Thread: Create respect for the Umpire by re-evaluating his role
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Old 28-08-2006, 05:13 PM in reply to Occasional Fan's post starting "Well, Mongoose, here's one: That,..."
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Originally Posted by Occasional Fan
There is no way that Darrell Hair will be shown to have acted beyond his brief: the Laws are clearly on his side in all of this.
As I recall... Boycott suspects Hair lacked sufficient grounds for making the charge he made... and if, as expected, Inzi is cleared of unfairly affecting the condition of the ball the conclusion of the ICC will - by implication - be that Hair DID exceed his brief.