Friday, March 23, 2007

Cricket. Game, set... MURDER!!!!!

Alternate title: Sticky wicket, wicked googly.... wicked wicket DEATH!!!!!

Good Lord. I thought peopel in central PA were rabid Steelers fans (hiya, Jeff, how's it goin'?).
Compared to this, they're just passive, apathetic quilting bee members.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070323/ap_on_re_as/cricket_pakistan

KINGSTON, Jamaica - The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan's national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.

Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after his team's defeat to Ireland on St. Patrick's Day sealed Pakistan's ouster from the tournament.

Mark Shields, the deputy police commissioner, said police were investigating if more than one person could have been involved.

I can't help but see the Jamaican police from the Beatles' HELP! when I read that last line.

"Because Bob was a large man, it would have taken some significant force to subdue him..."

Protesters in several Indian cities, for instance, burned effigies of their national cricket players and destroyed portions of one player's half-built home after the team was beaten Sunday by Bangladesh.

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