Hair was robustly unrepentant in his 1998 autobiography Decision Maker in which he said Muralitharan's action was "diabolical" and added he was prepared to call him again.
In the following year the India team in England were unhappy at some of his decisions and three years later Hair had an altercation with then India coach Kapil Dev during a match against New South Wales.
He also no-balled part-time Zimbabwe left-armer Grant Flower three times for throwing in 2000 and the controversies must have contributed to the International Cricket Council's (ICC) decision to leave him off their initial elite umpires' panel in 2002.
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