ICC's 'Hair'oics - Between a rock and a hard place

With Inboxes full of 'Hair'y puns (and SMSes galore) this is Hairdly the best time to be punny In zy humble opinion of this blogger. ( Yeah, that was a really pathetic one, wasn't it ? But, as Oscar Wilde famously said, "I can resist everything except temptation.") All right, nauseating jokes and puns aside, where do we go from here? If the ball wasn't tampered with, Hair and Doctrove made a gigantic blunder. It makes Hair's position on the Elite panel of umpires untenable. Other umpires before him have been booted off the panel for far lesser booboos. How long can the ICC continue to shield him? On the other hand, there are bound to be mutterings, especially from the Australian media and establishment, that the adjudicator and the ICC bowed to Asian money power and made Hair the scapegoat. The ICC's strange behaviour certainly lends credence to that view. It seems to want to run with the Hairs( sorry, hares) and hunt with the hounds. It wants to keep everybody happy - the Pakis and the rest of the Asians by proclaiming that there was no ball-tampering, and the white bloc by continuing to have Hair on the Elite panel. I wonder if they've heard of the phrase 'falling between two stools' ?