Darrell Hair and the $500,000

[animal magic]

Darrell Hair offered to resign as an umpire in exchange for a payment of $500,000, the International Cricket Council has revealed.
He made his offer in a letter to the ICC after last weekend's controversial end to the fourth Test at The Oval.

ICC chief executive Malcolm Speed told a news conference in London that Hair had been under great stress.

But he said he was satisfied Hair had not made the offer with any "dishonest, underhand or malicious intent".

Speed added: "He was seeking to find a solution that was in the interests of the game."

[kopdan]

genius

[red_in_oz]

Makes himself look very honest, doesn't he!

[animal magic]

Makes himself look very honest, doesn't he!

this is like a soap opera

[Shaggy]

It's another extraordinary development. I just don't know what to make of it all!!

[animal magic]

It's another extraordinary development. I just don't know what to make of it all!!

he has taken it back i reckon he will get sacked

[Shaggy]

he has taken it back i reckon he will get sacked

Well yeah but it's a bit late now. He's claiming he was under serious stress (fair enough, I'm sure he was) but there's no excuse for asking for half a million ******* quid in exchange for his resignation!!

It's over for Hair, surely.

[6sheep]

he has taken it back i reckon he will get sacked

Hair today, gone tomorrow

[Shaggy]

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Nice!

[animal magic]

Well yeah but it's a bit late now. He's claiming he was under serious stress (fair enough, I'm sure he was) but there's no excuse for asking for half a million ******* quid in exchange for his resignation!!

It's over for Hair, surely.

he says thats for 4 years work as a umpire

[Red_Polo]

Hair today, gone tomorrow

[G_Man]

He'll carry on, no doubt about it. I don't understand why he was targetted for the decision against Pakistan, it was a joint decision by both umpires and I think the Pakistan team used the fact that Hair has had allegations made against him in the past as the reason to target him. I have sympathy with Hair on this, he's been made to be the villain of the piece when in actual fact he did nothing wrong during that Test match. He played it by the book and got abuse for it. The other umpire didn't get any flack which is disturbing and one wonders whether there was any racial nature of the targeting of Hair.
Having said all that, he's just made himself out to be a complete tool by asking for this payment.

[tsb]

Here's the original transcripts.

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/image/257813.html

I don't think he's done much wrong during the test. He had an issue and raised it. Pakistan chucked their rattles out of the pram when they should have just got on with it - a lot of the legendary reverse swing bowlers admit to scuffing the ball up in the past (Imran Khan for example), so the precedent is there.

It's funny watching Hair squirm around now. There's certainly no love lost there on m part. The sooner him and Steve "Blindasabat" Bucknor retire the better.

[dww]

I think he was wrong to not continue the match to be honest. I know it was both umpires who reached the decision but if they had come out and carried on the game it would all have been forgotten and the public would have got a days extra play.

[tsb]

I think he was wrong to not continue the match to be honest. I know it was both umpires who reached the decision but if they had come out and carried on the game it would all have been forgotten and the public would have got a days extra play.

I understand that but as an umpire it's his paid duty to uphold the laws of the game, and not to twist them around for the sake of the crowd. If the laws of the game need updating, then so be it.