Michael Beloff QC, appearing for the ICC, dismissed any suggestion that Hair had been a victim of racial discrimination. “In cricketing terms, Hair ran himself out,” he said. Beloff shrugged off accusations that the ICC had acted hypocritically by not punishing Doctrove.
“In fact, if not in law, Hair was by far the senior partner of the pair in terms of experience, and the moving force in what occurred,” he said.