Hair banned

[Omac]

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/266878.html

This is certainly good news. It is clear that a deserved apology from the ICC to Pakistan and Inzi will not be forthcomming. If it wasn't for them and their actions, we would still have the aussie knob spoiling international cricket matches.

 

[Boodles]

Actaully its not good news. Who wants a clear and consise cricket match?

We want contraversy, flare-ups, and the umpire that everyone hates, and unfortunatley, Darryls' personality allowed him to be the chosen one.

And, actaully, no australians are knobs.

 

[Omac]

Actaully its not good news. Who wants a clear and consise cricket match?

We want contraversy, flare-ups, and the umpire that everyone hates, and unfortunatley, Darryls' personality allowed him to be the chosen one.

And, actaully, no australians are knobs.

lol

Yeah! I'd rather the players provided the controversy and not that tosser!


Oh! We'll have to agree to disagree on Hair being a knob.

and don't give me a wiki definition.

 

[stormer208]

Well he made a few mistakes, but this is madness. I don't know why everybody is suddenly taking Pakistan's side in the matter. They were wrong in walking of the field. And now everybody is feeling sorry for them. I'm sorry but I think what Pakistan did is a disgrace for world cricket.

 

[Skeptik]

I think Hair was right. He was getting fed up with the Pakis tampering with the ball. They did this numerous times. If you look at the time line, the Pakis escalated the issue rather than the other way around.
Who's going to keep them in check now?

 

[Highflyer_GP]

To be honest I don't care whether Hair or Pakistan were right or wrong. I think that the game is better off without this idiot, he makes consistently bad decisions and the only people who will disagree with that are the Australians.

Rudi Koertzen, Steve Bucknor, Simon Tauffel and Billy Bowden are examples of what umpires should aspire to be.

 

[Omac]

Gone tomorrow? News of an old friend. Controversial Australian umpire Darrell Hair is back in cricket, officiating in a four-day game between Canada and the Netherlands in Ontario. Hair was voted off the ICC’s elite panel in November last year for his handling of the ball-tampering incident in the test match between England and Pakistan nearly a year ago. An indication of how far Hair has slid is that he is listed to stand alongside Roger Dill, a 49-year-old Bermudan fire fighter. Hair is allegedly taking his case to a London employment tribunal, claiming racial discrimination by the ICC cost him his livelihood.

An extract from here.

Also here.

He must be joking.



and this from here.

Racial discrimination charges
In February 2007 Hair announced he was suing the ICC and the Pakistan Cricket Board on grounds of racial discrimination. Hair feels he was made a scapegoat when he was barred from officiating Test matches after the forfeited Oval Test between England and Pakistan in August, as no action was taken against his fellow umpire Billy Doctrove who officiated in the same match.[53]

The statement from Darrell Hair [54]:

"I can confirm I have instructed my lawyers, Finers Stephens Innocent, 179 Portland Street, London, to issue an application to the London Central Employment Tribunal," he said, "alleging racial discrimination from the International Cricket Council and the Pakistan Cricket Board. Therefore it is inappropriate for me to make further comment as this matter is yet to be determined by the tribunal."

"I haven't spoken to anybody about this. I hope you understand that I haven't released any information about this. Somebody else obviously has. I've got no idea who but I value confidentially, unfortunately I've discovered other people don't."


In response to this move by Darrell Hair, Dr. Naseem Ashraf, chairman PCB, said "Mr Hair was removed from the ICC panel of umpires because of his bad umpiring and his poor judgement,"[55]

In a statement in reply to the notification of Hair against PCB , Dr.Naseem Ashraf further went on to say

"It is crass for him to say a black West Indian was let off [whereas] he was a white man and therefore he was charged. Mr Hair was the senior umpire and he literally took over that Oval cricket match. I was present there. "There was only one man that evening that did not want cricket to be played. [It was] a black spot on the history of cricket thanks to Mr Hair."

 

[Omac]

Hair says his life has been 'hell'

http://www.supercricket.co.za/default.asp?id=230854&des=article&scat=supercricket/international

Hair filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against the ICC in February when a statement from his solicitor said "he would not have been treated in this way if he had not been a white umpire".

The ICC strenuously denies the allegation.

http://www.supercricket.co.za/default.asp?id=230929&des=article&scat=supercricket/international

Hair's lawyer told the tribunal in London on Monday that the ICC bowed to pressure from a bloc of Asian countries when it effectively sacked his client in the aftermath of the abandonment of the Oval test last year.

Hair's lawyer told the London Central Employment Tribunal that his client suffered racial discrimination at the hands of the ICC, which was heavily influenced by the Indian and Pakistani boards.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2570585.ece

Darrell Hair’s “dignity has been violated” and the Australian umpire “has suffered personally and financially” as a result of the ICC bowing to pressure from the Asian cricketing nations to prevent him from standing in Test matches for the past year, an employment tribunal in London was told yesterday.

Hair claims that he was denied employment on racially discriminatory grounds after the Test match between England and Pakistan at the Brit Oval in August last year was abandoned in the wake of Pakistan’s refusal to take the field, having been accused by the umpires of ball-tampering.

While Hair has not been allowed to stand as an official in internationals involving full ICC members, Billy Doctrove, his colleague in the middle at the Oval during the fourth Test, has continued to umpire at the highest level. Hair contends that because Doctrove is a black West Indian, the ICC treated him differently.

Just a wee update!