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.