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Darrell Hair and the Big Payoff.

  • 25-08-2006 4:53pm
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    Holy Smoke!
    International Cricket Committee chief executive Malcolm Speed has revealed that Australian umpire Darrell Hair offered to resign following the ball-tampering affair this week in exchange for "a payment of US dollars 500,000".

    Hair was the umpire who accused Pakistan captain Inzaman-ul-Haq of ball-tampering and bringing the game into disrepute in the fourth Test against England at The Oval last Sunday. Hair and fellow umpire Billy Doctrove first penalised Pakistan five runs for ball-tampering and then judged they had forfeited the match by failing to halt a sit-in protest when play was due to resume.

    "On Tuesday 22 August I was handed a letter written on that day by Darrell Hair to Doug Cowie (ICC Umpires and Referees Manager)," said Speed. "When I received the letter it is fair to say I was extremely surprised by the content and concerned as to how I should deal with it. In the letter Darrell Hair offered to leave his job as a top official in the ICC in exchange for a payment of USD 500,000."

    I would say thats not cricket....either way he has burned his bridges and farted in the face of the ICC.

    Mike.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,772 ✭✭✭toomevara


    The guy's a galloping disgrace. I've had my doubts about his integrity for years and this merely confirms them. Resign on a matter of principle by all means but in return for half a mil, worthy of the grubbiest backroom deal!!! And this guy is to be trusted umpiring test cricket where integrity and judgement are all?? Don't think so. I'm backing Inzy all the way on this one...He called a spade a spade when he walked off that pitch and I think in the end getting rid of this distasteful buffoon will be a great service to cricket.

    I hope the PCB sue the guy to high heaven.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 864 ✭✭✭Jilm


    The kiwis have been whinging about him for years, naturally I thought it was just kiwis being kiwis.

    Now, I'd gladly chip into a fund to keep this bigot from umpiring a cricket match ever again.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭county


    Jilm wrote:

    Now, I'd gladly chip into a fund to keep this bigot from umpiring a cricket match ever again.
    i think thats a bit strong tbh


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,913 ✭✭✭JacksonHeightsOwn


    i have to say ive always liked Haire, a real no nonsense kinda fella, but **** me he looks a right tool now with payoff thing, what the hell was he thinking, the ICC are hanging him out to dry

    as for the bigot bit, this is no lie, on australian tv last year when the aussies beat pakistan in the cricket ,they actually say this on aussie tv

    "the aussies beat the PAKIS today in the cricket" they actually say Paki on tv, the bloody news casters :eek:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    Why did Darrell Hair specify US$500,000. He's an Australian living in the UK. Would it not have been more 'appropriate' to seek payment in Sterling or Australian dollars. It's not as if the ICC had their HQ in the US either!

    Just wondering. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,800 ✭✭✭county



    as for the bigot bit, this is no lie, on australian tv last year when the aussies beat pakistan in the cricket ,they actually say this on aussie tv

    "the aussies beat the PAKIS today in the cricket" they actually say Paki on tv, the bloody news casters :eek:

    if you said that on british tv you would lose your job striaght away,ron atkinson and rodney marsh being examples


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,055 ✭✭✭✭Wishbone Ash


    county wrote:
    if you said that on british tv you would lose your job striaght away,ron atkinson and rodney marsh being examples

    But didn't Ron use the word 'nígger'. It could be argued that Paki is merely short for Pakistan. The Australians wouldn't be renowned for their sensitivities anyway.


  • Moderators, Sports Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 2,667 Mod ✭✭✭✭TrueDub


    From conversations with friends from Oz and from NZ, the word "Paki" doesn't have the racial connotations there that it has in Britain and by extension here. It's certainly not a word I'd use at all, but AFAIK their use of it is not meant as a racial insult.

    This whole sorry affair is getting messier and messier. It looks to me like the ICC is hanging Darrell Hair out to try by publishing the email. How he thought this would work and not get into the public domain is beyond me, I thought he was brighter than that.

    It's now gone way beyond a simple (!) ball-tampering row, with racial attitudes, greed and politics to the fore. How it will be resolved is anyone's guess, but I bet we never find out the full story, and that Darrell Hair never umpires a sub-continental side again.

    Finally, I think a change to the laws is required, to stop the immediate and provocative awarding of penalty runs, and the concomitant accusation of cheating built into that. If the umpires (has to be both of them, a fact that's been forgotten recently) agree the ball has been interfered with, it should be changed. At the end of the day's play, call the captains into the referee's room and sort it out.

    By the way, I think the "standard currency" of the ICC is US dollars, to keep things simple. Certainly easier than the Zim dollar... ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,726 ✭✭✭✭DMC


    Hair is saying that the ICC (or Doug Cowie, in this respect) that in order to get out of the situation, it was the ICC who wanted a way for Hair to sail off and for him to take the hit.

    Whats happened, I think, is this.... Hair and Cowie were discussing ways around. Cowie or Hair suggested that Hair's career is now shot, but they wanted an amicable settlement. Cowie asked for it in writing, so finance must have been discussed. So whatever Hair says now about previous discussions prior to the e-mail, the ICC can quickly say "nope, that was never said, your word against ours."

    The ICC are going to have issues with umpires now... serious ones. The ICC look weak, not strong. Strong means supporting their staff, their repesentatives. This is dangerous for the future of umpires roles in the game.


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