Hair Sues

 Interesting too that Billy Doctrove is one of his witnesses !

 If he wins it'll cost the ICC plenty.

It'll get dirty and cricket will be the loser. Expect the ICC's lawyers to dredge up old confrontations between Hair and subcontinental players.

I hope Hair takes them to the cleaners and that buffoon Malcolm Speed cops the flak he deserves for selling Hair down the river by releasing that letter (the one the ICC had encouraged him to submit in the first instance).

I wonder how it will affect wal bada's action against him

I reckon he still sniffs around.

OK, lets be clear on something here.  BBC has been reporting complains against Hair' controversial decisions since 1990.  His eye sight and calls for lbw was first mentioned during Sussex countys' final game, way back.  His elite status on judging the UK counties was questioned a few times subsequently by Durham owner.  A couple of other county owners do not want him umpiring in county games, period.  So, I think Speed ought to put him out for good even it means thru a mean shark of a lawyer.  Not for whether he was right/wrong at Oval.  But simply for attracting so much attention and jostling umpiring decisions all over.

Edited by -JP- - 01 October 2007 at 6:30pm

Behind the racism smoke-screen is actually a case of personal judge held by the sub-continent countries after his unfavorable actions in the past.

  I'm intrigued with what i've read today.  It's the first I've heard of part of a recording of a taped meeting going missing.  Naturally , the missing information just happens to be the meatiest part of the conversation.

   I'll bet some people aren't sleeping too well at this time.

I can also name at least 5 other elite upms who were never called to the carpet by any inquisition.  R. Maddugale, M. Niaz, D. Harper, Simon Taufel, A. Darr and S. Randall.   Out of these, D. Harper and Simon Taufel are the most most requested umps by the Asian cricket boards for their sub continent games according to Malcolm Speed.  Uh.. go figure?????

Edited by adamhnadir - 02 October 2007 at 3:29pm

Quite right Roscoe !   Reading the article in today's cricinfo Hair's testimony confirms that the ICC were happy in his officiating. 
    That the ICC's defense lawyer brought up Hair's comments on Muralitharan's action strikes me as the actions of a worried body who have no bullets with which to attack.
    I enjoyed his comment on Malcolm Speed too where Speed said ,"We have something in common.....the ICC wants to sack us both."   Speed was sat there in the hearing and must've cringed inwardly.

   Most damning is the ICC's claim that those sub-committee meetings (that Hair was not asked to attend) have no minutes available - that's unacceptable for what amounted to a grave crisis within the game of cricket.

   I wouldn't trust those people as far as I can spit and I sincerely hope that the verdict goes for a man who's been treated so shabbily.
   

 I hadn't seen that Clobs !  It'll be interesting to see how long it is before Koertzen stands in Pakistan.

  That might cloud the issue , his charge is racism and I'd be surprised if the question of revenue was raised by Hair's team.

Hair is poor is man-management, especially with Asian teams. ICC should have sacked him in a more professional leak-proof method. as a result ICC is facing a lawsuit. It's immaterial whether Hair wins or loses the case, but he'll earn a lot of money if he decides to write up a book describing all these hapennings. Lucky fellow!

A court is not the right place for Hair, he must visit a mental hospital for his problems. The way this corrupt guy wants to make fun is incredible!!!