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...cricket died at 3 a.m. today. The funeral will be held on March 21 after the match against Zimbabwe, and Maulana Inzamam-ul Haq Multani will lead the prayers." SMS MESSAGE circulated widely in Pakistan after the country's powerful cricket team was defeated by Ireland during the Cricket World Cup in Jamaica. Inzamam-ul Haq, captain of Pakistan's team, stepped down following the shock loss, hours after the team's head coach, Bob Woolmer, died of unknown causes-a death Jamaican police said they were treating as "suspicious...
...Cricket is often likened to a religion in South Asia, and just as people sometimes die - or are killed - for religion, the noblest of sports now seems to have claimed a victim of its own. Last Sunday, Pakistan's coach, the 58-year-old Englishman Bob Woolmer, was found dead in his Jamaica hotel room hours after his highly ranked team had been eliminated from cricket's World Cup by rank outsiders Ireland...
...attributed his death to stress over the humiliating result. Perhaps, went the speculation, Woolmer, who played 19 tests for England in the 1970s and '80s and was widely respected as an astute and passionate coach, had taken his own life. Or perhaps the grinding stress of coaching one of cricket's most mercurial teams and dealing with its passionate and insanely demanding fans had finally gotten to him. Woolmer, said former South African bowling great Alan Donald, "gave his life to cricket and probably paid...
...Woolmer's room during the hours between his team's defeat and the discovery of his body remains a mystery that may never be solved. But whether it was caused by stress, suicide or even murder, the tragedy is a brutal reminder that South Asia's wonderful passion for cricket has an ugly and dangerous flipside. Within hours of their team's defeat last weekend, angry fans in Pakistan demanded that the players and their coach be arrested or worse. In India, meanwhile, fans upset that their team had lost to newcomers Bangladesh burned the players in effigy, and trashed...
...wrath of the fans is a constant danger on the Indian subcontinent. One deranged cricket lover who believed the Indian team should include more players from his corner of the country recently assaulted national coach Greg Chappell as the Australian legend boarded the team bus. "The expectations are far higher [in the subcontinent]," Chappell told an Indian reporter this week after hearing the news of Woolmer's death. "But in the light of this tragic event, I think we need to take pause and make sure that we don't get too stressed about what is, after all, only...