by Tan Copsey
Last week this blog featured a little post on political cricket. I delved, rather briefly, into the odd and slightly seamy underside of another global sporting tournament. Despite cataloguing a litany of bizarre and in some cases, downright suspicious goings on, including match fixing, suicide, mysterious global gambling syndicates, I could not have predicted the bizarre events of the last week.
In the wake of a very surprising defeat to Ireland and their ejection from the tournament, Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer died – or as the Guardian put it today ‘he was died’. The event is being treated as suspicious by police, though leaks in the investigation have led to the Jamaican Gleaner being less equivocal – suggesting that police are now treating the death as a homicide.
This has led to some rather fantastic speculation – including reports on DNA India that ex-Bombay mafia don ‘Dawood Ibrahim's betting racket could be involved’. Meanwhile it is still impossible to guess the full repercussions of these events. The fact that they happened at a time when Pakistan is in the midst of a serious political crisis doesn’t help though. Political cricket continues.
