A litany of controversies and incompetency:
Harrowing Hair and spin Doctrove](http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/content/current/story/257308.html)
Throughout their umpiring careers, Darrell Hair and Billy Doctrove have been involved in a number of controversies. Cricinfo looks back at the moments that have put the two umpires in the limelight
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August 2003
Steve Dunne, the New Zealand umpire who stood with Hair at Melbourne in 1995, spilled the beans about his silence during the Murali throwing controversy. In his book, Alone in the Middle: An Umpire’s Story, Dunne wrote: “There were many thoughts going through my mind. What do I do? Do I support Darrell Hair because he has called Muralitharan and do I call him as well? Or do I support what I believe, which was what we had discussed and decided at a conference in Coventry earlier this year?” That conference had decided in the case of a suspect action that the matter would be reported to the match referee who would have the action filmed and sent to the International Cricket Council.
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Barbados’s Carib Beer Cup win against Guyana in the opening round of the 2004 Carib Beer Cup was marred by the first five-run penalty for ball-tampering in West Indian first-class domestic cricket. Barbados thrashed Guyana by ten wickets in the opening round of the competition, but on the third afternoon of the match, the umpires, Doctrove and Vincent Bullen, reported to the match referee that the ball had changed condition. They immediately changed it and penalised Barbados five runs.
When Billy Doctrove went missing
West Indies v India, May 2006
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, in the midst of a savage attack, biffed a ball towards deep midwicket where Daren Ganga back-pedalled to take the ‘catch’. The on-field umpires, Rauf and Simon Taufel, were not sure whether Ganga had trampled on the boundary ropes in the process and went upstairs to Doctrove. Replays were inconclusive and for the next 15 minutes chaos reigned supreme in the middle. Lara talked with the umpires, argued with them, had a chat with Dhoni, telling him he should take his fielder’s word and leave the arena, which Dhoni, eventually, did. But many wondered why Doctrove didn’t just give the benefit of doubt to the batsman. A few days later the ICC tweaked the rules and decreed that benefit of the doubt, in such circumstances, will be given to the fielder.](“http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wivind/engine/match/239916.html")](“http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/225258.html”)](“http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/ci/engine/match/64840.html”)]("http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1993-94/RSA_IN_AUS/RSA_AUS_T3_28JAN-01FEB1994.html”)