Peter Parker (umpire)

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Peter Douglas Parker, (born 20 July 1959 in Herston, Queensland), was an Australian Test cricket match umpire, from Queensland.

He umpired six Test matches between 1993 and 2000. His first match was between Australia and New Zealand at Brisbane on 3 December to 7 December 1993, won by Australia by an innings and 96 runs, with Allan Border and Steve Waugh scoring centuries, and Shane Warne and Craig McDermott taking 8 and 6 wickets respectively. Parker’s partner was Steve Randell.

Parker’s last Test match was between Australia and the West Indies at Perth on 1 December to 3 December 2000, won by Australia by an innings and 27 runs with Mark Waugh scoring a century, and wickets being shared by Glenn McGrath (who took a hat-trick, Brett Lee, Jason Gillespie and Stuart MacGill. Parker’s partner was the English umpire John Hampshire.

Parker umpired 46 one-day international (ODI) matches between 1993 and 2005. Altogether, he has umpired 98 first-class matches in his career between 1986 and December 2005. He is still (January 2006) an active first-class umpire, and is still on the International Cricket Council's International Panel of Umpires and Referees.