Here is a very interesting article in The Guardian.
**Frank Keating **
Tuesday November 29, 2005
Think of me this morning, in front of the cricket and happily flunking that barmy Tebbit test. I am rooting for Pakistan to settle the series with a joyous victory at Lahore. If so, in boxing’s simplistic terms anyway, all Pakistan will hail themselves as world champions - “England beat top-dog Australians, ergo if we beat England we claim the title”. Cue a national holiday and celebrations with a raucous passion.
Pakistan deserves nothing less. It will cheer a country beset by international turmoils, not least a savagely ghastly earthquake and its ongoing dolours. A famous cricket triumph will at least provide a shaft of spiritual relief, rapture and national pride. If the rest of the world are, by all accounts, hedging and bilking on previously pledged disaster aid, then the least Michael Vaughan’s England team can do is donate a couple more batting collapses this week. They are practised enough at them.
Another reason I shall be on first-over parade with Sky’s commentators is that it seems to me that in the two Tests so far Pakistan have been generally ill served by the rub of the green, particularly when that rub has been intemperately picked at by the umpire Darrell Hair, that spot-on impersonator of Sergeant Ernie Bilko’s vengefully exasperated commanding officer at Fort Baxter, Colonel Hall. Not that Col Hall was such a nit-picking one-eyed showboater as the Aussie one-man judge and jury. He has previous, has Col Hair, when it comes to the subcontinent. Allowing the run out of Inzamam-ul-Haq at Faisalabad was a dereliction of duty by Hair - as it was, to my mind, for Vaughan not to withdraw England’s appeal on the spot. Shame, too, on coach Duncan Fletcher for so demeaningly applauding the act itself all of three days later. Hair is standing again at Lahore. C’mon you Ps!