Umpire Darrell Hair is to take legal action against world cricket’s governing body and the Pakistan Cricket Board for racial discrimination.

Hair feels he was made a scapegoat when he was barred from officiating Test matches after the forfeited Oval Test between England and Pakistan in August.

Billy Doctrove, his fellow umpire in the game when Pakistan were accused of ball-tampering, is now back in action.

Hair stood in a match between Kenya and Scotland in Nairobi on Wednesday.