Umpire a Mini-Hitler

There was fury in England and Pakistan Monday over a ball-tampering row that gifted England an infamous Test match win -- with former Test star Imran Khan calling the umpire at the center of the dispute a "mini-Hitler."

Meanwhile the Chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), Shaharyar Khan, said on Monday the board would not accept Australian umpire Darrell Hair for any matches.

"We are going to make it clear to the International Cricket Council that we are not going to play under the supervision of Hair in any future matches," Khan told Reuters.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is expected to pass further judgment on the unprecedented final Test controversy Monday.

England were handed the match at The Oval, London, and a 3-0 series victory, late Sunday after Pakistan failed to take the field in the evening session, having been accused of ball-tampering by the match umpires earlier in the day.

Thousands of cricket fans were furious that they were not told for some hours what was happening as far as the match went.

Those with tickets for the final day's play on Monday were also angry.

Although the ICC offices in Dubai were officially closed Monday due to the Ascension of the Prophet, a public holiday, match referee Mike Procter is composing a report on the incident which sparked the first forfeit in 1,814 Tests, the UK's Press Association said.

Pundits in Pakistan and ex-Pakistani internationals slammed Australian umpire Hair over the chaos.

Pakistan cricket great Imran Khan went so far Monday as to describe Hair as a "mini-Hitler," The Associated Press said.

"Hair-raising row turns Oval Test on its head," screamed the front page headline in Monday's usually conservative daily Dawn newspaper.

"Hold your nerves -- Hair comes trouble," read the headline splashed across the front page of the popular daily The News.

In England former test stars Geoff Boycott and Ian Botham blamed the International Cricket Council for the farcical scenes at The Oval.

Writing in the Daily Telegraph, Boycott said: "The ICC must be blind or stupid not to have realized that there is history between Darrell Hair, the umpire who accused them of changing the nature of the ball, and Pakistan."

"Pakistan regard Hair as an officious umpire and they don't like his style of man-management. It should have been obvious to the ICC that appointing him to this series created a situation like a volcano waiting to erupt."

Botham also criticized the ICC for failing to keep the 23,000-strong crowd informed about what was happening during the confusing scenes after tea.

"They are the mandarins who fiddled while the game slid towards anarchy at The Oval yesterday," Botham wrote in the Daily Mirror.

The drama began Sunday when umpires Hair and West Indian Billy Doctrove awarded England five penalty runs because, they said, Pakistan had tampered with the ball.

The Pakistan team stayed in the pavilion after the tea interval, in protest, when the umpires and England batsmen returned to the pitch.

After eight hours of meetings and negotiations, the International Cricket Council upheld the umpires' original decision that Pakistan's failure to return to the field was equivalent to a forfeit.

"It was indeed a farce most sordid" and "was nothing short of shameful," Imran Khan wrote in a front page article in daily The Nation.

Khan, who led Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup, accused Hair of having a lead role in the outcome.

"Hair is one of those characters when he wears the white umpires coat, he metamorphoses into a mini Hitler," Khan wrote of the 53-year-old umpire.

Hair, renowned for having a strict interpretation of the rules, previously courted controversy by calling Sri Lankan bowler Muttiah Muralitharan for chucking -- or using an illegal bowling action -- seven times in a test match at Melbourne in 1995.

The incident is the latest in a series of incidents between the forthright Australian official and the Pakistan team, but no previous rows have been as serious.

The impasse continued into Sunday evening, with officials locked in discussions to save the fifth day's play, but to no avail.

"It is concluded with regret that there will be no play on the fifth day of the fourth Test on Monday," said a joint-statement by the English and Wales Cricket Board, the International Cricket Council and the Pakistan Cricket Board.

"The match has been awarded to England."

There should be a strong and complete investigation on the fact of ball tempering by a group of neutral investigators. If there is not such tempering Hair should be ban for life time for humiliating the national pride of Pakistan and if the tempering is really happen them Pakistan should get a strong punishment for cheating the cricket lovers of the world and as well as Pakistan. ICC should be more strict in ball tempering so that these things should not happen again and so that no one can convicts one so easily.

