The PCB rubbished Darrell Hair's charges of racial discrimination and said former captain Inzamam-ul Haq was not obliged to appear as a witness in the Australian umpire's case.
KARACHI: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Tuesday rubbished Darrell Hair's charges of racial discrimination and said former captain Inzamam-ul Haq was not obliged to appear as a witness in the Australian umpire's case against the ICC.
PCB chairman Nasim Ashraf said that Inzamam was not obliged to appear as a witness for which he has been summoned by Hair's legal counsel.
The summon was served to Inzamam while he was in England playing for Yorkshire but has since returned home.
Ashraf revealed that Inzamam had not approached the PCB for any help as yet but if he did, the board would support him wholeheartedly.
"Hair's charges are nonsense as the entire ICC executive board took a decision against him because of his own doing," he said.
The hearing into the case began in the Central Employment Tribunal in London on Monday.
Hair's counsel has told the tribunal that the ICC bowed to pressure from the Asian countries when it sacked his client in the aftermath of the infamous Oval Test fiasco last year during which he charged the Pakistanis of tampering with the ball.
The charges led to the then skipper Inzamam refusing to resume the match after tea in protest. Hair and fellow umpire, Billy Doctrove eventually awarded the match to England, making it the first forfeiture result in Test history.
Hair's lawyer told the tribunal that his client suffered racial discrimination at the hands of the ICC and that the Indian and Pakistani boards heavily influenced the ICC.
The ICC executive board, at its Mumbai meeting last November, de-listed Hair from the elite panel although he was contracted to the ICC until April.
Ashraf said being members of the ICC he would be appearing before the tribunal as he was also part of the three-member committee constituted by the ICC to hear and decide Hair's future after the Oval incident.
"There is no racial discrimination in the ICC. All decisions are taken by the executive board which includes other countries apart from Pakistan and India," Ashraf asserted.
He noted that apart from Pakistan other countries had also complained off Hair's attitude and behaviour before the Oval incident.
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