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About Dick French
- Richard Allan (Dick) French (born 7 August 1938 in Sydney, New South Wales) is an Australian Test cricket match umpire. He umpired 19 Test matches between 1977 and 1987.
- His first match was between Australia and India at Perth on 16 December to 21 December 1977, won by Australia by 2 wickets with Tony Mann becoming the first Australian night-watchman to score a century, and the 41-year-old Bob Simpson scoring his 1st century for 10 years, having come out of retirement to lead an Australian team depleted by defections to World Series Cricket.
- His partner was Robin Bailhache. French’s last Test match was between Australia and New Zealand at Melbourne on 26 December to 30 December 1987, a drawn match with the last Australian batsmen (Craig McDermott and Mike Whitney).
- Richard Hadlee took 10 wickets for the match.
- French’s colleague was Tony Crafter. French also umpired 57 One Day International (ODI) matches between 1979 and 1988. He umpired 68 first-class matches in his career between 1976 and 1988. French is NSW State Director of Umpiring, and a current member of the Cricket Australia Umpire Selection Panel and its Technical Committee. He attended Sydney Boys High School, graduating in 1953.
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