Re: Hair ‘hell’ over forfeited Test
Darrell Hair tribunal, 2nd day
Hair claims ICC allowed Pakistan media attacks
Darrell Hair told the Central London Employment Tribunal that he was barred from standing in top-level matches because of decisions “motivated along racial lines”.
Giving evidence of the second day of his claim of racial discrimination against the ICC, Hair, who argues that his colleague at The Oval in 2006, Billy Doctrove, was treated differently by the ICC because of the colour of his skin, said: **"If I had been from West Indies or Pakistan or India, I might have been treated differently, like Doctrove. **
“At the time we told Inzamam-ul-Haq, the Pakistan captain, that we believed the marks we found on the ball were deliberately put there. After the match I was continually pilloried in the media by Shaharyar Khan, the chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, and Inzamam, which was clearly in breach of ICC conduct … and yet it did nothing to prevent this.”
In the week after the Oval Test, Hair said that he was not given time to consult lawyers before his email exchange, in which he offered to stand down for payment of US$500,000, was made public. He added that Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive who was in the hearing, listening to the evidence, told him in the aftermath of the Test: “We have something in common … the ICC wants to sack both of us.”
This afternoon Hair will face cross-examination by Michael Beloff QC, the ICC’s barrister. With the hearing already behind schedule, it is likely that it will last beyond the estimates of two weeks.
SOURCE: http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/ci-icc/content/current/story/313366.html