ICC praise Hair before showing him the Finger
A few days back cricket governing body ICC met in Delhi and had voted to expel Darrell Hair from the ranks of the ICC elite umpiring panel, a decision which has been lauded by a number of nations across the world except for the English & the Australians who continue to deny that there was any racial bias in Darrell Hair’s umpiring.
An elaborate investigation was undertaken by Sydney’s Daily Telegraph showing a few confidential files which were prepared by ICC’s umpiring bosses to reveal that Hair was ranked equal-second on the ICC’s elite panel – with Simon Taufel believed to be No. 1. In pure decision-making, Hair was the top-ranked umpire on the panel, making 253 of 263 correct decisions last year – a success rate of 95.5 per cent compared with 94.8 per cent for all umpires.
It should be interesting to note that the ICC Umpiring body only evaluates the decisions that ‘were given’ and does not take into consideration those incidents that were turned down and over ruled. This itself is a major loop-hole that shows a major discrepancy in how ICC chooses to analyze its umpires, since during a cricket match decisions not given also weigh in heavily in the overall shape of things. But in the case of Darrell Hair, he generally has been understood as a person who would willingly turn down a close decision if hence denying a wicket for the teams coming from the sub-continent.
We hope this is the final chapter in the Darrell Hair saga to be awoken again when he embarks upon his book tour which should be surely be forth coming.
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CHEAT UMPIRE = DARRYL HAIR
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Darryl Hair is a Cheat Umpire and he deserved what he got. He got expelled from the Elite panel of Umpires for the right reasons. Malcolm Speed, who is another Kangaroo cheat, tried his best to save the career of “Darryl the Cheater”, but he failed.
According to the rumours circulating in Germany, PCB had categorically threatened that if “Darryl the Cheater” was not removed, Pakistan will breakaway from the ICC and will solidify the Asian block of Asian cricket council.
The threat worked very well against the Kangaroo cheaters.
Sahafi
Germany
[...] With great satisfaction I would like to report that the Darrell Hair saga continues. It seems that ICC desperately has the urge to employ Darrell Hair on its umpiring panel. It was announced today that Mr. Hair will officiate the triangular one-day series in involving Kenya, Scotland and Canada. You may recall that he had been expelled from the ICC Elite Umpiring Panel a few months previously as the governing body had lost confidence in his umpiring, that decision in effect prohibited him to officiate any match which might have involved the full members of the ICC body. The dilemma is, how can one set of rules be flexed to accommodate his employment in any capacity whatsoever. A choice has to be made to decide if he is at all capable of umpiring a cricket match and no ambiguity should lie there at all. It is for the record that he was not accused of cheating but there was enough suspcision in his umpiring style to keep him away from officiating anything under the ICC banner, be it the Big League or the Peewee League. [...]
[...] With great satisfaction I would like to report that the Darrell Hair saga continues. It seems that ICC desperately has the urge to employ Darrell Hair on its umpiring panel. It was announced today that Mr. Hair will officiate the triangular one-day series in involving Kenya, Scotland and Canada. You may recall that he had been expelled from the ICC Elite Umpiring Panel a few months previously as the governing body had lost confidence in his umpiring, that decision in effect prohibited him to officiate any match which might have involved the full members of the ICC body. [...]
adios hair.