Pakistan lodged six charges against Darrell Hair in their complaint with the International Cricket Council that led to the Australian umpire being suspended from duty, an official said.
LAHORE: Pakistan lodged six charges against Darrell Hair in their complaint with the International Cricket Council that led to the Australian umpire being suspended from duty, an official said.
The news came on the day Australian media reports said Hair was ranked the world's equal second best umpire when he was removed from the ICC's elite panel of officials after his role in the Oval test fiasco in August.
Pakistan's complaints discussed by the ICC executive board members last month in Mumbai led to a 7-3 vote in favour of removing Hair from international duty last week.
The standoff between Pakistan and Hair began when he charged them with ball-tampering at the Oval Test against England which led to a protest from the Pakistan team and the game's first forfeited match.
A Pakistan Cricket Board official said on Saturday the complaint sheet had been prepared by two legal firms.
“One main complaint was that Hair disregarded his fellow umpire, Billy Doctrove's advice while changing the ball and penalising our team for ball-tampering,” the official said.
“Doctrove had advised Hair to wait for a few more overs before changing the ball but he insisted on doing it immediately and Doctove then relented,” he said.
Doctrove, the official said, had given this statement during the ICC disciplinary hearing in London in September when Pakistan were cleared of ball-tampering but captain Inzamam-ul-Haq was banned for four games for bringing the game into disrepute.
The Pakistan official added Hair violated regulations by only informing the England team of the Test's forfeiture.
Pakistan's legal team alleged Hair acted independently and did not speak to the captains in confidence before deciding to call the game off, he said.
The PCB accused Hair of being rude to the Pakistanis and of undermining the umpire's job by asking for money to retire from the elite panel.
Soon after the Oval incident, it was revealed Hair asked for $500,000 compensation from the ICC to retire.
The ICC has said it will seek talks with Hair to discuss his future as an international umpire as his contract with them expires in June next year.
Sydney's Daily Telegraph quoted confidential ICC reports on Saturday that showed Hair was ranked only behind fellow Australian Simon Taufel in the list of leading test umpires.
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