Chris Gaffaney

Chris Gaffaney
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Blair Gaffaney
Born	30 November 1975 (age 48); Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand
Batting style	Right-handed batsman
Bowling style	Batsman, Umpire
Domestic team information
1995–2005	Otago
First-class debut	17 January 1996 Otago v Auckland
Last First-class	20 March 2005 Otago v Wellington
List A debut	26 November 1995 Otago v Wellington
Last List A	10 February 2007 Otago v Auckland
Umpiring information
Tests umpired	6 (2014–2016)
ODIs umpired	43 (2010–2015)
T20Is umpired	15 (2010–2014)
Career statistics
	Source: CricketArchive, 3 January 2016

Christopher Blair Gaffaney (born 30 November 1975) is a former New Zealand cricketer who played for the Otago Volts. A right-handed batsman, he played in 83 First-Class matches and 113 List-A matches. At present he serves as an international cricket umpire. Gaffaney is currently a member of the ICC Elite umpire panel and officiates in Tests, ODIs and T20Is.

Gaffaney made his ODI umpiring debut in a match played between Canada and Ireland at Toronto in September 2010. He served as an umpire on the ICC International Panel of Umpires and later stood in his first Test match in a game between Zimbabwe and South Africa at Harare in August 2014.

Gaffaney was thereafter selected as one of the twenty umpires to stand in matches during the 2015 Cricket World Cup and stood in three matches as an on-field umpire during the tournament.^[1] A few months later he was elevated to the ICC Elite umpire panel for 2015-16 as a result of his several consistent performances.^[2]