The Australian cricket umpire Darrel Hair, resident in the United Kingdom is a person who seems to love controversy. He began by no-balling Sri Lankas ace spinner Muttiah Muralitharan seven times for throwing in the Melbourne Test in 1995. Umpire Darrel Hair described the spinner’s action as diabolical, prompting the Sri Lankans to complain to the ICC that he had brought the game into disrepute. The Spinner Murali was later cleared by the ICC using sophisticated technology. Umpire Darrel Hair also said in his autobiography that he would not hesitate to no-ball Murali at any future matches. ICC said it was unprecedented that a serving umpire would make public comments on current players.
As if this was not enough, this year, in the fourth Test England verses Pakistan, Hair accused the Pakistanis to have tampered with the ball and penalised them by awarding five runs to England. Pakistanis did not agree and refused to take the field after Tea resulting in the forfeiture of the Match. This is another first in the long history of Test Cricket.
While the issue was raging Umpire Darrel Hair sent an e mail on Tuesday 22nd August 2006, to Doug Cowie under the...
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