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The silence of Bob Woolmer

Soon after Cronjegate, Woolmer wanted to put the rotten apple back in the basket. I mean he wanted to help Cronje make a comeback into the game - in some form or the other. That Woolmer was silent through the Cronjegate period - and remained silent for a long time... There are rumours that he was about to end his silence on Match-fixing/Betting... His biographer, Ivo Tennant, wrote in The Times newspaper: "Rumours Bob Woolmer was murdered because he was harbouring information on match-fixing or an association with corrupt bookmakers can be dismissed unequivocally." "As the co-author of his autobiography and its planned sequel, for which a publisher had still to be found, I can state that he had no intention of writing or publicising any such detail in either this or his book on coaching and sports science, which will be published in June." "He had no knowledge of Cronje's involvement in match-fixing during his time as coach of South Africa. If there there h...

Another death at the World Cup

Former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died of a suspected heart attack on Wednesday (21st March), the second fatality in four days at the World Cup. Bob Woolmer died in hospital on Sunday (18th March) after being found unconscious in his hotel room in Kingston. In the meanwhile, there are reports that Soctland Yard will investigate the death of Bob Woolmer. The Daily Telegraph (AUS) report goes on to say: Woolmer, 58, had been found in a pool of blood with vomit and faeces in his bathroom in room 375 on the 12th floor of the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston. First pictures of the deceased coach appear to show cuts to his ear and eyebrow. Cricketworldcuplatest.com reports: With Jamaican police terming Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer’s death as suspicious, several Pakistani bookies who have gone to the West Indies for the World Cup are likely to come under investigators’ scrutiny. The bookies have been involved in match-fixing in the past. According to cricket circles in Pakistan, the mo...