ICC praise Hair before showing him the Finger

Darrell Hair

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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5 responses to “ICC praise Hair before showing him the Finger”

  1. shobz Avatar

    adios hair.

  2. Raza Avatar

    I bet his book will be titled:”Hair We Go Again!” .. 🙂

  3. Areeb Avatar

    NIce to know that he will be expelled !
    The way he has treated Pakistan, in the past is very bad.

  4. Sahafi Avatar
    Sahafi

    CHEAT UMPIRE = DARRYL HAIR
    _____________________________________

    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

  5. Asad Avatar

    Good to hear he has been dumped.