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James Draper (umpire)

Umpire (1925-2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ15992919 ↗
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James Draper (9 March 1925 – 10 January 2013) was a South African cricket umpire. Making his umpiring debut in 1964, he stood in five Test matches, officiating in his last Test in 1970.

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This entry incorporates text from “James Draper (umpire)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.