Editing Bob Woolmer

{{Short description|English cricketer (1948–2007)}}
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{{Infobox cricketer
|                name = Bob Woolmer
|               image = Bob_Woolmer.JPG
|             caption = Woolmer in December 1999
|             country = England
|            fullname = Robert Andrew Woolmer
|            nickname = Woollie, The-Bob
|          birth_date = {{Birth date|1948|5|14|df=yes}}
|         birth_place = [[Kanpur|Cawnpore]], [[United Provinces (1937-50)|United Provinces]], [[Dominion of India|India]]
|          death_date = {{Death date and age|2007|3|18|1948|5|14|df=yes}}
|        death_place = [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
|            heightft = 6
|          heightinch = 0
|             batting = Right-handed
|             bowling = Right-arm [[Seam bowling|medium]]
|                role = [[All-rounder]]
|              family = [[Clarence Woolmer]] (father)
|       international = true
|       testdebutdate = 31 July
|       testdebutyear = 1975
|    testdebutagainst = Australia
|             testcap = 463
|        lasttestdate = 2 July
|        lasttestyear = 1981
|     lasttestagainst = Australia
|        odidebutdate = 24 August
|        odidebutyear = 1972
|     odidebutagainst = Australia
|              odicap = 16
|         lastodidate = 28 August
|         lastodiyear = 1976
|      lastodiagainst = West Indies
|               club1 = [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]]
|               year1 = 1968–1984
|               club2 = [[Natal cricket team|Natal]]
|               year2 = {{nowrap|1973/74–1975/76}}
|               club3 = [[Western Province cricket team (South Africa)|Western Province]]
|               year3 = 1980/81
| coachclub1         = [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]]
| coachyear1         = 1994–1999
| coachclub2         = [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]]
| coachyear2         = 2004–2007
|             columns = 4
|             column1 = [[Test cricket|Tests]]
|            matches1 = 19
|               runs1 = 1,059
|            bat avg1 = 33.09
|           100s/50s1 = 3/2
|          top score1 = 149
|         deliveries1 = 546
|            wickets1 = 4
|           bowl avg1 = 74.75
|            fivefor1 = 0
|             tenfor1 = 0
|       best bowling1 = 1/8
|  catches/stumpings1 = 10/–
|             column2 = [[One Day International|ODI]]
|            matches2 = 6
|               runs2 = 21
|            bat avg2 = 5.25
|           100s/50s2 = 0/0
|          top score2 = 9
|         deliveries2 = 321
|            wickets2 = 9
|           bowl avg2 = 28.88
|            fivefor2 = 0
|             tenfor2 = 0
|       best bowling2 = 3/33
|  catches/stumpings2 = 3/–
|             column3 = [[First-class cricket|FC]]
|            matches3 = 350
|               runs3 = 15,772
|            bat avg3 = 33.55
|           100s/50s3 = 34/71
|          top score3 = 203
|         deliveries3 = 25,823
|            wickets3 = 420
|           bowl avg3 = 25.87
|            fivefor3 = 12
|             tenfor3 = 1
|       best bowling3 = 7/47
|  catches/stumpings3 = 239/1
|             column4 = [[List A cricket|LA]]
|            matches4 = 290
|               runs4 = 4,078
|            bat avg4 = 20.39
|           100s/50s4 = 1/17
|          top score4 = 112[[not out|*]]
|         deliveries4 = 13,473
|            wickets4 = 374
|           bowl avg4 = 20.64
|            fivefor4 = 3
|             tenfor4 = 0
|       best bowling4 = 6/9
|  catches/stumpings4 = 98/–
|                date = 22 August
|                year = 2007
|              source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/22520.html CricInfo
}}
'''Robert Andrew Woolmer''' (14 May 1948 – 18 March 2007) was an English cricket coach, [[cricketer]], and a [[Sportscaster|commentator]]. He played in 19 [[Test cricket|Test matches]] and six [[One Day International]]s for the [[England cricket team]] and later coached [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]], [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club|Warwickshire]] and [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]]. During his coaching career with South Africa, he led the team to being the winners of the [[1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy]], the only ICC title the country has won till date.

