Death of Pakistan's coach: World Cup Cricket

[malaise]

The death of Pakistan's coach following their early exit on Saturday does not look like natural causes.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/html/20070321T000000-0500_120684_OBS_WOOLMER_DEATH__SUSPICIOUS_.asp

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6473645.stm

[T_i_B]

1. I think this thread really does need kicking

Now that it has been confirmed that Woolmer was murdered. :scared:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6482981.stm

[stormymonday]

2. It looks as though he was murdered by someone he knew

which shockingly means that the killer is someone who at the very least is on the fringes of the world of cricket. I still find it difficult to believe that some sort of 'betting mafia' is behind the deed since the potential penalty for murder is so much greater than that for bribery and is also generally a lot easier to prove. Nonetheless match fixing is a lot more common in cricket and has been going on a lot longer than most people realise as I have pointed here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=191&topic_id=20769&mesg_id=20849

Whilst big money gambling and corruption may be more recent there is quite a bit of circumstantial evidence to suggest that the rigging of games has its origins not in Asia or South Africa but in the English county championship back in the 1970s and 1980s.

http://www.icc-cricket.com/corruption/condon_report.html

http://content-www.cricinfo.com/columns/content/story/280594.html

This is a fact that the TCCB and the ICC are keen to draw a veil over for fear of discrediting the game entirely in the eyes of the public and thereby risk losing all that lovely TV money.

[mduffy31]

3. They don't fuck around with their sports there

Here we just turn over cars and set things on fire.