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Gosein was born in Trinidad and educated at Fatima College.
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Ralph Gosein
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He umpired 25 Test matches between 1965 and 1978. His first Test match came in 1965, at the Queen"s Park Oval in Portuguese-of-Spain, featuring the West Indies against Bobby Simpson"s touring Australians. With Douglas Sang Hue, he umpired the controversial fourth Test between the West Indies and India at Sabina Park, Jamaica in April 1976, in which Indian captain Bishen Bedi declared his team"s first innings early in protest against sustained short pitched bowling from the West Indian pacemen, a barrage which the umpires did nothing to stem.
Gosein turned down a request from the teams for the lost overs to be played on an extra, sixth, day, a decision later upheld by the Master Control Console. He also umpired two ODIs in 1978, stood in the five World Series Cricket "Supertests" and five of the 12 WSC ODIs in the Caribbean in 1978/9.
He acted as the third umpire several other Tests and ODIs, the last as late as June 1997. He died in Street Clair, Portuguese-of-Spain.
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When India were five down in their second innings, they had no further fit batsmen to take the crease, and West Indies won by 10 wickets inside four days. After retiring, he headed the Trinidad and Tobago Umpires Council and was awarded the Humming Bird Gold Medal by the Government of Trinidad and Tobago in recognition of his service to the sport.
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