Sorry, but u dont get it - the decision was not proven wrong
Politically unacceptable, unable to be proven by an independent tribunal months after the event, etc - yes
But not wrong.
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
Exactly.
As has been said earlier, the laws of the game appoint the umpires as the sole authority on the field. The laws also give the captain the opportunity to provide a report on the state on the field and the conduct of the umpires after the game.
Inzamam disagreed with a decision made on the field, and could have raised the issue in his post match report to the ICC. Instead of acting in the interests of the game and accepting the umpires' decision, he decided to act like a petulant little child, and took his bat and ball and sulked in the dressing room.
When you refuse to play when the umpires call for play to start, you forfeit the game- just like teams have done in the past two world cups. After 45 minutes of people trying to get Inzamam to pull his head out of his backside and do the right thing, the umpires' accepted Inzamam's decision not to continue, and declared the match forfeited.
THEN the Pakistanis decide that they really DO want to play after all.
Inzamam created the debacle by not doing the one thing that cricketers are (or at least, SHOULD be) taught from day one- the umpire is right, even when he's wrong. He should have played on, and raised his complaint via his report at the end of the game. Trying to claim that the Pakistan team have some claim to the high moral ground is insane.
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...