Adil Najam
The news is too fresh, murky on the details, and still developing, but as Adnan Ahmed has just pointed out on the comments section of another post, Pakistan walked out of — and therefore possibly forfeited — the 4th Cricket Test against England at the Oval, in a dramatic turn of events. Then, it was announced that Pakistan will take the field… but just as the crowd begins to cheer, the umpires decide they will not come out if the Pakistan team does. Meanwhile the light keeps deteriorating. No matter how this ends, this will be a drama to remember.
More and developing details are available here. Best place to stay informed on this is CrickInfo.Com, from where the photograph above is are linked. (Updated after original posting).
Do not blindly defend a person becuase you feel you have to..!!!
Face the music..face the reality…Darrel HAIR is no more than a mere mortal…let him be what he is…
he has fallen for money and his urge to be in news has always been with him……and to achieve this glory he does different things on different times….
1) Ignoring countless LBW appeals raised by pakistani and other asians…
2) Murali getting called a chucker
3) Accusing Murali again in a book written just for fame
4) Calling Shoaib Akhtar aa chucker in 2000.
5) Calling Shabbir a chucker…
6) Stopping Kaneria from bowling in the whole inings without giving a proper warning…..against WI
7) Warning Salman Butt for running on pitch although he wasn’t…(ENG V PAK )
8) Asking for third umpire even though INZI was just taking evasive action to save himslef from getting hit by a mindless throw from HARMISON last year..
9) Countless edges and snicks from bat coming from rival batsmen on balls delivered by PAKISTANI Bowlers during the last 10 years..even if the snick is as loud as a drum beat….
10) now calling a 56 over old ball as tempered even though the ball was smashed hard,fell on concrete and hit hoarding boards…
11) there are at least a dozen more stories of his inept and biased umpiring but………. I think you as well as many others will find the truth difficult to digest…
Lastly congratulations…A MONEY MINDED MAN HAS GIVEN THE TRUE MOTIVE BEHIND THIS CONCOCTED STORYLINE….HAIR JUST WANTED MONEY AND FAME…..
BYE BYE…SWEAT DREAMS….
Dickey Bird calls the current controversy bigger than BodyLine…. So is Hairline the controversy of our times :)
the press conference and its contents are so anti-climatic, came home from work and the press conference was on and my heart was sinking in anticipation of bad news against pakistan but Hair’s email is bizzare. his boss, ex-south african cricker Dave Richardson that this is “typical Darrel” is mind boggling. is dave saying that Darell Hair’s mental unstability is a personality attribute well known and accepted within the ICC. So Hair is typical no-non-sense everything-by-the-book typical Darell…whereas does this leave Inzi. I read that Inzi slept peacefully after the incident. I salute him really… contrast this with Bob Wolmer who contemplated resignation…way to go Bob…when the chips are down, one can really see what mettle you are made off… inzi and other guys come from humble back-grounds and they have shown us their inner strength… inzi’s actual action that we are overlooking is the fact that he did not take his team out of the ground when the ball was changed… that was the captain’s decision… once he returned to the dressing room at tea-time, the group dynamics & herd mentality hijacked inzi’s sound judgement
$500,000
hey,you still gotta put food on the table :D
The cat is out of the bag folks. So much for principals. As of now Hair’s asking price is $500,000 which after reading the chain of emails posted on cricinfo is negotiable and can be revised. This is so far off the standards set by Dickie Bird and even Shepherd.
And things keep getting more bizzare… following up on Naveed’s email:
Read full story at CricInfo here:
Writing to you all after ICC press conference & confused as to how Hair’s offer of resignation in exchange of lost earning of USD 0.5M is going to impact the matter
I got a little worried when I heard today’s game was cancelled. Turns out its bc of rain. I hope the remaining games go well and this does not blow up further. I think Pakistan took a courageous stand and hope that it will improve the game and with better officials we will get away from these constant controversies that have been happening with so many countriesl.