Whatever the fact, I am not in supporting Pakistan for not playing the match. It is a humiliation of the cricket as well as the cricket player. It would have been better if they play the match and protest that incident on the board level (including Pakistan board). They should be punished for that incident. Otherwise other countries will start to abandon match for their other issues.

But I am sure that ICC will not be strong enough to handle this situation. They only make Pakistan free or will gave negligible and will only resist hair to be umpire for Pakistan in future.

ei beta hair hitler er thaikao joghonno

sub-continent manei ei betar shotru she

so hair-keo subcontinent er shotru hishabe ghoshona kora dorkar.

inzi thik kamtai korse.

well, first of all, there are two umpires on the field, one third umpire and one match ref. in a cricket match. So u see hair was not the only umpire. And if the ball seems tempared , the blame would naturally go to the fielding side. He did it by the laws of cricket.


Remember, that for Muttiah Muralitharan a rule of cricket had to change ( the arm bent angle while making a delivery) ... so he was logically right in the first place

Ball temparing kora pakistanider purana ovvas. a er notun ki. pakistan team ke suspend kora uchit tader behavior er jonno.
regarding Darel Haer, world cricket needs some more strong umpire like him

we always will have arguments on who is right or wrong.. but wht i think is this.. cricket is a game and peoples are related to it.. they only know whats going on in the field.. when there is a situation on the field.. and peoples doesnt know what happend.. more problems are arised..

cricket has been my favourite game for a long time now.. but the only thing i never liked is the power of an Umpire.. heck u cant even question about his decessions, on or off the field... thts bullshit.. all ICC can give is, Umpires are Human, they can make mistakes.. Hey.. players are human too.. and they are the ones who are playing.. they get frustrated.. when u complain about an Umpire thru the management.. some ICC panel looks into the matter and give their decession.. now Umpires are ICC Officials... i have never seen an Umpire was banned/penalized for being a cocky sob. the whole thing is very secrative to me.. noone knows wht goes on there..

all i want from this situation is some clear actions.. these days they use 8-12 cameras.. it is very possible to check if pakistan really tampered the ball, which i believe they did... or not.. if they did not do that, the umpires should be banned from game for their life.. even if pakistan didnt do anything Inzi should be banned for atleast 2 games for not coming on to the field. even pakistan did the tampering.. Hair should receive some ban for denying to continue with the game.. but whatever the findings are, I, as a spectator.. wanna know.. i wanna read the details.. i wanna see if any pictures available.. i want to see an ICC who has to explain their actions to everyone..

heh, even the mighty FIFA, published their findings about Zidane and Materazzi.


and for ur invo severus.. for Muttiah Muralitharan the rule was not changed.. ICC clearly stated that, they changed the rule to have less confusion among the Umpires.. while Muttiah Muralitharan was playing and this is long before the rule was changed.. he was cleared by an institute at Perth, and ICC approved it.. even after that Darrell Hair called No balls to Muttiah Muralitharan after that he never came to Australia to play until 2005 to play for the rest of the world team, keep your facts right..

read the facts right .. in this story pakistan did not come to the field but they did not also express anything that they do not want to continue the match, they came later on, but Darrell Hair refused to umpire the match. and i think it does not satisfy the LAW 21.3 , the team never said, they dont wanna play. they were upset and they took some time. I am not trying to make Pakistan look good or anything.. i dont even like the Country.. they should not have done that, they should have used proper channel to express their anger.. should have lodged an complain...

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The controversy began at 2.30pm local (1330GMT) when veteran Australian official Hair, standing with West Indian umpire Billy Doctrove, signalled to the scorers that five penalty runs were to be added to England's total, taking it up to 235.

Then, after an early tea had been taken because of bad light, the umpires walked back out onto the field at 4.40pm local time (1540GMT) only for no Pakistan fieldsmen to follow behind them before walking back in. Some 15 minutes later the umpires returned followed by England batsmen Paul Collingwood and Ian Bell only for the Pakistan team to remain in their dressing room.

The batsmen and umpires walked back in, with Pakistan - already a losing 2-0 down in the series - in danger of forfeiting the match. Both umpires removed the bails, returned to the pavilion and the covers came on.

