The Australian official is at the centre of the recent ball-tampering allegations directed at the Pakistan cricket team.
In a remarkable twist to the affair, the ICC’s CEO Malcolm Speed revealed last week Hair had written to the ICC umpires’ manager Doug Cowie asking for a $500,000 pay-off to quit the game.
Hair responded at the weekend by insisting it was the ICC who had told him to put forward a financial offer.
But the ICC denied the claims. A spokesman said: “At no stage…was there any discussion of a pay-off, nor secrecy, nor deadlines, nor misleading the public regarding reasons for retirement, all of which were subsequently laid out in Mr Hair's email.”
Pakistan returned to international action for the first time since the controversy at the Oval, when they took on England in a Twenty20 match in Bristol.
