I need you to tell me where the Pakistani board accused Hair of being a racist. Cause I can't find it, and I have the strongest suspicion you just pulled that out of your behind. Some people are crying racist, not PCB.
Sorry I thought someone mentioned earlier they had... reading back i see I was mistaken... it was a friday arvo and my brain was already in weekend mode :P
Hmm... so what Hair did was okay and in the rules - something that should be accepted by all boards. Then why is he being kicked out again? Loss of confidence, based on what? If he acted accordingly then the issue stops and there should be no questioning of his skills as an umpire.
Lack of confidence based on his unmatched ability to generate more headlines than the match itself... on his inability to manage people and crisis situations without diving behind the letter of the law.
I compare it to a "regular" cop vs a parking inspector. One is regularly derided while the other is a respected figure (yes i know i'm being idealistic, it's a metaphor try and stay with me). The parking inspector is required to just tick the required boxes and enforce the letter of the law. No one minds greatly because well, in the greater scheme of things it's not such a big deal. A police officer on the other hand has to be able to handle people, handle unexpected, unusual situations and even dangerous situations.
At lower levels of cricket you can have "parking officers" as umpires, as long as they know the rules and apply them correctly no one much minds because there's not a huge deal at stake. When you get to higher levels you need to be a police officer, yes you need to know and be able to apply the rules, but you alos have to do SO much more before you are doing your job effectively.
Most people recognise that the PCB is a disgrace and it must be galling for Hair to see a team fielding drug cheats, pitch tamperers, ball tamperers and a captain with the worst disciplinary record in cricket whilst being umpired by Doctrove BUT he's really pushing **** uphill if he thinks he'll get the ICC to roll over on racism
To be fair mate I don think anyone from Oz should be pointing fingers and criticising sides about playing drug cheats and/or poor disciplinary records
Hair has been strung up for nothing more than following the rules to the letter, as he is supposed to do, and being "difficult to get on with". Never mind the fact that he was the best performing umpire (as in the least decision errors) in the world before he got shafted.
The good thing is that now, the sub-continental teams will be able to act with absolute impunity, knowing that any official that wants to keep his job won't dare enforce such trivial things as the laws of cricket. Won't that be fun.
As long as they aren't allowed to get away with clear-cut infractions, like taking performance enhancing drugs or anything...
Oh- That's right...
Hair has been "strung up" for the reasons I sateted before, I don't know the statistics in terms of error rate (and i suspect you are extracting that assumption from your rear) but I have always considered him a technically mediocre umpire at best - never mind his man and situational managemnt skills.
Such a suggestion is ridiculouos and a vile allegation to level at people of the integrity of Taufel, Bucknor and Bowden, not to mention respected match referees like Broad whom I suspect would leave the game in protest before acting in the way you suggest.
See my above suggestion...
oh that's right.
Hair was not wrong. He and Doctrove were the SOLE judges of whether or not Pakistan had tampered with the ball. They decided that Pakistan should be docked five runs, so they were.
In saying that, assuming that they were both equally guilty, Hair has lost his livelihood and reputation, while Inzamam got to return to his career after a couple of months. Hardly even punishment.
Again we have the same argument from Hair's supporters...
Yes he was not wrong on the field.. as someone said before the umpire is right even when he was wrong. Even the ICC hearing which cleared the Pakistan hearing of the ball tampering charge does not of itself prove that Mr Hair was wrong.
Inzi was punished for his role in the affair, and rightly so (I would argue that he should have received a greater punishment for forfeiting the match but that is another matter).
Hair was not punished for what occurred. He was removed from the panel because the ICC did not believe he was the right sort of person to do the job. This was not a "punishment" it was a decision, when the pakistani selectors decide that Inzi is no longer the right person for the captaincy or for the team then he also will be removed, it's as simple as that really.
