Was it a contract killing, a crime of sporting passion or a robbery gone wrong?
“As soon as he was found to be dying or dead, the team was called,” said Shields. As attempts were made to resuscitate Woolmer, his body was dragged into the bedroom. He was taken to a nearby hospital by ambulance where he was pronounced dead. Cricket, to many people the most perplexing of games, suddenly faced an unprecedented mystery. The previous day Woolmer’s team had suffered one of the greatest upsets in international cricket by losing to Ireland, a team of part-time players. The defeat blew Pakistan, ranked as the fourth best team in the world, out of the World Cup. Within hours angry fans had spilt out on to the streets in Pakistan and burnt the coach’s effigy, chanting “Death to Bob Woolmer”. Could Woolmer really have been killed? At first it seemed preposterous. But three days later the police revealed that they were treating his death as “suspicious”. Within hours rumours were circulating — not of a revenge killing by enraged fans, but of bribery, corruption, match-fixing an
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