Pakistan then appeared on the field, to boos from the crowd, at 5.25pm (1625GMT) but there were neither stumps in the pitch nor umpires. After several minutes without either Hair or Doctrove, or the England batsmen, Pakistan walked back off. The fresh delay was caused by Hair's refusal to continue.

Cricket's Law 21.3 states clearly states "that, in the opinion of the umpires, a team refuses to play, the umpires shall award the match to the other side." This was the first time such a five-run penalty for ball-tampering had been imposed in Test cricket, an International Cricket Council [ICC] spokesman said.

Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer told AFP: "The team is upset that they have been accused of tampering with the ball and therefore 'cheating'. "It is a no-win situation as now Darrell Hair has refused to umpire."

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Well everyone is saying a lot of things. But I found one thing extremely fishy, why the umpires refused to enter the field when Pakistan team walked inside the field and wanted to play? The pakistan team could have been fined or punished for not entering the field in due time after lunch break, but why the heck will the umpires refused to oversee/continue the match once Pakistan decided to keep playing?!?!?!?!

Umpired should not be biased but Hair has a previous history of being extremely hard on subcontinent players. If it was some other umpire than the incident would not have gotten out of hand. yes what pakistan did was wrong and would have been Booed by all, but what the umpire did was beyond any logic and unforgivable. They should have continued the game once pakistan walked in to the field and later fine/punish them.

[quote=ApriL;38451]Well everyone is saying a lot of things. But I found one thing extremely fishy, why the empires refused to enter the field when Pakistan team walked inside the field and wanted to play?
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I don’t think what the empires done anything wrong when Pakistan did not come 2 play after the tea. Both the empires come in the field on the right time and as well as the opponent players. They waited enough for Pakistan and when they didn’t come they pick up the bell. "Picking up the bell" means they announced the end of days play and after the "Picking the bell" they can not start the days play.

The empires and the oponent players can not wait for Pakistan for indefinitely. It is a humiliation done by the Pakistan players to the empires as well as all they cricket lovers. Empires are very admirable in the cricket field just like a head master in a school. Are the empires jokers that they will start and end a play when Pakistan player will want? They poisoned whole the environment of the cricket field. They show a very wrong information to all the other team that if you are unhappy with any decision of empires abandon the match and still they are trying to blackmail ICC for not giving them punishment.

I will be very offended they the Pakistan players are not given a heavy punishment for such things.

[quote=Bubla;38457][quote=ApriL;38451]Whatever the fact, I am not in supporting Pakistan for not playing the match. It is a humiliation of the cricket as well as the cricket player. It would have been better if they play the match and protest that incident on the board level (including Pakistan board). They should be punished for that incident. Otherwise other countries will start to abandon match for their other issues.


The empires and the oponent players can not wait for Pakistan for indefinitely. It is a humiliation done by the Pakistan players to the empires as well as all they cricket lovers. Empires are very admirable in the cricket field just like a head master in a school. Are the empires jokers that they will start and end a play when Pakistan player will want? They poisoned whole the environment of the cricket field. They show a very wrong information to all the other team that if you are unhappy with any decision of empires abandon the match and still they are trying to blackmail ICC for not giving them punishment.

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But mia bhai Umpire jey jonno Balim korsey sheita ki dhora porsey? and Inzi to bolsei eita Desh er jonno korsey not for the cricket team boss cause Ei Umpire i mean EI Beta CHUL er baccha (Hair naam tai chul dilam)... onek shomossa korsey with pakistan and pakistan kintu or under ey Game shurui kortey chay nai.. so buijja nen Umpire shld be kono side er hober kotha na but ei halay all time Pakistan er Bipokkho nia thakey so er ki maney? ball tempering korsey ok bujhlam but Prove kothay? prove na dekhai jodi 1ta blaim koira boshlo tailey ki korbey.... Er agey o Ball Tempering hoisey Pakistan er biruddhey and Prove dekhaisey Pakistan team management o kono kotha boley nai but ei betar kache Prove chaisey tokhon o dei nai so that Inzi khela off korsey taar agey kintu kisu korey nai So bubla bhai chinta koren ki hoisey bepar ta...