Pakistan Coach Bob Woolmer Dead
PAKISTAN coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital overnight after being found unconscious on the floor of his vomit-spattered hotel room at the World Cup in the Caribbean.
Pakistan was knocked out of the World Cup yesterday (AEDT) after a shock three-wicket defeat to Ireland, and Pakistan captain, stricken with grief over Woolmer, announced his retirement from the limited-overs game this morning.
Woolmer was last seen in public when he addressed the post-match media conference at the Sabina Park ground.
Ironically, he talked of the stresses of the coaching job.
"Doing it internationally, it takes a toll on you - the endless travelling and the non-stop living out of hotels," he said.
Woolmer's son Russell said the stress of coaching a cricket-ccrazy country was perhaps a factor.
"We've been speaking to the doctors and they think it is either stress or a heart attack," Russell Woolmer told South African radio in Cape Town.
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2 comments:
As far as I am concerned, he didn't die of stress or heart attack 'til that is proven. There is too much at stake in World Cup as far as India--facing an early exit at this point in time--and Pakistan--already out of the tournament--are concerned and nothing can be ruled out in Bob Woolmer's death.
Yeah, I don't understand how they can say stress when they found vomit everywhere. Sounds like either an overdose or he was poisoned
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