Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
I guess this early exit makes sense now. There is no way the players would have been focussed on cricket after such a big loss had they moved on to the Super 8 round. Allah ki marzi.
did not look like they were really focused in the two matches that they have played. hopefully as atribute to their coach they would put forth a performance to remember..in a good way
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
Here is the Question? Is it
1.Heart attack
2.Suicide attack
3.Poison killing
murder
Well very sad news:(
akkhri keel bhi thuk gya taboot mein
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
I think we should play the match and honour him. Although I wont be surprised if few players refuse to play.
Refuse to play the match!
Why
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*Listening to the coverage on Indian TV channels, it appears as if they are laughing off at Pakistan rather than sad at Woolmer's death. *
Re: Bob Woolmer found unconscious in hotel room
this is the darkest day in the history of Pakistan cricket. Pakistan's defeat yesterday didn't make me cry but today I have tears in my eyes.
a good man has passed away - a man who worked hard at whatever he did.
rest in peace, Bob. we didn't treat you well. you deserved much better. and for that I am sorry. may your loved ones and family find peace too.
Amen to that! He was my favorite coach and will continue to be. Its rediculous the way he was treated but he was a real gentleman and got on with his job. thanks for all you have done bob. Condolences to his family.
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Refuse to play the match!
Why
too shattered to play the match. Can you blame them if they cannot gather enough to get on the field knowing the person who groomed so many of them has gone?
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
Here is the Question? Is it 1.Heart attack ** 2.Suicide attack** 3.Poison killing
Come on now. Suicide attack?!?! This isn't Fallujah or something.
Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, died in hospital in Jamaica…
Pakistan coach found in hotel room
Bob Woolmer’s death stuns cricket world
Cricinfo staff
March 18, 2007
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Bob Woolmer: found unconscious in his hotel room © Martin Williamson
Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, died in hospital in Jamaica on Sunday after being found unconscious on the floor of his World Cup hotel room earlier in the day. He was 58.
Pervez Mir, Pakistan’s media manager, said: "Bob Woolmer has passed away. I am speaking from the hospital and all the team management is also at the hospital. Doctors have pronounced him dead. Bob has passed away and it is very shocking news to all of the team and the team management.
“Bob’s family and wife were informed by the management about his condition when he was brought to hospital.”
Mir’s statement added that there would be a coroner’s inquest and, in keeping with Jamaican law, an autopsy to determine the cause of death.
Woolmer was found unconscious on his hotel-room floor at around 10.45am after team officials grew concerned that they had not seen him since the previous evening. An ambulance rushed him to Kingston University Hospital where he was pronounced dead a few hours later.
His death comes less than 24 hours after Pakistan were knocked out of the World Cup following their defeat by Ireland. After the match, Woolmer spoke of the pressures of coaching. “Doing it internationally, it takes a toll on you,” he said. “The endless travelling and the non-stop living out of hotels.”
“I am deeply hurt and cannot tell you how it is going to affect me,” Woolmer told AFP late on Saturday after the Ireland defeat, saying he would answer more questions on email later in the week
source: http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/285953.html
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
Come on now. Suicide attack?!?! This isn't Fallujah or something.
People are just shattered in grief, in such a condition errors like this can happen.
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
too shattered to play the match. Can you blame them if they cannot gather enough to get on the field knowing the person who groomed so many of them has gone?
I agree, if we the fans are so down and depressed, imagine what our players will be going thru having spent so much time with Bob. They will be devastated. :(
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*Listening to the coverage on Indian TV channels, it appears as if they are laughing off at Pakistan rather than sad at Woolmer's death. *
I dunno about the other channels, but I've been following the news coverage on NDTV and they've been very reverential.... they've aired tributes to him as well as to his innovative coaching techniques.
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
*Listening to the coverage on Indian TV channels, it appears as if they are laughing off at Pakistan rather than sad at Woolmer's death. *
You can always find out what you want to find out. what you are seeing on TV is ust reflection of your mindset.I didnot notice any one taking pleasure out of his death.
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
very sad news.
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
Woolmer's services will always be remembered. We were never consistent and during two years of his reign, we were consistently successful. It is sad that it all went downhill from england tour. But so many players owed him their success (Malik, Afridi, Younis, Yousuf, Inzi, Asif, Rana, Akmal.....)
Man, this weekend has just been unbelievably sad.
You will be missed Bob! Terribly...
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Cause of death has not yet been revealed, so hold the wild theories for a moment.
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Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
What are the prospects of another foreign coach working for Pakistan?
Re: Bob Woolmer passes away at age 58
You can always find out what you want to find out. what you are seeing on TV is ust reflection of your mindset.I didnot notice any one taking pleasure out of his death.
Listening to aajtak and Zee, they keep on mentionaing the problems Bob had with Dope scandal, with Akhtar and Pakistan's exit from WC. Aajtak is running news "patti" that suicide is suspected.
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that is what is needed. The physical conditioning, work ethic and discipline that is needed requires a foreign coach. talent of players, and technical expertise of coach is a pre requisite though.
ps- with our former spoil sports whining about bob for ages, i thnk PCB will be under pressure to have a local coach. which would be just as dymb as sven's departure in england football saw the FA ushering in the current joker...
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The pressure of the job !
Intresting excerpt from Cricinfo :
It was as depressing as it was predictable. Even before Bangladesh had scored the 192 runs required to defeat India at Queen’s Park Oval, Cricinfo had received feedback from so-called fans who wished to burn Dravid’s house. A few hours later, Pakistani “fans” were out in the streets of Multan demanding that Inzamam-ul-Haq and Bob Woolmer be arrested.
In such a climate, it should surprise no one when the pressure proves too much to take. While chatting to Greg Chappell recently, I had asked him if he’d have fancied playing cricket in this day and age and whether he thought the moderns faced as much pressure from the game as his generation had. “I’m sure they enjoy it, but it’s more of a job now than it ever was,” he said. “And it takes a toll on you, the relentless touring and the hectic schedules.”
Chappell knows more than most about the volatile nature of the subcontinent’s cricket-watching public. Recently, a deranged fan assaulted him when the team arrived for a match in Cuttack, and though he chose not to make a song and dance of it, it was clear that physical danger was far more than he’d bargained for when he took the job.
Chappell was understandably subdued when Cricinfo talked to him following Woolmer’s sad demise. “It’s very sad news,” he said, having played against Woolmer in a few Ashes Test in the 1970s. 'It’s a stressful job at the best of times. There’s a great deal of emotional involvement. You have to be passionate about it if you want to do the job well."
There are many high-profile coaching jobs in sport - the Real Madrid hot-seat in football and the management of the New York Yankees to name just two, but none carries with it quite the pressure of coaching a subcontinental cricket team. Chappell is in no doubt that the stakes are far higher in South Asia than they are elsewhere. “I’d say so. It’s definitely more under the spotlight than in other countries.
'The expectations are far higher. 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 after what is after all only a game.”
For the full column : http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/285948.html