Pakistan is rallying behind its cricket team

One paper concedes that Mr Hair "might have seen something wrong", but says that even so, he should have come up with proof.

The star of the show definitely was umpire Darrell Hair, but as a villain of the piece... Players from the sub-continent universally feel that he is biased... Pakistan... were in their right to protest... Will it be the end of the road for [Hair]? If it is, it would not be a day too soon. But it is indeed sad that it has taken such a huge incident to remove a distasteful bully from the scene.

It was inappropriate to protest after more than one hour and if they had decided not to field, then why did they come? ... Bob Woolmer is an English person and he has favoured [England] to send the team back into the ground.

Hair is one of those characters when he wears the white umpire's coat, he metamorphoses into a mini Hitler... During my career I have seen such umpires who go out of their way to make their authority felt. They are umpiring fundamentalists. Such characters court controversy.

Technically as per [the] International Cricket Council's rules Pakistan has lost the match.

The dice has been too heavily loaded in favour of one side against the other... Hair excelled himself, even by his own unfathomable standards... It is seriously time to examine the possibility of taking this man to a court of law... Enough is enough. The Darrell Hair problem now has to be addressed and it does not look as if there is much hope that ICC will do so.

It took a ball tampering allegation from the infamous Darrell Hair to add drama to an otherwise dead rubber.

[Current Pakistan captain] Inzamam should have taken the decision of leaving the ground at that very moment when the umpires decided to change the ball or either he should have kept on playing because Pakistan were in the winning position... Umpire Darrell Hair must have seen something wrong but he should have come up with proof.