Ask yourself why there are umpires John O'L

As far as I know Hair asked the Pakistani skipper if he was coming out, and I think the answer was no.
Hair then went to the wicket with the English players and presumably announced play, then allowed 2 minutes, but play didn't commence becuase the opposition had refused to come out. He then applied the rules as an umpire should.
What do you think he should have done, crawled back to the dressing rooms and pleaded with them.

I think not. Your authority has then been taken away.

An umpire is there to interpret the rules, not to be a psychologist.

All players will back each other against the umpire if they can get away with it, especially if they haven't umpired themselves. Its alright listening to the player/reporters of Sky, but has an umpire put their point of view yet. Its all loaded one way.

As an ex umpire at village cricket level LOL, I know just what it is like when you have to make decisions with players who will try and get away with anything if they can.

Sometimes I have to wonder why umpires do the job. Technology is constantly trying to make them look idiots.

I remember once umpiring at a match in the Black Country.
The wicket keeper was a tough old nut, who stood right up to the fast bowlers. I wondered why he stood up right on the stumps, until I had to make a stumping ruling.
What this guy did, was touch the wicket with his pads so that the bails dislodged whilst he was collecting the ball. Becuase it was so fast and becuase as an umpire you had to process so many things in the flash of a second, a poor umpire would have given the batsmen out.
I gave not out, and the wicketkeeper asked me why he wasn't out. Its not up to the umpire to explain, but I did explain that he had dislodged the bails before catching the ball and striking the wicket.
After that he didn't try it again, becuase he knew I had twigged him.
Afterwards I found out that was a trick he used and was very succesful with it too.