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London, Mar 19 (ANI): Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer may have died of overdose of
prescription drugs and alcohol. However, investigations are still on to find
whether the overdose was accidental or planned, reported The Mirror. According
to Pakistan team officials, the former England Test player was diabetic and had
breathing problems during his sleep. Meanwhile, Woolmer’s wife Gill said her
husband was depressed over Pakistan’s three-wicket defeat by Ireland on
Saturday. “His job coaching there has been incredibly stressful,” the paper
quoted her as saying. Interestingly, a friend of the late cricketer said that
Woolmer had told him few days ago that he would be the last person to die of a
heart attack.
The 58-year-old coach was found unconscious in his hotel room on Sunday
morning and was immediately rushed to Kingston University Hospital, where he was
declared dead. Woolmer played first-class cricket for Kent in the United Kingdom
and Western Province and Natal in South Africa, as well as 19 Test matches and
six ODIs for England. A right-handed batsman, handy medium-pace bowler and
specialist short leg fieldsman, he scored 15,772 first-class runs, including 29
hundreds, and took 420 wickets and 239 catches. At the highest level he scored
1059 Test runs with three hundreds, all of them made against Australia. His
maiden Test hundred was also his highest score in that form of the game, 149 at
The Oval in 1975, and he made successive hundreds in the first two matches of
the 1977 Ashes series, at Lord’s and Old Trafford. (ANI)
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