London, Aug 22 (IANS) Pakistan Tuesday threatened to pull out of the forthcoming one-day international series against England if their captain Inzamam-ul Haq was not cleared of ball-tampering charges even as the International Cricket Council (ICC) maintained it will not be intimidated by such remarks.

England were awarded the fourth cricket Test after umpires Billy Doctrove and Darrell Hair deemed Pakistan to have forfeited the match. The umpires made their decision when the Pakistan side failed to emerge from the dressing rooms after the tea interval at the Oval Sunday.

This followed the umpires' awarding of five penalty runs to England during the second session of the fourth day after alleged interference with the match ball by the fielding side.

The ICC has charged Inzamam on two counts - ball tampering and bringing the game into disrepute. Inzamam appears at an ICC hearing Friday where he could face a ban of up to four Tests or eight one-day internationals.

In a veiled threat, Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer warned that if maximum punishment is levied it will place into doubt the scheduled one-day international series between his side and England.

"If Inzamam is penalised and penalised heavily, which he could well be, then I cannot guarantee that my side will definitely play," Woolmer told BBC's Newsnight programme.

Woolmer said he was not sure how the current controversy could be resolved.

"We'd like this all to go away and in fact we don't really want to be critical of umpiring. It goes against the spirit of the game.

"In this particular instance, unfortunately, it's gone just a little bit too far and so I don't quite know what the answer is."

England and Pakistan are due to play a Twenty20 match at Bristol Aug 28, to be followed by five one-day internationals.

Meanwhile Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Shaharyar Khan has said the board would not accept Australian umpire Darrell Hair for future matches.

Though Hair has not been appointed to stand in the one-day series, Pakistan expressed their reluctance to the ICC in playing any matches in future with the Australian in charge.

Khan said a protest had been lodged with the ICC over Hair.

"We at the PCB would not want to see Darrell Hair appointed to any Pakistan match in the future," he said.

"We have had problems with Hair, the team has lost confidence in him and they feel deeply offended by his attitude towards them. Therefore, his presence in any match in which Pakistan is playing is not desirable."

Khan said the team had no problem with Doctrove, who is scheduled to stand in the first three ODIs.

Former Australian umpire Dick French said he feared Hair's career could be over if the powerful Asian cricket bloc united to demand his ban from matches involving the subcontinent's teams.

French, a former mentor of Hair and now on the Cricket Australia umpire selection panel, feared Pakistan and its cricket allies India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh could "gang up" to have the 53-year-old Hair sidelined.

"If the Asian bloc gangs up on him and says 'We don't want him appointed in our games', there might be trouble."