Mr Hair is main who has already proved as anti asian mind of frame . This incident is not a new for cricket word, one this is not seen by cricket body that his only targets are black . He can't see the bowling action of Bret lee he can see shoib,he can't see Giles he can see Murli(born with the defect in arm).
Still somebody say the The Hair is right,people see all things and people give the judgment at right time.
In the present situation where dozens of camaras always remains on Ball, it is difficult to digest that ball was tempered by pakistani player/s and it was not noticed by any camara.
There may be thousand reasons for ball loosing its shape but without any positive evidence of tempering the ball no team can be penalised.
Umpires should not have taken penal action without prooving guilty.
The recent events set of events are very unfortunate and require a closer scrutiny. The judgements including that by several fellow Indians have been racially biased. I think everyone needs to step back and see if the steps taken by Hair were in accordance with the rules and the spirit of the game. I think the answer is simply NO. I dont think the Pakistanis were warned or there was much deliberation before either the charge was made and more so a penalty was imposed. It must be remembered that ICC through some wisdom has other officials like third umpire or match refree present for each game and when a radical decision like this is taken for the first time, no one seems to have been consulted.
The other point is Hair has been involved in other controversies involving the subcontinent and might not have the reputation of being the most neutral umpire.
Finally, the correspondance between Speed and Hair, which has taken an amazing 4 days to come to public light. The question now involves a broader audience of all cricket boards. I think it requires an investigation by a independent committee. I think everyone needs to understand "Being White does not mean being Right"
hi, the entire controversy involving pakistan team and umpire hair is unfortunate.i do not believe that pakistan had tampered with the ball as none of the camera's caught any of the team members tampering it.i think hair should have informed inzy as to why he changed the ball.what was more shocking is when pak team came out finally umpire hair was in no mood to relent.if ICC has set up a commitee to make a judgement on inzy it should setup a commitee to check actions of darrel hair.if players can bring game into disrepute even umpires can be responsible.
DARELL HAIR made a mistake. his duty is to inform pak caption that they change the ball & give england as a penalty of 5 runs but he can't infrom to inzi.after the session of tea pak team not come to the field & when they come umpire not want to come.it is really a disgusting for cricket.hope all became normal after few days.
This ball tampering thing is something which can be solved easily. First,anlaysis should be carried out to see how the ball, in normal course of play,behaves during 80 over period. This should be done for all fives a test go on and for different type of pitchs. A standard behavior should be established. Then the umpires should be trained to become familiar with nature of wear and tear that takes place. If possible, at beginning of each test,Umpires should refreshed about the nature of the ground and the amount of wear and tear. During the course of the test match, the umpires must check the ball from time to time, and from prior knowlegde should be able to tell if unfair means have been used. If he suspects unfair play,he should change the ball without giving any reason. The players should have faith in umpires judgement.
Hair - is a racist pig and this is nothing new. He should be in prison and not on the cricket field. The he demands half a milllion bucks to retire - are you kidding me.
The reseaon for Pakistans\' involved in most of the ball tampering cases is because fast bowlers there can generate sizzling pace and appreciable reverse swing is possible only if the ball is bowled at high speed. Because of the advantage of bowling fast, they musted have using unethical means of roughing one surface to extract pronounce swing.If they have used any unfair practice this time arround cannot be acertained right. But as they themselves agreed, ball had become rough prematurly. It should be understood that, for getting the benifit of reverse swing one should be rough and other side should be nice. If, as pakistan players claim, the ball had become rough due to ball hitting the concrete when peterson was playing, then it should be uniformly rough. Probability of only one side becoming rough is very very small. Hence it should be easy for the ICC people to tell if Pakistanis\' have transgressed or not. One more thing is that, eventhough it is painful when you are wrongly accused, it would not be ideal thing to talk about country\'s honour or attach Asian bias, Islamic bias, racial bias to what goes on in a playing field. If this goes on,earth will become a horrible place.
ICC has to blame first for not banning Pakistan for atleast one year.
With regard to the comments made by one Australian today that SA was also involved in ball tampering in the past.
Now it is clearly learnt that India was the most sufferer. Whom we have to blame for. In the fourth test against India, Pakistan had tampered the ball. It is evident that in the third innings there is no swing for Indian Bowlers and finally in the fourth innings when india batting, the ball swung like anything.
ICC, if it is for governing all countreis, suspend Pakistan for doing mis-chief things for one (or) two years and award the fourth test to India as it is awarded to England recently. Tampering the ball is an abnoxious one. Cricket is a play, but not a 420 game. Please know the pakistanians and others who done this kind of acts.
