If you ever wondered at what Hair was going to achieve with his discrimination case against ICC, wonder no longer.
Hair could now return to umpiring non-Test playing nations next March.
Then, the ICC board will meet to discuss the results of his rehabilitation and decide whether he can return to elite umpiring, and if so, on what terms.
It is understood that no financial pay-off was made to Hair.
True, no financial pay-off was made, but he got what he wanted, or didn't he?
2 comments:
No doubt a deal was struck. But why would ICC do so if they felt Hair had weak grounds for his case? I'm not an expert in these matters so I can only ask questions.
More importantly, and the point on which most of us can authoritatively opinionate is whay bring back an umpire who compulsively errs in giving simple decisions? I'm not talking about the Oval test...he was generally the most error prone before the umpires in this summer's cricket showed us newer depths. I know he was awarded before Taufel, but ICC awardees appear to have a track record for some atrocious decisions to support their Best Umpire medal.
On that point alone he should have been dismissed forwith. Oval test and racism etc are not the reasons he should be held accountable for. They are more like escape routes as we now see.
Will you go as far calling umpires jokers?
I will.
The funniest as on date is Sunil Sastry.
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