Darrell Hair

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It has been an odd month in cricket

Former international umpire Darrell Hair has said the ICC's crackdown on bowlers with suspect actions has come 20 years too late

Muttiah Muralitharan has forgiven the umpire Darrell Hair and forgotten the no-ball call that threatened to derail his career

Darrell Hair, the umpire at the centre of the controversy that led to the abandonment of the 2006 Oval Test between England and Pakistan, has claimed that meddling board officials were to blame for the escalation of the row

Ross Emerson, the Australian umpire who no-balled Muttiah Muralitharan during an ODI against England in Adelaide in 1999, insists the offspinner doesn't deserve his record of most wickets in Tests and the 50-over format

Is the decision to give the go-ahead to the IPL right, given the risks involved in the wake of the Lahore attack and the implications that any untoward incident during the tournament will have?

ICC chief executive Haroon Lorgat's has said umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis needed to be "more rational" in their assessment of the security in Lahore

Darrell Hair has called on all the ICC board members involved in the original decision to change the result of the 2006 Oval Test to resign

Darrell Hair, the Australian umpire, has tended his resignation with the ICC in order to take up a coaching role

The MCC has asked the ICC to reverse its decision to alter the forfeited Test between England and Pakistan at The Oval in 2006 into a draw

Darrell Hair has been included in Cricket Australia's four-member Umpire High Performance Panel, which will help guide and develop umpires in the country

One of the most significant moments of the Old Trafford Test will happen moments before the first ball is bowled. Darrell Hair will walk to one of the sets of stumps, either at the Stretford or Brian Statham End, and put the bails in place. Twenty-one mon

Eleven players who made a return to the fold after their time had appeared to have passed by

Darrell Hair will make his return to top-level international umpiring in the second Test between England and New Zealand at Old Trafford on May 23

Peter Willey, the chairman of the umpires' association, has admitted he is pleased to see Darrell Hair restored to the ICC's elite panel

The ICC have given their strongest indication yet that Darrell Hair will return to Test umpiring for England's home series against New Zealand in May

Darrell Hair has vowed to improve his communication skills after being reinstated as a Test and one-day international umpire