Herbert Elphinstone

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Herbert Alfred Rhys (Herb) Elphinstone (or Elphinston) (born 25 February 1905 at Sydney, New South Wales; died 8 July 1966 at Sydney, New South Wales), was an Australian cricket Test match umpire.

He umpired ten Test matches between 1948 and 1953. His first match was between Australia and India at Melbourne on 1 January to 5 January 1948, a match comfortably won by Australia with Don Bradman scoring a century in each innings. Elphinstone’s partner in this match was Andy Barlow.

His last match was between Australia and South Africa at Sydney on 9 January to 13 January 1953, where the home team won by an innings with Neil Harvey scoring 190 and Ray Lindwall taking 8 wickets. Mel McInnes was Elphinstone’s partner in this match.

Herb Elphinstone was a leader in intervening against persistent use of short-pitched deliveries (bouncers) by fast bowlers, resulting in Australian first-class umpires being given more power to intervene against intimidatory bowling.