[FostersExport]

This is pretty insane. I thought the fact he died right after a shock loss was suspicious, but didn't really think that anyone would kill a man over a cricket match. And I still don't think a man would kill himself over a cricket match, certainly not this soon after the event (depression doesn't just jump up in an hour).

[GretchenM]

[Roy Tucker]

It just isn't cricket. Or is it?

[sukhoi-30mki]

Hard to say actually-the fact is that the Subcontinental mafia has very extensive interests in cricket,amongst other things.If the matches which Pakistan lost were "fixed"-then Woolmer may have threatened to spill the beans.Would have made sense bump him off.The hard reality is that some current player/officials of the Pakistani side have had previous allegations of match-fixing raised against them incl. the captain Inzamam Ul Haq,Mushtaq Ahmed.

[BaBaStooey]

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Cricket is not soccer/football. It is a gentleman's game. Even though the country involved is Pakistan, I cannot believe that something suspicious is happening.

I do however feel that these coaches and players are put under enormous pressure and stress, travelling around the world nearly all year long playing high profile international matches, and in the case of places like India and Pakistan, find yourself being burned in effigy or called out by people in the government after a heartbreaking loss.

I have read that Bob wasn't feeling well for a few days leading up to this, that he may have had a diabetic condition, and the stress of losing and being eliminated certainly did not help. Perhaps it was something he thought wasn't serious and didn't seek any treatment for, and turned out to be deadly serious.

If he had been poisoned, or if some other shenanigans had gone on, I think the autopsy would have revealed that by now.