Death at the Cricket World Cup
How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.
In March 2007, Bob Woolmer, the English coach of the Pakistan cricket team, was found dead in his hotel room in Jamaica shortly after his side suffered a shock defeat at the Cricket World Cup. The Jamaican police launched a murder inquiry when an initial pathologist鈥檚 report suggested Woolmer had been strangled. Wild rumours spread around the tournament linking the death to match-fixing, but later forensic examinations indicated the causes of death were natural. The 大象传媒 cricket presenter Alison Mitchell talks to Mark Shields, the British detective who led the murder inquiry, and Bob Woolmer鈥檚 son, Dale Woolmer.
PHOTO: Bob Woolmer (Getty Images)
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