Woolmer’s Jury in Jamaica has recorded an open verdict on the suspicious death of former Pakistan’s coach Bob Woolmer. The jury decided this as there wasn’t sufficient evidence of either natural causes or a criminal act. The jury consisting of eleven members began the verdict last week with five weeks of evidence which received instructions from Patrick Murphy before deciding that they were unable to make a decision. Originally Patrick Murphy told the jurors about the outcomes, a week ago as the jurors began to consider if Woolmer’s death was due to natural causes, suicide, murder, accident or a voluntary manslaughter. After 26 days of testimony from 57 witnesses, the verdict came out and the local police had to close their case.
The Jamaican deputy police said that they have no intensions to go for any further investigations on this case. He also added that, this was one of the largest investigations in recent years and it has always been confident that Bob Woolmer died of natural causes. The Jamaican police had interviewed nearly 400 people, pursued 500 lines of inquiry and collected statements from 250 witnesses.
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The Patterson committee is requesting the Governance of West Indies along with the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) to lobby the local government to include cricket in every school’s curriculum. The effort is been taken by the former Jamaican Prime Minister, P.J Patterson, Dr. Ian McDonald and Sir Alister McIntyre who have advised the WICB to take some serious efforts to introduce cricket to young people. Patterson’s committee wants WICB to intensify their efforts to encourage and promote cricket. The committee also added that in early 20th century sports, mainly cricket was the most important part of the Victorian education system. And cricket has to be introduced into clubs and encourage capable secondary school players to join the club when they quit schooling.
Pakistan’s cricket team reached India this week. Captain Shoaib Malik and his team mates were escorted out of the Delhi Airport in the midst of tight security after landing for the 42 days tour. Pakistan, who won a test series in India in 1986, is now eager to play five one-day internationals from Monday followed by three test matches.
Both the teams have toured each other’s country once in a year since 2004 when India went on a visit to Pakistan after a 14-year break due to political tensions between the two countries.
Siddons will officially take up his coaching task on Nov. 19 to make cricket’s lowest-ranked test nation a steadier team. Jamie Siddons’ first series will be this December when Bangladesh will visit New Zealand to take part in two tests and three one-day matches. Siddons said that one of his goals will be to make Bangladesh performance consistent and push the players to progress every day.
