Residents snapped up emergency supplies and tourists crowded Caribbean airports on Saturday as Hurricane Dean bore down on Jamaica and the Cayman Islands and threatened to pound Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a rare category-five storm. It had already hit the eastern Caribbean, where it killed at least three people.
Former Pakistani cricket coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered but died of natural causes, Jamaican police said on Tuesday. Jamaica Constabulary Force Commissioner Lucius Thomas also ruled out match-fixing in relation to Woolmer’s death during the World Cup tournament in the Caribbean.
Jamaican police said they are analysing new information in the death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer but declined to address reports that he was not murdered and died of natural causes. Police investigators now apparently believe the 58-year-old died of heart failure.
Jamaican police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said the Bob Woolmer case is being investigated as a murder despite reports the Pakistan cricket coach died of a heart attack. ”As I have said from day one, we will be keeping an open mind and looking at all angles. Please give us more time,” Shields told the Jamaica Observer.
The body of Bob Woolmer, the late coach of Pakistan’s cricket team, began its long trip home from Jamaica on Thursday and is expected to arrive in South Africa by Sunday, police said. Woolmer (58) was found dead in his Kingston hotel room on March 18, the day after Pakistan had crashed out of the World Cup in an upset loss to Ireland. Police ruled his death a murder.
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New Zealand’s Stephen Fleming announced his resignation as captain of his country’s one-day team after the 81-run defeat by Sri Lanka in the World Cup semifinals on Tuesday. But Fleming said he wants to continue playing in the side and stay in charge of the Test team.
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Sri Lanka reached the World Cup final on Tuesday after Muttiah Muralitharan took four wickets to prompt a collapse by New Zealand and earn an 81-run victory for his country. New Zealand were on course to challenge Sri Lanka’s 289-5 wickets in the semifinal at Sabina Park, but lost seven key wickets for 44 runs to slump from 105-2 to 149-9.
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After four World Cup semifinal defeats, New Zealand finally think they are worthy of a place in the final. Stephen Fleming’s Black Caps face Sri Lanka at Sabina Park on Tuesday with the renewed confidence that comes with the knowledge that they beat Australia 3-0 in a one-day series near the end of February.
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The body of slain Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer was released by a coroner and will be returned to his South African homeland. In the meantime, a coroner’s inquest scheduled to begin on Monday was postponed indefinitely because of undisclosed developments in the case.
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Former New Zealand captain John Wright believes it would be a mistake to write off the Black Caps’ World Cup chances, despite their crushing defeat to Australia. Stephen Fleming’s men crashed to a 215-run defeat to the defending champions in their last Super Eights match on Friday.
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An inquest into the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the World Cup scheduled to start on Monday has been postponed because of ”recent and significant developments” in the case. Woolmer was found lifeless in his Kingston hotel room on March 18 and later pronounced dead in hospital.
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Jamaican police investigating the killing of Pakistan’s coach at the Cricket World Cup have received results of toxicology tests but released no information about the findings on Saturday. ”We have received the toxicology report but we’re not going to go public with it right now,” Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields told reporters.
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Two Pakistani detectives are helping investigate the mysterious murder of the country’s World Cup cricket coach after Jamaican police failed to make a breakthrough more than three weeks later. The investigators arrived in Kingston on Monday to help solve the murder of Bob Woolmer.
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Four Scotland Yard detectives and two forensic experts from Interpol have arrived in Jamaica to help investigate the killing of Pakistan’s World Cup cricket coach after police turned up no suspects or motives. The Scotland Yard detectives, including a senior murder investigator, were briefed on Tuesday and will be reviewing security-camera footage.
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Detectives leading the Bob Woolmer murder inquiry said on Monday they are studying the possibility that poison was used to incapacitate the burly Pakistan cricket coach before he was strangled. Jamaican police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said detectives were exploring whether the powerfully built Woolmer was drugged before being murdered.
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Detectives probing the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer said on Wednesday that better-than-anticipated security video footage could provide vital clues in the hunt for his killer. A painstaking operation to transfer hours of footage from well-worn VHS tape into a digital format has been completed, and early results were promising
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Potential witnesses into the murder of cricket coach Bob Woolmer have either left Jamaica or not come forward. Security video shows just a sliver of the crime scene. And wild rumours seem in greater supply than facts. Investigators have announced no arrests or breakthroughs — raising questions of whether the investigation trail has gone cold.
