The Bob Woolmer murder |
 That Bob Woolmer offered to resign shortly before being murdered doesn't thicken the plot much for the bloggers. After all, he offered the same resignation after the ball-tampering scandal. But "It's shaping up as a nice murder mystery," says the FeverPitcher, a South African sports site, "and if it was all a nicely packaged episode of CSI, the viewing would be great." But it isn't a TV show, "it's an extremely sordid real-life tale that is profoundly disturbing." |
And where better to speculate on the seamy details than a personal blog? "The conspiracy theorists are out in full force," says the 4th Umpire who lists those theories in numbered points. Number 2: "An unidentified individual was seen loitering outside Woolmer's hotel room" - not much of a theory really. It's an ideal opportunity to bring up the old conspiracies and tie them together (that being the point of The One Big Conspiracy) namely the plane crash of shamed South African Hansie Cronje in 2002. "It's just not cricket!" moans Konspiracy Korner before reminding us of cricket's chronic corruption. "Certainly you would have thought that the last place the next cricket World Cup should take place would be the Indian subcontinent, but of course in their infinite wisdom |
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