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Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer found unconscious in hotel room.

 

Not sure if this is the right thread, but after yesterday's result....?

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Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer found unconscious in hotel room.

 

Not sure if this is the right thread, but after yesterday's result....?

 

now with link (couldn't find one before)

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PAKISTAN CRICKET COACH BOB WOOLMER HAS DIED - PAKISTAN TV

CHANNEL QUOTES PAKISTAN TEAM SPOKESMAN

REUTERS

 

 

Regards,

Alphonsin (making a fleeting visit -- will try to come back properly shortly.)

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Very sad news. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's done a Keith Moon, I imagine I'd feel like many, many drinks if I were in his boots.

 

One other thing, now that this thread has become by default the cricket thread, should the name be changed to something less Australo-specific?

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Very sad news. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's done a Keith Moon, I imagine I'd feel like many, many drinks if I were in his boots.

 

One other thing, now that this thread has become by default the cricket thread, should the name be changed to something less Australo-specific?

 

Good call; I mean, we've got an F1 and footy thread...

 

Cricketers and suicide go well together, something we've discussed on the books thread with reference to the awesome Silence of the Heart. So we'll doubtless have much death related discussions, even for those of us who find the whole game a complete turn off.

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Very sad news. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he's done a Keith Moon, I imagine I'd feel like many, many drinks if I were in his boots.

 

One other thing, now that this thread has become by default the cricket thread, should the name be changed to something less Australo-specific?

 

Good call; I mean, we've got an F1 and footy thread...

 

Cricketers and suicide go well together, something we've discussed on the books thread with reference to the awesome Silence of the Heart. So we'll doubtless have much death related discussions, even for those of us who find the whole game a complete turn off.

A cricket thread would be most civilised and is sure to upset a few purists. The sport has a greater body of literature about it than any other (unless you count chess) so there's plenty of mileage here.

 

Did I tell you that I have have faced a ball from each of two Test match bowlers and took a single off each? (Actually I did tell you somewhere on this site) .

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Well as this seems the de facto Bob Woolmer thread, I'll post here & say this is the biggest surprise death of the year so far.

 

I mean he was there only yesterday watching grim-faced as Ireland magnificently trounced Pakistan. Then Jonathan Agnew & Manish whathisface were discussing whether he should come into the England set-up on the BBC highlights. Finally, only this morning I was reading his comments on the BBC website over the defeat.

 

Then BOOM. He's gone. :crossbone:

 

Suicide crossed my mind, but he was quite fat, so.... By the way, it appears his father, Clarence Woolmer, another cricketer, is still alive, aged 96.

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Well as this seems the de facto Bob Woolmer thread, I'll post here & say this is the biggest surprise death of the year so far.

 

I mean he was there only yesterday watching grim-faced as Ireland magnificently trounced Pakistan. Then Jonathan Agnew & Manish whathisface were discussing whether he should come into the England set-up on the BBC highlights. Finally, only this morning I was reading his comments on the BBC website over the defeat.

 

Then BOOM. He's gone. :crossbone:

 

Suicide crossed my mind, but he was quite fat, so.... By the way, it appears his father, Clarence Woolmer, another cricketer, is still alive, aged 96.

I believe that at least one person picked him in his 2007 deathlist

 

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Heart trouble, doubtless made worse by the showing of his side yesterday, is the main suspected cause of death.

 

But - as I said earlier on the thread - cricket and suicide do go together frequently.

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Cricket thread ?

Could that include inverted pedel boat pilots with a reputation for the booze ?

 

Yes I refer to Engerlund's ex-Vice Captain Freddy Flintoff.

 

Candidate for 2008 ?

 

Razor Boy

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Cricket thread ?

Could that include inverted pedel boat pilots with a reputation for the booze ?

 

Yes I refer to Engerlund's ex-Vice Captain Freddy Flintoff.

 

Candidate for 2008 ?

 

Razor Boy

 

Very long shot for 08 I'd say, he's a bit of a prat but he's got the focus to pull it together and he wants the career and the achievements enough to sort it, a bit. He's not, and never will be, in the Gazza league of idiotic self-destruction.

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obesity + diabetes + dodgy climate + losing against ireland at cricket = :)

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Rumours of a poisoning conspiracy conneted to match-fixing. Blimey, if true that is truly disturbing.

 

One report, from a South-East Asian publication, I read after his death said that one unusual thing the police found was the amount of vomit in the hotel room, more say than if it had been for a heart-attack.

Secondly, there were huge protests in Pakistan after they went out - effigies of Woolmer were burnt publically, crowds shouted "Death to Woolmer" (and others, of course) and the team were sent death threats.

 

This report, from Australia, says about the vomit again, but he also had suspicious marks on his throat.

 

The report also says he was about to reveal a lot about match-fixing in a book, and also that he wasn't diabetic after all. In addition his wife said he never mentioned any chest pain to her before his death. Also the police in Jamaica are actually now doing a murder investigation as to just an "Investigation".

 

Full Details here

 

If this is murder, then you have to wonder if they will continue with the World Cup. I know they didn't stop the World Cup when Escobar was shot in 1994, but...

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:) I say Flintoff killed him in a drunken rage.

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one unusual thing the police found was the amount of vomit in the hotel room, more say than if it had been for a heart-attack.

 

In the immortal words of Nigel Tufnell in This is Spinal Tap

 

 

 

"You can't dust for vomit."

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His biographer says they'd discussed the contents of the book - which was in progress at the time of his death - and that Woolmer had never indicated he was planning to say anything significant about match fixing. Woolmer was almost certainly unaware of the Cronje's fixing as South Africa captain.

 

Then again; maybe the biographer doesnt' fancy anyone's fingers on his throat.

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Pakistan team quizzed on Woolmer

 

Jamaican police have questioned members of Pakistan's cricket squad over the death of coach Bob Woolmer.

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So it's either poisoning or strangulation but they can't quite figure out which? Whatever.

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