Cricket: Darrell Hair's role in the controversial ball-tampering affair has prompted his removal from a second team fixture this week by the England and Wales Cricket Board.
The Australian umpire, who is on the ECB's reserve list, was due to stand in Wednesday's second XI fixture between Derbyshire and Gloucestershire.
It would have been his first umpiring appointment since emerging as the key figure in the ball-tampering row which caused the premature end of the final Test between England and Pakistan at The Oval nine days ago.
But after serious consideration, officials from the ECB have stood Hair down from the fixture because of the media spotlight which is still upon him nine days after the events at the Oval.
"It is inappropriate for him to do the match with what is going on," confirmed Chris Kelly, the ECB's Umpires and Match Operations Manager. "There are lots and lots of issues."
Hair and fellow on-field umpire Billy Doctrove sparked the controversy by changing the ball on the Sunday afternoon of the Test and awarding England five penalty runs in accordance with the laws of the game because they believed the condition of the ball had been altered.
Pakistan were incensed by the decision and refused to return to the field immediately after tea, leading to the umpires announcing the Test would be forfeited and awarded to England.
Since those dramatic scenes Pakistan have confirmed they were concerned with Hair's attitude and Pakistan captain Inzamam-ul-Haq has been charged with two breaches of the code of conduct.
But perhaps the most startling revelation during the crisis was the International Cricket Council, the world's governing body, making public that Hair had offered to resign from his position in return for a US dollars 500,000 pay-off.