On 18 March 2007, Woolmer died suddenly in [[Jamaica]], just a few hours after the Pakistan team's unexpected elimination at the hands of [[Ireland Cricket team|Ireland]] in the [[2007 Cricket World Cup]]. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation into Woolmer's death. In November 2007, a jury in Jamaica recorded an open verdict on Woolmer's death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cricinfo.com/woolmer/content/story/322709.html |title=Woolmer jury delivers open verdict &#124; Cricket News &#124; Woolmer &#124; ESPN Cricinfo |publisher=Cricinfo.com |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref>

==Early life==
Woolmer was born in the Georgina McRobert Memorial Hospital across the road from the [[Green Park Stadium]] in [[Kanpur]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.icc-cricket.com/news/672788 |title=Born in one country, played for another |work=International Cricket Council |access-date=27 April 2018}}</ref> India on 14 May 1948. His father was the cricketer [[Clarence Woolmer]], who represented [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh|United Provinces]] (now [[Uttar Pradesh cricket team|Uttar Pradesh]]) in the [[Ranji Trophy]]. At the age of 10, Woolmer witnessed [[Hanif Mohammad]] scoring 499, setting a world record for the highest score in [[first-class cricket]].<ref name="Coincidence">{{cite web|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/603071.html |title=ESPNcricinfo XI: Coincidences in cricket &#124; Cricinfo Magazine |publisher=ESPN Cricinfo |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref> Some 35 years later, Woolmer, as coach of [[Warwickshire|Warwickshire County Cricket Club]], was watching when the county's batsman [[Brian Lara]] passed that mark, setting a new record of 501 [[not out]].<ref name="Coincidence"/>

Woolmer went to school in [[Kent]], first at [[Yardley Court]] in [[Tonbridge]] and then [[The Skinners' School]] in [[Royal Tunbridge Wells]]. When he was 15, [[Colin Page]], the coach and captain of the Kent second XI, converted him from an off-spinner to a medium pace bowler.

Woolmer's first job was as a sales representative for [[Imperial Chemical Industries|ICI]], and his first senior cricket was with the [[Tunbridge Wells Cricket Club]] and with Kent's second XI.

==Selection for Kent==
In 1968, at the age of 20, Woolmer joined the Kent cricket staff and made his championship debut against Essex. His ability to move the ball about at medium-pace was ideally suited to one-day cricket at which he became a specialist. He won his [[county cap]] in 1969. Woolmer began his coaching career in South Africa in 1970–71 at the age of 22 and by 1975, when he made his Test debut, he had become a teacher of [[physical education]] at Holmewood House prep school in Kent as well as running his own cricket school – at the time one of the youngest cricket school owners anywhere.

==Playing career==
Woolmer played English [[County Championship|county cricket]] for [[Kent County Cricket Club|Kent]], initially as an [[all-rounder]]. He graduated to [[Test cricket]] with [[England cricket team|England]] in 1975 again, at first, as an all-rounder, having taken a [[Hat-trick (cricket)|hat-trick]] for [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] against the touring [[Australian cricket team]] with his fast-medium bowling. But he was dropped after his first Test, only reappearing in the final match of the series at [[The Oval]] where he scored 149, batting at number five, then the slowest Test century for England against Australia.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1970S/1975/AUS_IN_ENG/AUS_ENG_T4_28AUG-03SEP1975.html |title=4th TEST: England v Australia at The Oval, 28 Aug-3 Sep 1975 |publisher=Uk.cricinfo.com |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref> Further batting success followed over the next two seasons, including two further centuries against Australia in 1977. Rarely for an Englishman since the Second World War, all his Test centuries were made against Australia.

