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About Col Hoy
- Colin Hoy (9 May 1922 at Windsor, Queensland – 24 March 1999 at Brisbane, Queensland), was an Australian cricket Test match umpire, the first Queenslander to be appointed. Hoy took to umpiring after becoming frustrated by a run of batting failures in Brisbane's grade cricket competition, and stood in his debut First-class match in January 1952. He umpired nine Test matches between 1954 and 1961.
- His first match was between Australia and England at Brisbane on 26 November to 1 December 1954, won by Australia by an innings with centuries to Neil Harvey and Arthur Morris.
- Hoy's partner in this match was Mel McInnes. Johnnie Moyes, writing in 1959 when Hoy was a current Test umpire, stated that "he is young, has excellent eyesight and the keenness to study his art.
- … He should be in the forefront for years." His last Test match – in front of a world record crowd of over 90,000 on the second day - was between Australia and the West Indies on 10 February to 15 February 1961, a close match won by Australia by 2 wickets.
- In this most dramatic of all Test series, Hoy stood in every Test with Col Egar.
- In the first Test, at Brisbane, Hoy gave Ian Meckiff run out to record the first tie in Test history.
- The West Indies' captain Frank Worrell was full of praise for the calm and unobtrusive competence of the umpiring in that tension-filled series. After that series, Hoy retired from umpiring to concentrate on business and grade cricket in Brisbane, playing for the Valley District Cricket Club until 1988.
- He returned to umpiring for the World Series Cricket tour of 1978-79.
- His working life was spent in the retail trade and with Ansett Airlines, and he was the Australian rules football reporter for the Brisbane Courier-Mail.
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