So much for morals.
Re: BREAKING NEWS :DARREL HAIR OFFERED TO ICC TO RESIGN FOR $500,000
Malcolm speed revealed in his press conference. He is trying to justify Hair's offer.
Re: BREAKING NEWS :DARREL HAIR OFFERED TO ICC TO RESIGN FOR $500,000
Hair offered to quit for $500,000
Darrell Hair has offered to resign as an elite umpire in return for a payment of $500,000, Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, told a press conference in a hotel near Lord’s.
Speed told reporters that he had received a copy of the letter from Hair on Tuesday which had been sent to Doug Cowie, the ICC’s umpire manager.
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Re: BREAKING NEWS :DARREL HAIR OFFERED TO ICC TO RESIGN FOR $500,000
omigosh
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ICC revealed the contents of the offer after consulting their lawyers.
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ICC has met PCB lawyers.
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ICC thinks Hair had no malicious or dishonest intent. So what did he have in mind????
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is that a joke?
wow... i guess we can rest our cases
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ICC will hold a meeting on 2 Sept to decide future course. ICC is seeking legal advice.
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rest our cases indeed!,.....he knows he is gonna be brought down by the PCB so instead he wants 2 step down in 'dignity'
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Bhoosaa
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Anyone in UK tune into BBC or sky to watch the press conference.
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ICC has been assured that the tour will continue.
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Dignity...........what dignity you make a mess of a cricket match accuse a team of cheating and then try to make money out of it which he will make by publishing a book as well...... Certainly not dignified
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Wish i was home for this
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please provide updates once you get it ehsan bhai
Re: BREAKING NEWS :DARREL HAIR OFFERED ICC TO RESIGN FOR $500,000
Hair offered to quit for $500,000
Cricinfo staff
August 25, 2006
Darrell Hair has offered to resign as an elite umpire in return for a payment of $500,000, Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, told a press conference in a hotel near Lord's. Speed told reporters that he had received a copy of the letter from Hair on Tuesday which had been sent to Doug Cowie, the ICC's umpire manager. In it he asked for "a one-off payment to compensate for the loss of future earnings and retainer payments over the next four years, which I believe would have been the best years I have to offer ICC and world umpiring."
"This issue has been marked by a series of unfortunate and entirely avoidable overreactions," Speed said. "I have been concerned that I might be overreaction to the contents of these letters. ...] Darrell Hair was under great stress when he wrote these letters.
"I am confident, as is David Richardson (the ICC's general manager cricket), who has been intimately involved in these matters that Darrell had no dishonest, underhand or malicious intent. He was seeking to find a solution that was in the interests of the game.
*"When I received the letters I was extremely surprised by the content, as was David. I was concerned as to how I should deal with it and in part whether ...] I was required to disclose the contents ...]" *
"I then consulted three lawyers. The laws were Mr David Pannick QC, who is regarded by many as the leading commercial litigation specialist in the country. He has been retained by the ICC to assist the adjudicator in these proceedings. I consulted Brian Ward, I consulted Mr David Stewart (from the ICC's London lawyers)... The lawyers were consulted independently of each other and didn't know I had consulted other lawyers.
"This issue has created unprecedent media and public issue... there is a huge amount of misinformation, speculation and conjecture in different parts of the world. There have been accusations of racism. It involves two separate issues. Did the Pakistan team change the ball in an illegal manner? Secondly, when Pakistan refused to take the field, did that bring the game into disrepute?. They are cricket issues. The ICC Code of Conduct provides a mechanism to dispense justice on cricket issues and that's the process we are trying to achieve here."
In his letter, which was released to the media, Hair said: *" I am prepared to retire/stand down/reqlinquish my position on the elite panel to take effect from August 31 2006. This payment is to be the sum of $500,000 details of which must be kept confidential by both parties. This sum to be paid directly into my account by August 31, 2006. ICC may announce the retirement in anyway they wish but I would prefer a simple "lifestyle choice" as this was the very reason I moved from Australia to settle in the UK three years ago." *
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ehsan bhai: can you record and upload the video here 
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No malicious intent my ass............... Atleast now we know what he was up to
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The story just keeps getting better and better!
It actually isn't as big a deal as it sounds. He has the right to ask for lost wages, etc. as any other person in those circumstances would've done.