Woolmer was also a regular in England [[One Day International|ODI]] cricket from 1972 to 1976. But Woolmer's international career stalled after he joined the [[World Series Cricket|World Series]] break-away group run by [[Kerry Packer]]. He continued to have success with Kent, helping them to win the [[County Championship]] and the [[Benson and Hedges Cup]] in 1978, winning the [[man of the match]] award in the final of the latter. But though he was recalled to the Test team for four matches in 1980 and 1981 after the World Series Cricket affair was over, he never recaptured the form of the mid-1970s. He also took part in the first [[South African rebel tours|rebel tour of South Africa]] of 1982, a move that effectively ended his international career.<ref name=cricobit>{{cite web|title=Woolmer : a creative and adventurous coach|date=18 March 2007|publisher=Cricinfo|url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/285940.html}}</ref>

==Coaching career==
Woolmer obtained his coaching qualification in 1968.<ref name=isait>{{cite news|title=Bob Woolmer – A Dream Coach |date=1 October 2006 |publisher=That's Cricket |url=http://thatscricket.oneindia.in/interviews/0110woolmer.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154847/http://thatscricket.oneindia.in/interviews/0110woolmer.html |archive-date=30 September 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref>

===In South Africa===
After retiring from first-class cricket in 1984, he emigrated to South Africa, where he coached cricket and [[Field hockey|hockey]] at high schools. He also became involved in the Avendale Cricket Club in Athlone, Cape Town. He preferred to join a 'coloured' club rather than a 'white' one in apartheid South Africa. He was an inspiration to Avendale and was instrumental in assisting the club to grow and be successful. Because of him, there is still an annual programme for a talented Avendale cricketer to spend a summer at [[Lord Wandsworth College]] in Hampshire.<ref name=woolmersite>{{cite web|title=About Bob |publisher=Bob Woolmer's website|url=http://www.bobwoolmer.com/Aboutbob.aspx}}</ref> Woolmer was the coach when South Africa won the [[1998 ICC KnockOut Trophy]], and in the same year the country won gold in the [[1998 Commonwealth Games]].

===In England===
He returned to England in 1987 to coach the second eleven at Kent.<ref name=isait /> He went on to coach the [[Warwickshire County Cricket Club]] in 1991, the side winning the [[Friends Provident Trophy|Natwest Trophy]] in 1993, and three out of four trophies contested the next year. He continued his success by leading Warwickshire to Natwest and County Championship success in 1995, before taking on the Post of South African National Coach.

Woolmer is thought to be the only person to have witnessed both [[Brian Lara]]'s innings of 501 not out against [[Durham County Cricket Club|Durham]] in 1994 and [[Hanif Mohammad]]'s 499 in [[Karachi]] in 1958.<ref>''[[Wisden Cricketers' Almanack|Wisden]]'' 1995, p. 17.</ref>

===Coaching methods===
Woolmer was known for his progressive coaching techniques. He is credited with having made the [[Batting (cricket)#Reverse_sweep|reverse sweep]] a more popular shot for [[batsman|batsmen]] in the 1990s,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2037875,00.html | work=The Guardian | location=London | title=Bob Woolmer | first=Paul | last=Weaver | date=20 March 2007 | access-date=26 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zeecric.com/fullstory.asp?nid=1528 |title=Latest Cricket News » Bob Woolmer, the 'computer coach' |publisher=Zeecric.com |access-date=2013-08-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110081428/http://www.zeecric.com/fullstory.asp?nid=1528 |archive-date=10 January 2016 |df=dmy-all }}</ref> as well as being one of the first to use computer analysis, and trying to adapt the knowledge of [[Goalkeeper (association football)|goalkeeper]]s to [[wicketkeeper]]s in cricket.<ref name="abc">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/sport/columns/200703/s1875129.htm |title=Bob Woolmer, the 'computer coach' |publisher=ABC Grandstand |date=March 19, 2007 |access-date=December 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070328213832/http://www.abc.net.au/sport/columns/200703/s1875129.htm |archive-date=28 March 2007 |url-status=live }}</ref> He later attracted attention at the 1999 World Cup by communicating with his captain [[Hansie Cronje]] with an earpiece during matches. The practice was later banned.

