Umpires

The perfect template to ruin a sport

The post-tournament flack continues to fly three days after the end of the World Cup

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Hair transplant in Mombasa

Having presided over one of the most controversial days of cricket last year, Darrell Hair was subsequently sacked by the ICC from officiating in top-flight international matches

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Dinner with Billy Bowden

Billy Bowden is well known for his umpiring idiosyncracies

25-Feb-2013•ESPNcricinfo staff

Speed wanted to keep Hair

Ben Dorries and Robert Craddock, writing in The Courier-Mail , report Malcolm Speed wanted to save Darrell Hair from the axe .

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

'The state of the ball surprised me'

In the aftermath of the Code of Conduct hearing at The Oval, the media has gone into overdrive

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Lawyers put umpires to the test

Although the ICC Code of Conduct hearing was conducted behind locked doors at The Oval, that has not stopped a couple of reports appearing offering insights into what happened.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

More spotlight for men in black and white

Umpires are in the news again today, starting with Darrell Hair’s belief he will stand in the Champions Trophy

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Hair breaks silence to hit back at critics

Darrell Hair, the umpire at the centre of cricket's biggest controversy since Bodyline more than 70 years ago, has broken his silence to hit back at those critics who have condemned his role in the Pakistan ball-tampering affair

25-Feb-2013•George Binoy

For Darrell Hair read the village vicar

It could have been a scene out of England, Their England ..

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Some Vaseline for Hair

Speaking of umpires and controversies, Judah Reuben, a former Indian umpire, recalls his moment in the spotlight, during the John Lever-Vaseline controversy in Madras in 1976-77

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Hair has lost all his credibility

Darrell Hair should never umpire another cricket match - even though there may be some truth in his claim that he was encouraged by the ICC to make an offer to quit as an umpire, writes Tony Becca in the Jamaica Gleaner .

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Hair: should we feel sorry for him?

25-Feb-2013•Will

Rallying behind an Aussie

Australians often fall over themselves to defend a fellow countrymen irrespective of the evidence presented, or the lack of it - as in the recent ball-tampering controversy - writes Neil Manthorp in Supercricket

25-Feb-2013•Kanishkaa Balachandran

Speed burns Hair at the stake

Malcolm Conn writes in The Australian how Malcolm Speed, the ICC chief executive, has "burnt Darrell Hair at the stake" .

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Emails cast Hair into the wilderness

25-Feb-2013•Siddhartha Vaidyanathan

Jarman recalls SA's tampering under Woolmer

Barry Jarman, the former match referee, says he confiscated a ball from the South African team, which was being coached by Bob Woolmer , when it was only 16 overs old because the seam had been lifted

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

Hair and Inzamam should be sacked

Peter Roebuck breaks away from the Australia media pack to attack Darrell Hair for his decision at The Oval

25-Feb-2013•Peter English

No country is above the rules

A lead editorial in The Age has slammed the conduct of Pakistan’s players in refusing to take to the field at The Oval on Sunday.

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Loneliness of the long-distance umpire

While it seems that the world is queuing up to have a pop at Darrell Hair, Pat Gibson in The Times has highlighted that the job of being one of the ICC's elite umpires is not all that it is cracked up to be: It sounds like a life of glamour,

25-Feb-2013•Martin Williamson

Hair today, gone tomorrow

Simon Barnes, in The Times , writes a passionate piece about the "vanity" of Darrell Hair and "how a single man’s pigheadedness was allowed to disrupt the fun of millions, to give cricket a terrible, gaping wound and to add to the tensions between

25-Feb-2013•Will

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