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Detectives probing the murder of cricket coach Bob Woolmer said investigators were nowhere near identifying suspects as Pakistan’s shell-shocked team prepared to head home on Tuesday. Police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said reports suggesting that detectives were focusing attention on three Pakistani fans who left Jamaica soon after Woolmer’s murder were premature.
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Jamaican police were still looking at match-fixing on Monday as a possible motive for the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer but have found no reference to it on his computer. The cricket world has been rife with speculation that the strangulation of one of the world’s best known cricket coaches involved cheating in matches.
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A week after the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer, Jamaican police sifted through security video for clues on Sunday. They denied any knowledge of a row reported in media involving Pakistani players and coaches after a shocking World Cup loss to Ireland.
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Pakistan’s cricketers were expected to fly home from the World Cup later on Saturday with police denying rumours that arrests had been made over the murder of their coach Bob Woolmer. Two Pakistani team officials were staying behind in Jamaica when the team departed, primarily to deal with issues surrounding Woolmer, said Jamaica deputy police commissioner Mark Shields.
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Shivnarine Chanderpaul struck an impressive unbeaten century as World Cup hosts West Indies beat surprise package Ireland by eight wickets in the final Group D match at Sabina Park on Friday. Ireland made 183 for eight in 48 overs after rain stopped play and under the Duckworth-Lewis rules West Indies were set a target of 190.
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Pakistan’s cricket coach Bob Woolmer was strangled in his hotel room after the team’s shocking World Cup loss to Ireland and police are investigating it as murder. ”The official report from the pathologist states that Mr Woolmer’s death was due to asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation,” said police commissioner Lucius Thomas said in a statement.
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Pakistan’s World Cup players were being questioned on Thursday as the investigation into the death of Bob Woolmer became embroiled in a fevered round of speculation and denial. The questioning comes on the same day that two Jamaican newspapers claimed that 58-year-old Woolmer, who died on Sunday, had been strangled.
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Former Irish Cricket Union president Robert Kerr died of a suspected heart attack in Jamaica on Wednesday, the second fatality in four days at the Cricket World Cup. Irish assistant coach Matt Dwyer said Kerr (68) died ”from what we believe was a heart attack”.
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Dreadlocked Zimbabwe players have been ordered to cut off their flowing locks, it was reported on Wednesday. The Zimbabwe Cricket Union keen to improve its poor reputation, told at least three members of the squad — Tawanda Mupariwa, Keith Dabengwa and Stuart Matsinkenyeri — to conform with the ruling.
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The death of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer is being treated as ”suspicious”, Jamaica’s police Deputy Commissioner Mark Shields said on Tuesday. Woolmer (58) was found unconscious in his hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday morning and was pronounced dead after being transferred to hospital.
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=cwc_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/300732/Icon_CWC.gif" align=left border=0></a>West Indies became the second side to book a place in the Super Eight quarterfinals of the World Cup after beating Zimbabwe by six wickets in their Group D match in Kingston on Monday. Chasing 203 runs from their allocation of 50 overs, West Indies struck gold with 13 balls to spare when captain Brian Lara lofted Elton Chigumbura over wide long-on for a six.
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World Cup cricketers attempt to get back to competitive business on Monday, 24 hours after the tournament was rocked by the death of Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer and an England drinking scandal. India are aiming to bounce back from their surprise defeat to Bangladesh while hosts West Indies could book their place in the next stage of the competition.
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Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died in hospital on Sunday after being found unconscious in his hotel room, the team announced. Woolmer (58), a former England Test batsman and coach of South Africa, had seen his team crash out of the World Cup on Saturday after a shock group-D defeat by Ireland at Sabina Park.
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Ireland gave their countrymen a St Patrick’s Day to remember when they clinched a sensational three-wicket victory over Pakistan to send the former champions crashing out of the Cricket World Cup at Sabina Park on Saturday in Jamaica. Chasing a revised target of 128 from 47 overs, Ireland held their nerve to hit the jackpot.
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Zimbabwe and Ireland played to a thrilling tie in a tense finish to their World Cup Group D match at Sabina Park in Kingston on Thursday. Opener Jeremy Bray carried his bat for an undefeated 115 off 137 balls, his second one-day international hundred, to give Ireland a sniff of a chance.