Ralph Gosein

Ralph Godfrey Gosein (1931 – 27 August 1999) was a West Indian cricket umpire. He umpired in 25 Test matches between 1965 and 1978. Gosein was born in Trinidad and educated at Fatima College. He began umpiring in 1954, having been encouraged to do so by his colleague at the Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Eric Lee Kow. His first Test match as an umpire came in 1965, at the Queen's Park Oval in Port-of-Spain, featuring the West Indies against Bobby Simpson's touring Australians. With Douglas Sang Hue, he umpired the 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. 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.