Darrell Hair quits

[stumpski]

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/australia/content/current/story/365890.html


He's actually standing today, in the match between Canada and West Indies, but as Tests are likely to be few and far between in future he's decided to take up an alternative offer. Remains on the elite panel until October but presumably won't be going to Pakistan and with little or no Test cricket scheduled until then he's presumably stood in his last Test .

 

[itduzz]

PCB & Inzi had the last laugh...

 

[bryce]

Very good news for world cricket

 

[Craig]

I'll be honest with you, I, like many others, never thought he would stand another Test again after Ovalgate.

 

[pup11]

I'll be honest with you, I, like many others, never thought he would stand another Test again after Ovalgate.

AWTA! Hair just wasn't fit enough to be an on-field umpire, because time and again he has shown lack of the ability to interact with the players and develop a good understanding with them and gain their respect, and that' one of the most important skills an umpire should have, he was very good umpire though, as far decison making was concerned.

 

[Chemosit]

no loss to International cricket I don't think. One of the very few people I have met that I genuinely dislike.

 

[_Ed_]

Hope the door doesn't hit his arse on the way out.

 

[duffer]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[andmark]

I'm actually shocked to hear of it. From what i know he had one dodgy match, and that was a fair wile ago.

 

[Smudge]

Hope the door doesn't hit his arse on the way out.

The door is going to have a hell of a job missing it...

 

[_Ed_]

Yeah, good point.

 

[Anil]

hopefully the prick stays "quit" this time, cricket can do without his kind...

 

[Ahmed_Tariq]

PCB & Inzi had the last laugh...

Haha, rofl, they absolutely did. And yeah, good riddance. We can certainly do with other quality umpires like Simon Taufel, Aleem Dar, Rudi Koertzen and the likes. We don't actually need rubbish like Hair these days. People like Darell Hair give the game a bad name.

 

[Richard]

Think Hair had the last laugh myself personally. TBH, though I thought he was the principal player via his thoughtless and frankly downright self-centred actions in Ovalgate, I didn't think he deserved the end that would have come had he not "returned" to international Umpiring earlier this year. He now finishes on his own terms and hopefully the international game will be better without him standing in Pakistan and Sri Lanka games without having had the clumsy break that would otherwise have been the case. I also think he's probably far better off not standing in international games himself, so really it's the best case for everyone.

All the same, whenever Daryl Harper or Mark Benson makes some howler or other in India vs New Zealand or West Indies vs South Africa, you'll never be able to help but wonder.

 

[bryce]

Yea that is right, the ICC were botch enough to re-instate him

 

[Richard]

When your alternatives are the like of Harper, Benson and Howell, it'd be plain idiocy not to reinstate him, as long as he's kept away from Pak and SL (and it turns-out he was kept away from everyone except Eng and NZ).

 

[bryce]

Come to think of it the only umpires I can stand are Taufel and Davis

 

[Precambrian]

Good riddance. Cricket will be much better without this bigoted fellow.

 

[Richard]

It is so amusing the way these "bigoted" ideas are said as if it was known beyond all doubt.

Almost as stupid as Australian "fans" who say as-fact "the chucker Murali".

 

[Ahmed_Tariq]

It is so amusing the way these "bigoted" ideas are said as if it was known beyond all doubt.

Almost as stupid as Australian "fans" who say as-fact "the chucker Murali".

Haha, lol.