Questions remain over match-fixing
Bob Woolmer’s death might now have been declared the result of natural causes but that should not be used by the ICC as proof positive there is no match-fixing in cricket, according to an editorial in The New Zealand Herald .
Brydon Coverdale
25-Feb-2013
Bob Woolmer’s death might now have been declared the result of natural causes but that should not be used by the ICC as proof positive there is no match-fixing in cricket, according to an editorial in The New Zealand Herald.
Cricket's governors adopted a somewhat haughty tone on learning Jamaican police had concluded Pakistani coach Bob Woolmer was not murdered, but died of natural causes. The death had resulted in the game being unnecessarily tarnished by bizarre theories of match-fixing, said Lord Condon, of the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit. This may have been so. But Lord Condon might ponder why people were so ready to put the worst-possible construction on Woolmer's death, and what that says about the state of cricket.
In The Age, Chloe Saltau speaks to Barry Richards, who says that Bob Woolmer’s family has been put through the wringer and heads should roll over the bungled investigation into Woolmer’s death.
Brydon Coverdale is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo. He tweets here