1995. After retiring as a cricketer, Holdstock took up umpiring. He made his list A umpiring debut in 2006 and his first class debut in 2007.
In 2011, Holdstock made his international Twenty20 debut. He umpired in three One Day International games in 2013. In January 2020, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup tournament in South Africa.
On 26 December 2020, Holdstock stood in his first Test match as an umpire, in the first Test between South Africa and Sri Lanka.
He was selected as one of the match officials for 2021 ICC Men's T20 World Cup. In March 2023, Holdstock and Ahsan Raza from Pakistan were inducted into the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires after Aleem Dar left the panel.
He was one of the sixteen match officials for 2023 Cricket World Cup.
See also
- List of Test cricket umpires
- List of One Day International cricket umpires
- List of Twenty20 International cricket umpires
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