BREAKING NEWS: Hair removed from the Elite Panel

[Lillian Thomson]

And a long history in getting it right

In the first series that used the Third Umpire for Run Outs he failed to refer a close call that was shown to be out. That's not just Human error, it's arrogant stupidity. In a series between the West Indies and England he gave Jimmy Adams and Curtley Ambrose out LBW to balls pitched miles wide of the Off Stump. He had to be guessing and the commentators said he just got fed up with seeing the batsman pad everything away.

 

[social]

He used to be good umpire, but he's been pretty bad for a while now IMO.

To be fair, there's not too many better - Doctrove, Rudi, Bucknor, Bowden, Dar, etc have all made more howlers but none as controversial

 

[social]

In the first series that used the Third Umpire for Run Outs he failed to refer a close call that was shown to be out. That's not just Human error, it's arrogant stupidity. In a series between the West Indies and England he gave Jimmy Adams and Curtley Ambrose out LBW to balls pitched miles wide of the Off Stump. He had to be guessing and the commentators said he just got fed up with seeing the batsman pad everything away.

How is that any worse than Rudi refusing to refer decisions to the 3rd umpire during the super test and subsequently being shown to have ****ed up any no. of decisions or any of the multitude of shockers than Bucknor has made in the past few years?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

How is that any worse than Rudi refusing to refer decisions to the 3rd umpire during the super test and subsequently being shown to have ****ed up any no. of decisions or any of the multitude of shockers than Bucknor has made in the past few years?

Any refusal to refer a Run Out is equally inexcusible, but the LBW's weren't just incorrect decisions, he just suddenly decided to start firing the batsman out when batsman on both sides had been padding away identical deliveries during the whole match.

 

[_TiGeR-ToWn_]

Any refusal to refer a Run Out is equally inexcusible, but the LBW's weren't just incorrect decisions, he just suddenly decided to start firing the batsman out when batsman on both sides had been padding away identical deliveries during the whole match.

What a load of crap! Show me where he said that? Please stop with the assumptions it just makes you look ridiculous.

Hair has been the victim of the power of the sub-continent, simple as that.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

What a load of crap! Show me where he said that? Please stop with the assumptions it just makes you look ridiculous.

Off course he didn't say it, he's hardly likely to is he? But it doesn't alter the fact that for the entire game batsman on both sides had been padding the ball away ball after ball and all of a sudden in the space of a couple of overs he gives two out which are three feet wide of the off-stump and the batsman having taken a huge stride - which in the case of Curtley huge means huge.

 

[chipmonk]

Although Smith comes close, nobody has been as thoroughly dislikable as Arjuna Ranatunga yet

Please get over yourself ..... Ranatunga still is well respected and known as a "straight shooter"

Perhaps you are just speaking for yourself and others that are likeminded.

 

[chipmonk]

Ranatunga endorses Hair's removal

Cricinfo staff

November 5, 2006


Arjuna Ranatunga, the former Sri Lankan captain, has welcomed the ICC's decision to ban Darrell Hair from umpiring in international matches. The decision came after Pakistan lodged a complaint against him after he accused them of ball-tampering in the Oval Test, which led to the game being forfeited.

"This should have happened long ago, but I am happy with the way the ICC handled the Pakistani complaint," Ranatunga told AFP. Ranatunga and Hair have had a fractious relationship since Hair repeatedly no-balled Muttiah Muralitharan for throwing during the Melbourne Test on Sri Lanka's tour of Australia in 1995-96.

Hair later claimed in his autobiography that Muralitharan's action was "diabolical", and said he would call Murali again if his action did not improved. His remarks irked the Sri Lankans and prompted the Sri Lankan board to ask the ICC to suspend him for bringing the game into disrepute. Following the incident, Hair did not umpire in any Test involving Sri Lanka till 2003.

Meanwhile, Faruq Ahmed, the Bangladesh chief selector, backed the ICC's decision too, saying that Hair had committed a gross misconduct by penalising Pakistan five runs at The Oval without sufficient evidence. Habibul Bashar, the Bangladesh captain, felt that Hair could have handled the situation in a more diplomatic manner.

"I think what the ICC has done is the right thing," Bashar told AFP. "Hair should have spoken to Inzamam and explained things to him before bringing charges of cheating against Pakistan. He does not understand what sort of stress a captain faces during a Test match."

© Cricinfo

 

[social]

In the same week that they get rid of Hair, they reinstate a match fixer

How appropriate

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2006/nov/04rehman.htm

 

[social]

Please get over yourself ..... Ranatunga still is well respected and known as a "straight shooter"

Perhaps you are just speaking for yourself and others that are likeminded.

2 things that Ranatunga definitely isn't, well respected and a straight shooter

 

[silentstriker]

In the same week that they get rid of Hair, they reinstate a match fixer

How appropriate

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2006/nov/04rehman.htm

I didn't know Mark Waugh was banned?

 

[R_D]

In the same week that they get rid of Hair, they reinstate a match fixer

How appropriate

http://www.rediff.com/cricket/2006/nov/04rehman.htm

Yeah thats a strange one to me as well. After the way Mal Speed was fuming about the fact that BCCI was going to invite Azhar to some cricket function and were considering honorign or somthing along the line. Now this guy's cleared.. pretty strange.
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[social]

Yeah thats a strange one to me as well. After the way Mal Speed was fuming about the fact that BCCI was going to invite Azhar to some cricket function and were considering honorign or somthing along the line. Now this guy's cleared.. pretty strange.
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To be fair, I can understand why they might look at his case again but it really makes you wonder how anyone can take the ICC seriously when it comes to disciplinary action.

 

[Dasa]

Hair has been the victim of the power of the sub-continent, simple as that.

...and what's so wrong with the subcontinent having power?

 

[social]

...and what's so wrong with the subcontinent having power?

Nothing so long as they dont continue to misuse it

 

[Dasa]

Nothing so long as they dont continue to misuse it

Have they really misused it anyway? Although you may disagree with the decision to sack Hair, I don't think you can doubt it'll be better for cricket overall - for one thing, it removes an area of contention for the Asian sides and now they can't complain about supposedly dodgy decisions on the grounds of bias given that several sides have complained about Hair and only Hair.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Harper?

 

[social]

Have they really misused it anyway? Although you may disagree with the decision to sack Hair, I don't think you can doubt it'll be better for cricket overall - for one thing, it removes an area of contention for the Asian sides and now they can't complain about supposedly dodgy decisions on the grounds of bias given that several sides have complained about Hair and only Hair.

Unfortunately, we've already seen the ramifications of the ICC's treatment of Hair

During the Champions Trophy, Pakistan received their umpteenth warning for ball tampering. Naturally, no further action was taken as no umpire in their right mind would go out on a limb to do what's right because they can't be confident that the ICC will back them when the inevitable whinging starts.

 

[chipmonk]

2 things that Ranatunga definitely isn't, well respected and a straight shooter

You are absolutely entitled to your point of view ..... as long you understand its only that.

 

[howardj]

Hair deserved to be left stranded.

The bald audacity of the man has, in the end, claimed his own scalp.

There - I've said my piece.