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Sporting Witness: Death at the Cricket World Cup

Death at the Cricket World Cup

19/03/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Sporting Witness, Death at the Cricket World Cup

How the death of top coach Bob Woolmer threw cricket into turmoil in 2007.

In March 2007, Bob Woolmer, the English coach of the Pakistan cricket team, was found dead in his hotel room in Jamaica shortly after his side suffered a shock defeat at the Cricket World Cup. The Jamaican police launched a murder inquiry when an initial pathologist’s report suggested Woolmer had been strangled. Wild rumours spread around the tournament linking the death to match-fixing, but later forensic examinations indicated the causes of death were natural. The BBC cricket presenter Alison Mitchell talks to Mark Shields, the British detective who led the murder inquiry, and Bob Woolmer’s son, Dale Woolmer.

PHOTO: Bob Woolmer (Getty Images)

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