===South Africa===
He was appointed coach of [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]] in 1994. Initially his team performed poorly, losing all six matches on his first outing in Pakistan.<ref name="abc"/> However, in the next five years, South Africa won most of their [[Test cricket|Test]] (10 out of 15 series) and [[One Day International]] matches (73%).<ref name=woolmersite /> However, the side failed to win either the [[1996 Cricket World Cup|1996 World Cup]] or the [[1999 Cricket World Cup|1999 World Cup]], despite having the highest ODI success rate among international teams in that However his greatest success as a coach was when his team won the inaugural Icc champions trophy (then called Wills international cup or ICC Knockouts trophy).

At the 1996 tournament on the [[Indian subcontinent]], his team won all their preliminary group matches before succumbing to the [[West Indies cricket team|West Indies]] in the quarter finals.

After this in 1998, South Africa won their first and to this day their only ICC tournament as they won the ICC Knockouts trophy held in Bangladesh. This was also the first team South Africa had played an ICC tournament final. Jacques Kallis was given the player of the tournament award in this tournament.

At the 1999 tournament, South Africa faced Australia in the final match of the Super Six round; Australia needed to win to qualify for the semifinals, whereas South Africa had already done so. Australia boasted a superior recent record in must-win matches against South Africa. Media speculation was focused on Woolmer's team being less adept at handling high pressure situations. In the 1997/98 Australian international season, Australia had lost all four of their qualifying matches against South Africa in a triangular tournament and conceded a 1–0 finals series lead, before recovering to take the series 2–1. The Super Six match saw Australia win the match in the last [[over (cricket)|over]], after [[Herschelle Gibbs]] dropped Australian captain [[Steve Waugh]] in a premature celebration of a catch. Waugh went on to score an unbeaten century and score the winning runs. The semifinal rematch saw a late Australian comeback culminate in a tie, when with match scores level, South African batsmen [[Lance Klusener]] and [[Allan Donald]] had a mix up, with Donald dropping his bat and being [[run out]]. As a result, South Africa were eliminated due to their inferior performance in the earlier matches,<ref name=99match>{{cite web|title=Australia Vs South Africa Semi-Final Details |date=17 June 1999| publisher=Cricinfo|url=http://uk.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/WC99/SCORECARDS/FINALS/AUS_RSA_WC99_ODI-SEMI2_17JUN1999.html}}</ref> and Woolmer resigned.

Woolmer was a strong candidate to replace [[David Lloyd (cricketer)|David Lloyd]] as coach of [[England cricket team|England]] in 1999 but wanted a break from cricket and was reluctant to lead England in a tour of [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]] so soon after having relinquished the South African coaching job. [[Image:Bob Woolmer 1999.jpg|thumb|right|Woolmer speaking at a cricket dinner in Cape Town in December 1999]]

===Back to Warwickshire===
He later returned to Warwickshire, and gained attention when he called for the removal of a life ban on South African captain [[Hansie Cronje]] for match-fixing. Woolmer spoke openly about Cronje and match fixing in an interview on the BBC TV programme "Panorama" in May 2001.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/audio_video/programmes/panorama/transcripts/transcript_20_05_01.txt Transcript – Panorama: "Not Cricket"] BBC News, 20 May 2001</ref> He then worked for the [[International Cricket Council]] in helping with cricket development in countries where the sport was not well established.<ref name="abc"/>

===Pakistan===
He was appointed coach of the [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]] team in 2004. This came after [[Javed Miandad]] was sacked when the Pakistanis conceded a 2–1 Test and 3–2 ODI series loss on home soil to arch rivals [[India national cricket team|India]], their first series win there in two decades. He was feted when his team reversed the result in early 2005 on their return tour to India, drawing the Tests 1–1 and winning the ODI series 4–2. In 2005 Pakistan beat England in a home series immediately after England had beaten the Australian team in England to secure the Ashes. In the home series against India that followed, Woolmer's side were victorious in the Test series, winning it 1–0; however, the side lost the ODI series that followed 4–1. Woolmer's side then beat Sri Lanka 2–0 in a 3 ODI series and achieved a 3rd consecutive Test series win with a 1–0 win in a 2 test series with Sri Lanka.

