Thursday, March 22, 2007

Bob Woolmer

The circumstances surrounding Bob Woolmer's death have been becoming stranger by the day. Today, we finally found out what we were all dreading from the start: Bob Woolmer was murdered. This world cup is now being played under a cloud of suspicion and mistrust. As Donald Rumsfeld, the world's greatest cricketing expert, said:
As we know,
There are known knowns.
There are things we know we know.
We also know
There are known unknowns.
That is to say
We know there are some things
We do not know.
But there are also unknown unknowns,
The ones we don't know
We don't know.
We are well and truly in the "unknown unknowns" part of this saga and there seems to be no end in sight. This saga will have a profound effect on cricket in general and Pakistan cricket in particular.

We still don't know who killed him, we don't know why they killed him and till today we didn't even know he was murdered. Needless to say, speculation in the last few days had been rife about the cause of death and who, if any, was responsible for it. Media blamed the crazy fans and then media blamed the media. That done, people suddenly realized that cricket was just a game and that there are a lot of fans who don't/can't appreciate the intricacies of the game. All correct to a certain extent.

Too much bloviating and very little insight has been achieved to date. Unfortunately, we don't have any insight to provide you, my dear readers. We are just the court jester pointing out the absurdities. A better person will come along to explain this. Trust us. We know things. Any time now. She/He is right around the corner.

And while you are waiting, you might as well watch Inzi's last walk back to the pavilion.

3 comments:

Unknown said...

What is WRONG with these people? None of the teams that played today - India, Sri Lanka, Ireland, Windies - showed even the slightest sign that the game and world cup now involves a murder investigation.
Correct me if I am wrong but I am not aware that the teams(barring pakistan) observed a two minute silence nor wore even a friggin' black band to remind their crazy fans that, beneath all the jeers and cheers, a decent man had been murdered. Nobody on the field showed any signs of protest that the evil influences upon which this game has befallen. As if these walking billboards wore a black band, they might obscure some company logo. The games today were business as usual. Have things got so rotten?

Mephistopheles said...

To be fair, All the teams observed two minute silence the first match they played after Woolmer's death. Check out the photos of the India vs Bermuda match. You will see black arm bands and there was also a photo of the two teams standing in silence.

I was just reading a report which said Rs. 10,000 crore was bet on the India-SL match. WOW!

Unknown said...

I spoke too soon...my bad.
Yes, they showed some tokens of grief.
Rs 10,000 crore...isn't that 2 billion USD?
Are you sure or did you read it in Times of India ?