Did first-innings tricks alert Hair?
Derek Pringle, writing in the Daily Telegraph , believes that the first innings may point to ball suspicions.
Sriram Veera
25-Feb-2013
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Derek Pringle, writing in the Daily Telegraph, believes that the first innings may point to ball suspicions.
One answer that has come to light, via the usual information creep, is that the ball Pakistan used in England's first innings displayed such obvious signs of tampering (much more than the ball the umpires eventually changed) that Hair, at least in his own mind, needed only slender evidence in the second innings to pounce.
... Asif's methods of polishing the ball, which he does with both hands on both thighs, though not at the same time. The mystery though is that a red stripe (the usual sign that a ball is being polished) appears only on his left thigh and not his right.
Hair’s career options seem to be widening, even if he is removed from the ICC’s elite panel. Alex Brown writes in the Sydney Morning Herald Hair could be appointed on the international panel, which is one step down, while Ivo Tennant says in The Times there is a chance of him being an assessor of first-class umpires in England.
Sriram Veera is a former staff writer at ESPNcricinfo