Hair's statement came after the ICC has launched an "urgent investigation" into the claims made by an Indian television channel that several umpires were willing to fix matches for money in the just-concluded Twenty20 World Cup and Sri Lanka Premier League.

"I was wondering how long it would take before some umpire did some stupid things," he said. "There have been rumours going around for ages, since the IPL started, that umpires were involved," Hair was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press.