Death of a coach: Pakistan's moral crisis

By John Cheeran
Yes, there is more to the death of former Pakistan cricket team coach Bob Woolmer than meets the eye.
He had died a few hours after Pakistan lost their group game against a weak Ireland side in his hotel room and the adverse result had eliminated Pakistan from the 2007 World Cup.
On Tuesday night Jamaican police said they were treating the death of Woolmer as "suspicious", suggesting that their probe into the matter had changed focus and that they doubted that he had died of natural causes.
"Having met with the pathologist, other medical personnel and the investigators, there is now sufficient information to continue a full investigation of the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr Woolmer, which we are now treating as suspicious," Deputy Commissioner of Police Mark Shields told reporters at a hastily called news conference at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel in Kingston shortly after 9:30.
Asked whether he was suggesting that Woolmer was murdered, Shields said 'no'.
Now the question is if was not murdered, what exactly caused his death?
French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte would have had Pakistan in mind when he said nothing is impossible.
Many cricket watchers who are familiar with the murky history of match-fixing in the game point out that bookies might have had a hand in Pakistan’s loss to Ireland.
It may be possible that coach Woolmer himself had doubts about the commitment of some of his players and he may have paid by his life for knowing too much.
One thing is certain at this stage.
Woolmer’s death has again brought attention to Pakistan’s moral crisis within the cricket team, and with in the body politic.