Friday, March 23, 2007

Murder they Bowled!

Bob Woolmer in a mortuary at Kingston, Jamaica
Picture by AFP, from Gulf News Cover Page

It is finally official, more official than the Pepsi's catch line "Nothing official about it", Bob Woolmer was murdered. The Jamaican Police after days of speculation have finally admitted the fact that it was no longer a mysterious death and that it is beyond proof a murder case.

This World Cup is now turning itself worthy of a Sherlock Holmes thriller. The Scotland Yard is already making it's presence felt by sending two detectives to aid investigations.

The entire Pakistan Cricket squad have been questioned and had their fingerprints taken, and now the race is on to find out the murderer. This rat chase has left the World Cup at second place in people's mind. Who cares about the Super Eight, now it is all about who are the major suspects? We have bookies, Sub-continental mafias, Irish Mafia, and even possibly some one from the Pakistan Cricket Squad. Everyone's a suspect! Now it turns out the venue of the crime was a crime scene on two earlier occasions as well.

This World Cup is turning out to be more like a script of "Murder they Bowled." It is a wait and watch game as the Jamaican Police bowl all over and see which one of the suspects will have their wickets busted and exposed as the "murderer".

One thing for sure, Greg Chappel and other team coaches will be having sleepless nights and nightmares as the "Coach Killer" is still on the loose. So much for the tagline of being the gentleman's game - it is all about the money and the off-field players who run the game now (read bookies). Just a shame that a highly talented coach had to be cricket's first high profile victim.

“Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base - in both senses - greed” ~ John Fowles


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*Hotel was scene of two murders
*Deceased Coach Had E-Mailed His Resignation To PCB On Sunday Itself

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

its sucha shame..it ruins da whole spirit of world cup...
r.i.p woolmer