Former Pakistan captain Younis Khan stated that had Bob Woolmer, the late nationwide head coach, been alive, the nation’s cricket would have reached nice heights.
Woolmer who was 58 at the moment, was discovered lifeless in his resort room in Jamaica just a few hours after Pakistan had been knocked out of the 2007 World Cup after a loss to Eire.
His loss of life was later dominated attributable to pure causes after the Pakistan Cricket Board and the federal government despatched their very own safety officers to the Caribbean to work with the Jamaican police.
“I’ve little doubt that if Woolmer had remained head coach, Pakistan cricket would have been very completely different right now, and he would have taken it to nice heights,” stated Younis on a Pakistani TV channel.
“I used to be very near Bob (Woolmer) and it was our every day routine to sit down down collectively after a match or nets to debate cricket. Sadly the night time he handed away, we didn’t sit collectively as we had misplaced to Eire. I used to be additionally out for a duck and was very upset with myself. So, I went to my room and locked myself in. Subsequent day, I didn’t see him at breakfast and later we learnt about his loss of life,” Younis stated
Khan additionally revealed that after the loss of life of Woolmer, the gamers had been moved to a different island the place they had been questioned for 3 days by the native police.
“It was like a torture for us there. Whereas I absolutely perceive the obligations a participant has to indicate as an envoy of his nation, it must be the opposite means spherical… authorities should additionally take care of us,” he added.
(With company inputs)
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