MURDER IN PARADISE!!!
Today we easilly beat Canada in an average performance.
But get this …
Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach died in his hotel room on Sunday. We have heard all sorts of crazy rumours all week but it didn’t seem apropriate to comment on someones death on a blog based on rumour and speculation. Tonight the local cops held a press conference and said that it was a full on murder investigation and that he was STRANGLED!!! This is massive. Not only have we witnessed the biggest cricketing upset of all time but the coach of the upset team has been strangled to death in his hotel room!!!
The island rumour mill has been going crazy and it has been said that the whole Pakistan team has been finger printed and no Pakistani nationals are aloud to leave the island!
The suspects
So far the local police seem to be struggling with the investigation. It took almost a week to figue out that the broken bone in the neck and the bruises might mean Bob was strangled. They have even asked the person who did it to give themselves up. Which to my mind seems a little naive.
To help the local police with their clusoesque investigations I have it narrowed down to three groups of likely suspects.
The Pakistani team and management are suspect group number one. They are staying at the same hotel so they have access but probabibly not the motive. Still I am not ruling out a “Murder on the Orient Express” style group effort at thsi early stage.
The second possible group are the shadowy bookies who have been bribing players and fixing matches for years. Several teams and players have been implicated but few have been convicted. There have even been a couple of players suspended or banned for life as was the case for Hanse Cronje the South African captain who took money to underperform in a match in India. He later died in a suspicious plane crash. It seems unlikely that the bookies killed Bob for not making the Super 8 round since this is sport and no one can promise to win all the time. But there is a rumour that Bob was half way through writing a book and that there may have been some explosive facts in there about match fixing that maybe some people didn’t want known. And what better time to knock him off than when Pakistan catastrophically fail to progress out of their pool at the World Cup and loads of angry fans to point the finger of blame at?
The final and most likely group of suspects are the fans who must have spent thousands of Pakistani Rupees to come to the world cup.
