M G Harish

Monday, March 19, 2007

Bob Woolmer Dead - The Price of Passion

I was about to push myself on to the bed, before which I visited CricInfo for the last time in day to get news about the World Cup matches. Instead of the scores, there lied the headline Bob Woolmer collapses and dies. Just about three hours ago, I had read that he was found unconscious in team hotel and was admitted to a hostpital; and now, he is dead. I am stunned. Oh My God! He has been the best mentor ever since he became the coach of South African cricket team. All fingers are not alike, and all days can't be same. Pakistan lost to Ireland yesterday, and were thrown out of the World Cup. But was that so depressing for the former English cricketer? Couldn't the Pakistan coach withstand this shock?


Bob Woolmer: Master of masters

I am none to answer all these questions, but the truth remains the same, Bob Woolmer is dead. A person who developed South Africa into a strong team as it is today, an expert computer analyst who gave a new dimension to the position of a coach, shouldn't have met his death in such a way. He was very much passionate about the game, and unfortunately, he paid the price. I don't know the details about his death yet, but there is no doubt that the cricket world lost a scholar of cricket. He is not only a person belonging to England. He was born in India, played for England, coached South Africa and Pakistan, and died in West Indies.

Links:
Bob Woolmer's death stuns cricket world
He gave his life to cricket and died for it

The Moon is causing Solar Eclipse here in my place in the morning tomorrow, but the death of Bob Woolmer has already caused eclipse to the whole cricket world.

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Now there is lot of controversy behind the death of Woolmer. Truth yet to come...