DEAR SIR
DARREL SHOULD RESIGN

REVERSE SWING CONTROVERSY
HERE WE GO AGAIN
Before I may say anything let me assure you that I am an ardent fan of Cricket and I love this game so whatever I say is not due to partialism.
I am going to be straight forward in what I want to say....no diplomatic ways of narration...because I have had enough of whining and worst spotsmanship by the English....
Today we have had another drama about Reverse Swing......Last year when Jones,Flintoff and Hoggard were reverse swinging ,never was the ball shown to be examined by umpires and it was taken to be just a case of an art being put in practice....!! The English Trio was hailed as MASTERS OF REVERSE SWING...!!!! No one found anything wrong....
Now I want to take you back almost 15 years in the past....1990-91.... West Indies Captain D.Haynes and New zealand Captain M.Crowe ”ACCUSED” Pakistan for doing ”something ” to the ball....In fact it was just because they were whiners who could not take defeats fairly......Similarly in 1992 English media,newspapers,Players and dare I say even children and housewives went up in unison that PAKISTAN is tempering with ball....!!! Fact was that ENGLISH were totally oblivious with regards to this art...They did not know about it altogether...
Hence each English player thought ”if I don’t know how to do it then it must be something illegal ...so why NOT accuse the other party and hide my embarrasment of defeat through these allegations...”
Plainly I can say that if Person A does not know how to solve mathematical equations but person B does ...then if A accuses B to be proponent of witch craft...then it will be a sad case of accusation due to one’s own less-learned approach...!!! That is exactly what has been happening till last year when finally England learned to reverse swing....
It is on record that once I.Botham said ...”THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS REVERSE SWING...IT IS ALL BUT PURE CHEATING” and now he is seen saying ”ENGLAND BOWLERS ARE THE MASTERS OF REVERSE SWING....”
HMMMM ...How quickly one can change one’s words and thoughts......I even read in in English newspapers last year that reverse swing is as old as 1930’s and has been in practice in England...since then....how amazing....!!!!
Now today when England thought they were going to lose fairly and squarely....an old ”ally” came to their rescue..in the form of ever controversial, highly inept DARREL HAIR...Who seems to plagued with different ”HUMAN ERRORS OF JUDGEMENT” whenever he is adjudicating on an appeal raised by Indian, Pakistani,Srilankan player.....He might not hear a big nick from 22 yards though it might be heard by a sparrow sitting 75 yards away on boundary..!!!
He can ask for banning players for ”over appealing” , he can warn bowlers and even batsmen for tempering with wicket...by running on it (only Asians have been accused by him..be it TENDULKAR,SALMAN BUT OR KANERIA...)...
Then he can call a bowler a chucker...be it Murali,Afridi, Akhtar,Shabbir or Hafeez....
Still he is on elite panel....Pakistan team have lodged official complaints about this HIGHLY PARTIAL umpire at least 3 times in 5 years...but still he is seen officiating no other match but those involving Pakistan,,....
Fact of the matter is that with the passage of time this man has been growing wild with respect to Asian countries...and now he has started going really berserk....What happened today is totally INCOMPREHENSIBLE.....
When after each over the ball is examined then how on earth the ball was deemed to be tempered so suddenly.......
It is a fact that HAIR must be congratulated that in Cricket History ...he is only the second umpire after T.Robinson from Zimbabwe ..who actually tempered with the ball....yes T.Robinson actually soaked a ball in water after he saw it reversing for Pakistan during a match in 1998....
Today, I am sure that it was HAIR who scratched the ball with blades during some break....WHY DO WE ALWAYS ACCUSE TEAMS...IF ROBINSON DID IT IN 1998 why can’t Hair do it in 2006....
I think we should look this matter from other PERSPECTIVE.....Justice can only be met if impartialty is met with....
Because when umpires are always checking ball how can it be tempered...if and only if they are BLIND or if they are tempering with it themselves....
Nowadays cameras are there...millions are watching on TV and scores of officials on ground are there....nowadays ball can not be scratched so easily by players ...unless an umpire DOES it himself ...YES an umpire can temper with the ball legally ...on the pretext of setting the seem of ball right by plucking with blades.........!!!!!!
So before getting on to any conclusion I think looking at track record of this HIGHLY PARTIAL and dare I say very very rude umpire ....if justice is to be maintained then he should also be probed.....and what to say about his fellow umpire BILLY DOCTROVE....Who dileberately did not give Jimmy Adams caught behind against Pakistan in 2000 and Pakistan lost....later on he went into Pakistan dressing room...and officially apologized for partial umpiring...!!! wow...and still he is on elite panel and officiating in allaince with D.HAIR...
I think if fast bowlers can hunt in pairs then shrewd and dishonest umpires can also hunt as well as hurt in pairs....!!!!!
I think umpires are not beyond the game...they are part of it and they are human too...so they can resort to vindictism and wrong doing...so why not probe them too.........
CASE CLOSED......
A VERY VERY DISAPPOINTED FAN OF GAME OF GENTLEMEN...!!!!

I agree with Miandad and his cricketing thought Inzamam could follow. Cricket is a game where everything goes on in a disciplined way and Pakistan could easily make appeal against the decision Hair took in stead of taking such a decision which has no meaning and thus they lost the way of appealing and the ultimate result is that Inzamam himself is now accused of violating the rule of cricket.

Dear Tasmeena,

In fact, your comment is very sound. You have explored dark sides of ICC, what we have been witnessing over the years. The oval incident where Pakistan Cricket Team was the wrost sufferer of Hair’s wrao is just a reminder.However, the way Pakistan cricket team reacted is also condemnable. Because, they shoud not leave the ground at least for the tea session.

it’s a very big issue of accusing a team of ball tampering OR CHEATING in other word’s
i believe INZAMAM did the right thing by protesting, it’s been happening wid da sub-continental teams time n again.....we needed sumone 2 raise our voices to ICC......m very hapy dat this happened.....atleast they’ll think twice before accusing a team widout any proof.....
i bet u if it would hav been australia or south africa.....they would hav walked off the field straight away.
WELL DONE INZI!!!!