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Originally Posted by Tintin
I am not sure whether anyone would pull up the seam right infront of the umpire. If the the ball shows obvious signs of tampering, that should be enough.
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I don't think so. That may be enough to change the ball, but not enough to call that ball have been tampered intentionally. By awarding 5 penulty runs and refused to explain, Hair pretty much did that: without explaining who did that, when they did that, and the proof that whoever did that. And there lies the controversy and premature end of a fine game.
Now someone can bring up some rule # x.y.z from the book try to spin to support what Hair did, but to normal cricket fans, who have some grey matrial in their head, knows who messed up this fine game in the first place. Its the ego of that []. There is no iff or butts in that, we just need to use our commen sense to conclude that.