Has there ever been a more disgraceful cricket official than Darrell Hair?

[Hitman]

I often find myself asking this - Has there even been a more disgraceful cricket official than Darrell Hair? Just going back to that Oval Test and what happened after that makes me sick to my stomach.

I'm not going to talk about the details of that Oval Test since even blind 'Freddie' can see what happened. Accusing a team of cheating with no proof. I wonder if he would have had the balls back then to do the same thing to the BCCI board.

But what even disgusts me more is his demand to the ICC for $500,000 in order for him to resign, and to top it, the deal should be confidential. Bloody thief!

Darrell Hair is probably the one cricket official I truly can't stand. I really mean it.


What are the takes of my fellow posters here?

 

[Hitman]

The entire transcript of his e-mail to the ICC is there on Cricinfo for everyone to read and realize what type of a human being this man truly was.

 

[Hitman]

Oh, by the way. That sum was to be paid directly to his bank account.

 

[Junaids]

I can't stand Darrell Hair. But I'm going to defend him.

He is one of those characters - like the football referee Clive Thomas - who thought it was his job not to regulate the game but to direct it.

He knew the rules backwards, and was officious and undiplomatic in applying them. And he was a bully - we all know that Billy Doctrove was the "junior" umpire, but apart from when Hair was officiating, did you ever notice who was the senior or junior? No, me neither.

His refusal to restart the game was pig-headed and self-centred. But the rules and regulations did support him.

 

[adarsh_bang]

Never liked him. A grade one racist who thought too much of himself.

 

[Hitman]

Apart from that, have a look at his incompetence as an umpire -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntzC_xRDlWc


The guy acts and behaves as if he was of Dickie Bird's level as an umpire.

 

[Pete Rose]

Darrel hair had a poor bedside manner and that had a big role to play in all his controversies.