====2006 ball-tampering row====
In August 2006, on the eve of [[Pakistan national cricket team|Pakistan]]'s [[Twenty20]] international against [[England cricket team|England]] in [[Bristol]], Woolmer was forced to defend his reputation when it was claimed Pakistani players lifted the seam of the ball when he was in charge of the team.<ref name="khaleejtimes-08-28">{{cite news |title=Bob Woolmer hits back in new ball-tampering row |date=28 August 2006 |work=[[Khaleej Times]] |url=http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/sports/2006/August/sports_August891.xml&section=sports&subsection=cricket |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070320142315/http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data%2Fsports%2F2006%2FAugust%2Fsports_August891.xml&section=sports&subsection=cricket |archive-date=20 March 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref> Former [[International Cricket Council]] match referee [[Barry Jarman]] alleged that during the 1997 triangular one-day tournament involving [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africa]], [[Zimbabwe national cricket team|Zimbabwe]] and [[India national cricket team|India]], a match ball, still in Jarman's possession, that was confiscated after just 16 overs showed evidence of tampering by Woolmer's team. Woolmer could not recall any such incident and he denied advocating ball-tampering. He also indicated that he contacted the match officials from that game who also could not recall any such incident.<ref name="khaleejtimes-08-28"/>

Woolmer stated in 2006 that he believed that ball-tampering should be allowed in cricket and that a modification to existing laws should be made.<ref>{{cite news |title=How Boycott swung the verdict |work=The Guardian|date=29 June 2006 |url=http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricket/story/0,,1883674,00.html |access-date=20 March 2007 | location=London | first=Omar | last=Waraich}}</ref>

==Death==
On 18 March 2007 – the day after Pakistan were knocked out of the [[2007 Cricket World Cup|2007 World Cup]], and three days before their final game of the tournament – Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room at the [[Jamaica Pegasus Hotel]] in [[Kingston, Jamaica]]. The initial report was that Woolmer had died of a heart attack. On 22 March, Jamaican police confirmed that an investigation had been launched because of the circumstances of Woolmer's death, based on a report by pathologist Ere Seshaiah that Woolmer had died of [[asphyxia]] via manual strangulation. Deputy Police Commissioner [[Mark Shields (police commissioner)|Mark Shields]] led the investigation.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Townsend |first1=Mark |title=Bob Woolmer: The murder that never was |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2007/jul/01/cricket.features |access-date=22 September 2019 |work=The Observer |date=30 June 2007}}</ref>

On 12 June 2007, Lucius Thomas, the commissioner of the [[Jamaica Constabulary Force]], announced that the investigation had concluded that Woolmer had died of natural causes, and was not murdered as indicated by the earlier pathologist's report. Three independent pathologists' reports commissioned by the police had found that the initial conclusion of manual strangulation was incorrect, and toxicology tests found no evidence of poisoning.<ref>{{cite news |title=Woolmer 'died of natural causes' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6745589.stm |publisher=BBC News |date=12 June 2007 |access-date=12 June 2007}}</ref> The findings of the pathologists, and of [[Metropolitan Police]] detectives who had visited Jamaica to assist with the investigation, were reported in the weeks leading up to the announcement, which was widely expected by the time it was made. Reports suggested that Woolmer suffered from health problems including an enlarged heart and [[diabetes]], which may have contributed to his death.<ref>{{cite news |title='It wasn't murder!' Scotland Yard says Bob Woolmer died of heart failure |publisher=[[Jamaica Gleaner]] |date=13 May 2007 |url=http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070513/lead/lead1.html |access-date=13 May 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515070432/http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20070513/lead/lead1.html |archive-date=15 May 2007 |df=dmy }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Coach Woolmer 'was not murdered' |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6714545.stm  |publisher=BBC News |date=2 June 2007 |access-date=12 June 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Mark |last=Townsend |title=Final report: Woolmer not murdered |url=https://www.theguardian.com/crime/article/0,,2099743,00.html |publisher=The Observer |date=10 June 2007 |access-date=12 June 2007 | location=London}}</ref>

