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Jeff Luck

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ16980041 ↗
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Jeffery James Luck (born 13 October 1956) is a South African-born Namibian cricket umpire. He stood in his first One Day International match, between Canada and the Netherlands, in South Africa on 26 November 2006. His Twenty20 International umpiring debut match, between Afghanistan and Ireland, was in Dubai on 9 February 2010.

In July 2019, Luck won the Administrator of the Year prize at Cricket Namibia's annual awards.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jeff Luck” 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.