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| Pakistan team not under suspicion |
| Pakistan's outgoing cricket boss says his country's players are not suspects in the murder of their coach Bob Woolmer.
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| PAKISTAN
, 24-March-2007
1:25:48 AM |
| Police in Jamaica on Thursday said that Woolmer, 58, was strangled. He was found unconscious in his hotel room Sunday and later pronounced dead in hospital, a day after the team's surprise loss to Ireland in the World Cup.
Dr. Nasim Ashraf, who tendered his resignation as chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board soon after the humiliating defeat, said on Friday the players were not facing any restrictions on their movements and would return home soon.
``The Bob Woolmer case is under investigation, but I want to make it clear that there is no suspicion on the Pakistani team,'' Ashraf said in Peshawar. ``That is the reason that Pakistan's team left Kingston, Jamaica, last night. And now the Pakistani team is in Montego Bay,'' he said. ``Our players are under severe stress and trauma and they will rest until tomorrow, and then they will come back to Pakistan,'' he added.
Ashraf said Jamaican police had interviewed all those who had contact with Woolmer, including West Indies skipper Brian Lara and manager Clive Lloyd, as the Pakistani and West Indies sides were at the same hotel at the time of his death.
Australia backs ICC
Australia, meanwhile, has backed the ICC decision to carry on with the World Cup. ``With the news from the Jamaican police, our thoughts at this time are very much with the Woolmer family,'' a spokesman for Cricket Australia said. Asked if Cricket Australia supported the decision to not abandon the tournament, he replied: ``Absolutely.''
Woolmer received more tributes from around the world. ``The news that Bob Woolmer was murdered has shattered us. It is a quite unexpected event which we cannot yet quite believe,'' Mahmudur Rahman, the chief executive of the Bangladesh Cricket Board, said.
Donald demurs
South African bowling great Allan Donald criticised the ICC decision however. ``I just don't know how this World Cup can continue under the shadow of what's happened.
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