Umpires' body attacks ICC over Hair issue
Wednesday, November 15, 2006 05:12 [IST]
Melbourne: An umpires' association has attacked the International Cricket Council for its treatment of Australian umpire Darrell Hair and threatened to boycott its sponsors to show its displeasure.
Peter Hughes, executive officer of the New South Wales Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association, has shot off a letter to ICC Chief Executive Malcolm Speed to register their grievances.
Hughes said the axing of Hair from the elite panel was a "travesty of justice" and would discourage people from taking up umpiring, a report in the 'Sydney Morning Herald' said here today.
Hair was sacked from the ICC Elite Panel of Umpires at an Executive Board meeting in Mumbai early this month.
Hughes also slammed the ICC for lifting the life-ban on Pakistan bowler Ata-ur-Rehman at the same meeting.
"Neither prospect bodes well for the future of international cricket," Hughes wrote, accusing the ICC of bowing to the members of the powerful Asian Cricket Council rather than upholding the laws and values of the game.
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