On 6 November, coroner Patrick Murphy asked for further tests to be carried out on samples taken from Woolmer's body following discrepancies in the toxicology reports by forensic scientists from the Caribbean and the UK.<ref>[http://content-www.cricinfo.com/woolmer/content/current/story/318601.html Coroner calls for further tests on Woolmer's body] ESPN cricinfo, 6 November 2007</ref>

After hearing twenty-six days of evidence, the jury at the inquest returned an [[open verdict]], refusing to rule out the controversial strangulation theory put forward by Ere Seshaiah.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2007-11-30/police-close-woolmer-case-after-open-verdict/973302 Police close Woolmer case after open verdict] ABC, 30 November 2007</ref>

In an interview with ''Fox News'', former South African cricketer [[Clive Rice]] claimed that Woolmer was murdered by organised crime groups, saying "These mafia betting syndicates do not stop at anything and they do not care who gets in their way".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/cronje-woolmer-murdered-by-mafia-betting-syndicates-rice_100425138.html#ixzz0ywFUTMJj |title=Cronje, Woolmer murdered by mafia betting syndicates: Rice |publisher=Thaindian.com |date=2010-09-08 |access-date=2013-08-02}}</ref>

Former Australian captain [[Ian Chappell]] has also gone on record stating that he "doubts that he died of natural causes" and speculated that Woolmer may have been about to reveal "some misgivings".<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/745361.html?CMP=EMCSPTEML942|title=Cricket has a history of being blind to corruption|last=Ian Chappell|author-link=Ian Chappell|date=18 May 2014|publisher=[[ESPNcricinfo]]|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

An article appearing in the ''[[Journal of Sport and Social Issues]]'' in 2010 suggested that there were links in the reporting of context surrounding Woolmer's death and [[Islamophobia]] in the British media.<ref>Malcolm, Dominic, Alan Bairner, and Graham Curry, “'Woolmergate': Cricket and the Representation of Islam and Muslims in the British Press", ''[[Journal of Sport and Social Issues]]'', vol. 34 no. 2 (May 2010) 215-235</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
* One of five [[Wisden Cricketer of the Year|Wisden Cricketers of the Year]] in 1976
* [[Green Park Stadium]] in Kanpur, Woolmer's birthplace, is nicknamed as Woolmer's Turf in his honour. Also the street surrounding the stadium is named Woolmer Street in memorial of Woolmer.{{cn|date=April 2025}}
* Posthumously honoured with the ''[[Sitara-e-Imtiaz]]'' (Star of Excellence), a high ranking [[Civil decorations of Pakistan|civil award of Pakistan]], for his contribution to Pakistan cricket<ref>{{cite news |title=President Musharraf honours Woolmer with Sitara-i-Imtiaz |publisher=[[Cricinfo]] |date=22 March 2007 |url=http://content-www.cricinfo.com/pakistan/content/current/story/286699.html |access-date=20 March 2007}}</ref>
* Cricket academy named after Bob Woolmer in Lahore "Bob Woolmer National Indoor Cricket Academy Lahore"

==References==
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==External links==
{{Wikinews|Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer dies at age 58 | Pakistan coach's death 'suspicious'}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20080714072127/http://www.bobwoolmerbook.com/ Website on the ''Art and Science of Cricket'', Bob Woolmer's coaching manual released in 2008]
*{{cricinfo|id=22520}}
*[http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/286045.html CricInfo: Full coverage of Bob Woolmer's passing]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070822210404/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=XEKIIZGR0JHHDQFIQMGSFFWAVCBQWIV0?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/19/db1901.xml Obituary], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'', 19 March 2007
*[https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article1534297.ece Obituary], ''[[The Times]]'', 19 March 2007
*[https://www.theguardian.com/obituaries/story/0,,2037875,00.html Obituary], ''[[The Guardian]]'', 20 March 2007
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070329055430/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2374392.ece Obituary], ''[[The Independent]]'', 20 March 2007
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070927190042/http://www.veoh.com/videos/v415043a6wjgBN4 Woolmer century vs Australia on Veoh]

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