Bruce Oxenford


Bruce Nicholas James Oxenford is an Australian cricket umpire and a former cricketer. He has been an ICC international umpire since 2008, when he first umpired an ODI match. He went on to stand in his first Test match in 2010. On 26 September 2012, he was promoted to the ICC Elite Umpire Panel, the highest umpiring body in the game of cricket, replacing his fellow Australian Simon Taufel, who retired from the panel to take up a newly created ICC supervisory and training position.

Playing career

Oxenford played in eight first-class matches for Queensland during the 1991/92 and 1992/93 seasons.

Umpiring career

Oxenford began umpiring in 1998 and went on to make his first-class umpiring debut in 2001. He was appointed to Cricket Australia's 12-man National Umpire Panel in 2003 and in 2007–08 was appointed to ICC International Panel of Umpires in the third umpire category.
His first Test match was in December 2010 between Sri Lanka and West Indies at Pallekele. He was elevated to the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires in 2012. He was selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the 2015 Cricket World Cup.
On 30 August 2018, he officiated in his 50th Test as an on-field umpire, in the match between England and India.
In April 2019, he was named as one of the sixteen umpires to stand in matches during the 2019 Cricket World Cup.