A day after seeing his Pakistan side lose to Ireland, Bob Woolmer has died. Aggers has just broken the news during commmentary on the England v Canada game. Apparently he was found unconscious in his hotel room this morning and taken to hospital where his condition was "serious"; now he has gone. I can only hope that this brilliant, likeable man did not lose his life because of a silly game - in the sense that I kind of hope it was not the stress that caused a heart attack or something. I know that sounds a bit strange, but cricket is a game, a lovely, funny game: but it is a game and the pressure it creates is out of all proportion to its importance.
RIP Bob Woolmer.
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True of sport generally, perhaps?
To put your point in reverse, I bet Bob would have been happier dying thinking of cricket than dying thinking of something else.
I suppose when someone has given their all to a sport we feel their loss more poignantly.
Yes - unless he died because he was broken or stressed by the game. I still haven't heard any possible causes though I've read he was diabetic.
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