Pakistan world championships cricket coach murdered

[Bluebear]

Good heavens, can you imagine if this is related to a stupid game?

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KINGSTON, Jamaica - The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan's national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.

Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after his team's defeat to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day sealed Pakistan's ouster from the tournament....

"Because Bob was a large man, it would have taken some significant force to subdue him, but of course at this stage we do not know how many people were in the room," he told a news conference Thursday night. "It could be one or more people involved in this murder."

Woolmer's death prompted much speculation among followers of cricket, a sport that breaks for tea and makes baseball seem fast-paced. Despite its gentlemanly manner, the sport generates tremendous passion in Britain and its former colonies.

Protesters in several Indian cities, for instance, burned effigies of their national cricket players and destroyed portions of one player's half-built home after the team was beaten Sunday by Bangladesh.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_as/cricket_pakistan

[brettdale]

1. This is massive news

In this part of the world, match fixing has been a problem in circket for years, this guy was about to write a book about it.