(26 Aug 2006)
1. Wide of Islamabad
2. Pedestrians on street
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Khan, former Pakistan cricket captain:
“This is quite a surprise, you know, someone putting a price tag on himself when there is such a controversy raging which he is responsible for, where he has, you know, maligned a whole cricket team and as a result the people in this country feel sort of insulted by being called cheats – a unilateral decision without giving any evidence. So it has led to a whole series of events. And you would have expected, you know, if he says he was in that frame of mind when he was under pressure, you would have expected something else, but not this. Sort of putting a price tag on himself and saying ‘OK, you give me 500 thousand dollars, I would resign.’ It just doesn’t make sense.”
4. Various of Islamabad
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Imran Khan, former Pakistan cricket captain:
“I would have thought that this goes against him (Hair) because, you know, an umpire is like a judge and you expect a judge to have higher credibility, moral standards. Some of this goes against him you know, a judge sort of wanting, ok, if there is a controversy ‘you pay me so much money and I’m out of it’. It hits at his credibility and an umpire whose credibility goes down means it casts doubt about his future.”
6. Various of printing presses and workers at Pakistani daily newspaper ‘The Nation’
7. Pull out from headline ‘Darrel Hair’s hush money demand’
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Khurram Shahzad, sports writer, ‘The Nation’:
“There are people who feel that Inzamam (-ul-Haq ) should not have acted in this way, but the majority of the people believe that he has done a right thing and he should have done this because they feel that Hair has attacked not only on Inzamam-ul-Haq but the repute of the whole Pakistani nation. They actually allege that Pakistanis are cheats. So I think that is something serious and people feel he has done a good thing.”
9. Various of copy editors in newspaper newsroom
STORYLINE:
Pakistan’s former test cricket captain, Imran Khan, said he was surprised at reports that the Australian umpire at the centre of cricket’s ball-tampering furore had offered to resign if the ICC (international Cricket Council) paid him 500,000 US dollars.
Khan told AP Television News that the affair hit at umpire Darrell Hair’s credibility and ‘casts a doubt about his future.’
“An umpire is like a judge and you expect a judge to have higher credibility, moral standards,” Khan said.
Darrell Hair and fellow umpire Billy Doctrove ruled that Pakistan illegally interfered with the ball on Sunday in the final test match against England in London, and imposed a five-run penalty.
The Pakistan players protested by not rejoining the field of play after an interval, an action which resulted in the umpires awarding the match to England.
Following the game Pakistan captain, Inzamam-ul-Haq, was charged with ball-tampering and for bringing the game into disrepute, sparking fears that Pakistan would withdraw from the coming five-match one-day series.
The new developments topped the front pages of Pakistan’s newspapers on Saturday.
Sports writer for Pakistani daily ‘The Nation’ says that most people in Pakistan supported Inzamam-ul-Haq’s action as captain as, he says, they feel Hair has attacked the repute of the Pakistani nation.

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