In a scenario worthy of Agatha Christie, tragedy has struck the Cricket World Cup.
Bob
Woolmer, the 58-year-old coach of the Pakistan international cricket team, was found dead in his hotel room last Sunday morning. I, like most people, assumed it to be a heart attack or something of that ilk. He was, like most coaches, an ex-jock - in fact, one of the five Cricketers of the Year for 1976.
As of Wednesday, however, the Jamaican police were categorizing the circumstances of his demise as "suspicious". Now, they have definitive proof from the autopsy that he was
strangled to death. Interestingly, this happened just after Pakistan lost their second match, dashing their hopes for advancement in the World Cup. The Pakistani players have all been DNA-tested and fingerprinted before flying home.
Hmmm.
For my American friends, this situation would be akin to a baseball manager being discovered lifeless by the cleaning maid (instead of asleep at the wheel by a police officer) the day after being eliminated in the playoffs. And, possibly, having the investigation uncover that it was
Ron Santo who strangled Dusty Baker after Steve
Bartman caught
the ball. Who knows?
More on this story as it develops...
