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Pakistan coach Woolmer dead

* 58yo coach found unconscious
* Could not be revived at hospital
* Team, management said to be 'shocked'

PAKISTAN cricket coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital on Sunday after being found unconscious on the floor of his hotel room.

Woolmer was 58 years old.

P.J. Mir, Pakistan's media manager, told TV channel ARYONE from the West Indies: "Bob Woolmer has passed away. I am just speaking from the hospital and all the team management is also at the hospital.

"Doctors have pronounced Bob Woolmer dead. Bob Woolmer has passed away and it is very shocking news to all of the team and the team mamangement," he said.

"Bob's family and wife were informed by the team management about Bob's condition when he was brought to hospital," said Mr Mir. No other details were available.

Pakistan were knocked out of the World Cup on Saturday after a shock three-wicket defeat to Ireland.

geez...i hope nothing more comes of this and it was just purely natures way.

Dreadful news.
Puts the loss to Ireland in perspective (I hope).
RIP

matt wrote:Dreadful news.
Puts the loss to Ireland in perspective (I hope).
RIP

It should but unfortunately for a lot of people the loss to Ireland would have been worse news.

Guys Ive removed the posts that referred to "foul play" of some sort. Let's wait until the authorities finish their queries before make allegations like that, there is no indication of foul play as yet.
Cheers.

Wedgie wrote:Guys Ive removed the posts that referred to "foul play" of some sort. Let's wait until the authorities finish their queries before make allegations like that, there is no indication of foul play as yet.
Cheers.

Well done Wedgie. I was very concerned listening to SEN this morning that there seem to be an inference that he passed away for reasons other than natural causes, but then they went on to say they had no details of his death. I found this to be extremely irresponsible reporting, putting ideas into peoples' heads without the evidence to support it. However, I've come to expect that sort of thing from the media these days.

Adelaide Hawk wrote:

Wedgie wrote:Guys Ive removed the posts that referred to "foul play" of some sort. Let's wait until the authorities finish their queries before make allegations like that, there is no indication of foul play as yet.
Cheers.

Well done Wedgie. I was very concerned listening to SEN this morning that there seem to be an inference that he passed away for reasons other than natural causes, but then they went on to say they had no details of his death. I found this to be extremely irresponsible reporting, putting ideas into peoples' heads without the evidence to support it. However, I've come to expect that sort of thing from the media these days.

Very sad to think that those thoughts came up in the first place !!!

Of course many people will wonder whether the death was from natural causes or not, given that people were burning effigies of him at the time of his death.

Those countries will burn effigies of anyone for the even the silliest of reasons - they'd burn an effigy of their own mother if she didn't put their socks in the right draw!

India's Mahendra Dhoni suffered the same as well. Indian supporters trashed his house (still being built) and burnt effigies of him because he got out for a duck against Bangladesh!!

blink wrote:Those countries will burn effigies of anyone for the even the silliest of reasons - they'd burn an effigy of their own mother if she didn't put their socks in the right draw!

India's Mahendra Dhoni suffered the same as well. Indian supporters trashed his house (still being built) and burnt effigies of him because he got out for a duck against Bangladesh!!

It would make you proud to represent your country wouldn't it

Wedgie wrote:Guys Ive removed the posts that referred to "foul play" of some sort. Let's wait until the authorities finish their queries before make allegations like that, there is no indication of foul play as yet.
Cheers.

Shades of Andres Escobar's 'own goal' versus the U.S.A. thus knocking Colombia out of the 1996 FIFA World Cup?

94 World Cup but i see what you're saying.. this is going too far.. angry mobs smashing players houses and chanting for them to die is ******* stupid

Sorry, I got the year wrong!
But looking at the dodgy past history of the gambling community in the Sub-Continent...
It kinda makes you suspicious doesn't it?

For all those that have survived the big one...?

Never have it outside Australia....! Including Tasmania....!

And don't ever wait for the ambulance...!

Get to hospital or you will die...!

Get the hiccups there Dog_ger?
When the Pakistani player were told it might have been a heart attack, they were shocked.
"What's a heart?" they all asked in unison.

I'm not doubting Bob Woolmer's ability, but I heard a so called radio 'sports guru' compare Bob Woolmer to Andrew Flintoff, albeit prefacing it with we didn't see the best of him because he played for Packer and on a rebel England tour. But still....pretty long bow to draw.

Mr66 wrote:Get the hiccups there Dog_ger?
When the Pakistani player were told it might have been a heart attack, they were shocked.
"What's a heart?" they all asked in unison.

rating 8-3 classic

Dog_ger wrote:For all those that have survived the big one...?

Never have it outside Australia....! Including Tasmania....!

And don't ever wait for the ambulance...!

Get to hospital or you will die...!

Woah easy on the posts there... my grandpa survived a heart attack in Tasmania a few years ago so their health unit is top notch !

Reports say marks were found on coach's neck

Woolmer's death 'suspicious' - police

Cricinfo staff

March 21, 2007



Mystery surrounds the death of Bob Woolmer © Getty Images



Jamaican police are now treating Bob Woolmer's death as suspicious, the chief investigator told a news conference. "We have informed Woolmer's family and we are in contact with all parties concerned," Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of police, said.

"After further discussions with the medical team and our colleagues we are now treating the death as suspicious. We have reviewed the circumstances and it would be inappropriate to say anything now. We are waiting for the pathologist's reports."

Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports suggest marks were discovered on the Pakistan coach's neck. Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room on Sunday and pronounced dead shortly after at a Jamaica hospital.

Woolmer's family said after speaking to doctors they expected his death came from a stress-related heart attack. An autopsy completed on Tuesday was inconclusive, but investigators were waiting for the results of toxicology tests to see if they helped determine the cause.

More to follow

Woolmer death deemed 'suspicious'

From correspondents in Kingston, Jamaica

March 21, 2007 THE death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is being treated as suspicious, a Pakistan team spokesman said today.

"The police suspect that Woolmer may have been murdered," Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) spokesman Pervez Mir told AFP.

"They have started an investigation." A joint Jamaican police force and PCB press conference is being held.