David Byas is an English

English people

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 first-class cricket

First-class cricket

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er, who played for Yorkshire

Yorkshire County Cricket Club

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 and latterly Lancashire

Lancashire County Cricket Club

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.

Byas grew up as a farmer in Yorkshire. He was a left-handed batsman who, very occasionally, bowled right-arm medium pace. He was appointed Yorkshire's captain

Captain (cricket)

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 at the start of the 1996 season, following the resignation of Martyn Moxon

Martyn Moxon

Martyn Douglas Moxon is a former English cricketer, who played ten Tests and eight One Day Internationals for England and appeared for Yorkshire for 17 seasons from 1981 to 1997...

. In 2001, he led the county to their first County Championship

County Championship

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 title win for thirty three years. He has since returned to Yorkshire as a coach.

In April 2007, the ECB

England and Wales Cricket Board

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 appointed him to train umpires

Umpire (cricket)

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, even though he had had no regular experience of performing as an umpire.

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