These are testing times for Pak cricket fans, emotions are running high and it seems we would have nothing less than Darryls Hair head on the platter. All very understandable, but what if this was Aleem Dar and not Daryl Hair and teams playing were someother for example Australia and India. How would we react? Would we behave in the same manner? Would we have taken refuge in basic rules of the game? Iam sure there would have been plenty of cricket lovers who wud have sided with Aleem Dar, point being ppl make mistakes and its the bigger person who acts honorably lets bygones be bygones.
If Darryl Hair was wrong, so was Pakistan camp when they refused to play when the umpires asked them to do so. Darryl Hair had us by our pubic hairs when Pakistan refused to walk out after tea, then our stupid beuracrats forced Inzi to walk out which was an admission of our mistake. Blunder after blunder.
Lets accept it folks, we too have sinned and sanity must prevail.
had it been Aleem Dar, we would have reacted differently. Not becasue he is Pakistan but because he doesn't have a twisted history of targetting people of colour.
I said it earlier as well, what happened yesterday was not an isloated incidence but took years in the making.
Darryl Hair is a jerkazoid, no argument there. But there are two parties to this particular unfortunate episode, had Pakistan acted according to the rules of the game then we wud not be discussing this problem in this manner. Umpires are also human beings, mistakes are made by all, Pakistan committed its fatal mistake by sitting in their dressing room for 45 minutes after the tea break. According to the rules of the game, they had forfietied, period. If the principle is the issue, then they sud have walked out immediately after they were accused and once they had taken a stand sud not have come out and acted innocent as if they always intended to play. Bad deal dude.
we had already an incident this year involving a pakistani umpire asad rauf and australian playes in a test match against south africa where asad rauf was insulted and treated like an illiterate rickshaw driver by the australians and no action was taken against the australian players.pakistani players have been banned by the umpires for much lesser offenses
Steve Bucknor (and other umpires) make mistakes too but why teams accept his mistakes and dont react like they do against Daryl Hair’s coz Bucknor (and Aleem and Simon) actually want game to continue while Hair does not care about the cricket, all he care about is RULES.
When Pakistan came back after their protest to play, Hair ko bhee game shuru ker daina chehyee tha but he didnt. His “ego” was in b/w.
It appears that Hair is beginning to believe that he owes no explanation to anybody. He never thought it necessary to explain to the Pakistanis, who had tampered with the ball and where. For him, the decision - whatever the reason behind it - was beyond scrutiny.
Clearly, while Hair has the experience of 76 umpiring Tests, he has little wisdom and respect in players …specially Asian players.
First of all forfeiting the match is not main issue here. Whole issue started with the accusation of ball tempering. While ruling to declare England seem in line with the rules, you really should look behind that. Why was Pakistan provoked to do that?
And secondly Pakistan did not walked out immediately coz Inzi had to make sure that none of the player did it. Like Woolmer said, they all told during the Tea break (on oath) that none of them did it.
Darrell Hair gave a middle finger to the game of cricket, to the people who play this game with dedication and to the fans who watch this game with great passion. He gave a message to everyone that he doesn’t give a damn about the game, the players and the fans because he thinks he is bigger than the game of cricket. And the job of International Comedy Councl is to put a seal on Hair’s statement, through their idiotic stance.
It is as simple as that!
Then why the hell did they (Pak team) come out to play? Like I said, if it was the principle which was at stake then they sud have stayed put. I wud have supported their stance as being principled and willing to accept any consequences, but by walking out to play they admitted their willingness to play under Darryl Hair. Please try to understand where we have gone wrong, mistake after mistake. We sud be looking for ways to try and correct this fiasco, ICC is already on the war path, they want to ban Inzi for 8one days or four test matches. What do u guys think Pakistan will or can do? How many countries will support Pakistan? Iam afraid, we have shot ourselves in the foot.
When Pakistan came back after their protest to play, Hair ko bhee game shuru ker daina chehyee tha but he didnt. His "ego" was in b/w.
It appears that Hair is beginning to believe that he owes no explanation to anybody. He never thought it necessary to explain to the Pakistanis, who had tampered with the ball and where. For him, the decision - whatever the reason behind it - was beyond scrutiny.
Clearly, while Hair has the experience of 76 umpiring Tests, he has little wisdom and respect in players ...specially Asian players.
^ hair does'nt care about the rules..guy is a spiteful racist pig..what he did to murali was not according to rules...an on-field umpire can not call a bowler for chucking,he can only report his action to the third umpire,but hair called murali for no ball because of his action and said that he was gonna do it again if given another chance.and even yesterday umpires are not supposed to call off the match without first getting a confirmation from the captain of either side that they are refusing to play.inzamam never said that he is refusing to play and he was never asked by the umpires.
I couldn't agree more. Here's how think they could have / should have protested in order of preference:
(1) Come out after tea with black bands on their arms, signifying that they are protesting against something. At the same time, the dressing room could have issued a statement to the press (and by extension, public) that Pakistan team is upset at the ball tampering accusation, however, in the spirit of the game, has decided to go on with the game, waiting for the end of day's play to stage a protest press conference.
(2) Soom after the ball was changed, Inzi should have told the umpires that he wants to take a five minutes break, could have asked his players to "SIT IN A LINE" in the ground and send for the coach and the manager. Discuss the situation with them ON THE field, and then either go off the field as a protest, or take the approach in (1).
(3) Stage a protest after tea, as they did. But DO NOT come back again, no matter the consequences. Had they not come out and caused this controversy over Umpire Hair's subsequent refusal to come out, everybody would be talking about the ball tampering issue and not the forfeiture issue.
In hindsight, Pakistan could have done things differently, I suppose. However that doesn't change the fact that Hair screwed us badly.
Pakistan could have dealt with the situation in a better manner however we need to understand that if they made mistakes, it was primarily because they were caught off guard. Getting the accusation of ball tempering is not something which players expect daily while entering the field.
Lets hope that Inzi and Pakistan management prepare a stong case on Friday when facing the trial, Inshallah.
