Hair today, gone tomorrow?
Well someone had to make the joke. Darrell Hair has finally spoken up (in as much as the media have finally managed to print something) and has basically said what we were all thinking. Like everyone else involved in the whole saga, he’s sticking to his guns. He’s said he was just doing his job as well as believing he was right. Was he? Well that’s what the poll is for. So get voting.
Quite how this has angered the whole sub-continent, though, is quite beyond me. Whilst controversial, you can’t argue with the fact that Hair was simply doing his job. Yes, the question over evidence of ball tampering is still up in the air, but that’ll be resolved one way or the other sooner or later. But after the accusations was made, the penalty runs were added and the ball switched, Hair did conduct himself professionally. He stuck to the law - the laws that govern the game of Cricket as we know it - and did things by the book. Inzy, Pakistan, and now Sri Lanka and potentially India, are arguably in the wrong to think they can boycott the system on these grounds, much less accuse Hair of being racist.
Ball tampering, cheating, Darrell Hair and being no closer
So a day has passed since one of the most controversial test matches in Test history since the Bodyline tour was officially forfeited. If you don’t know about this - where have you been? OK, I’ll let you off. There’s enough accusations flying around without me starting on you. Sorry.
Anyway - 24 hours on and where are we? Well, still floating about in a cloud of confusion. This argument is going to rage and rage, until everyone gets really bored, and then remembers that the Ashes are but a few months away.
A few things have emerged:
The Oval test nonsense, update
… and still no closer to any sort of resolution. If you didn’t witness it, then read this and get yourself up to speed. And as I sit here, some 4 hours after the events began to unfold, I’m still no closer to knowing what’s going on. There has simply been nothing forthcoming from any of the powers-that-be involved in figuring out what’s going on.
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Ball tampering scandal at The Oval
Well well well. This is incredible. For anyone not watching Sky Sports at the moment, I can’t believe what I’m seeing. You must read this!
UPDATED BELOW.
I’ll try to summarise:
