I can't think of a sadder time in the game of cricket than the present. The news today that Bob Woolmer's death is believed by the Jamaican Police to be murder by strangulation, leaves me utterly speechless. What we need to know now is who did it, and why. Is this the first murder of a leading cricket identity that is related to the pernicious illegal betting industry?
It's Day Two of the World Cup, and the ICC has just agreed to allow spectators to take bottled water into the grounds so that they don't dehydrate.
Which begs a disturbing question... why has it taken them until now to consider a fundamental health issue at one of the world's major sporting events?
This just in from the World Cup organising body:
BOTTLED WATER ALLOWED IN FOR ICC CWC 2007 MATCHES
It's less than an hour till the start of the 2007 World Cup, so here are my selections for the first round group matches:
I've revived the old scrapbook concept that I was using a few years ago, however I've outsourced it to newsvine.com.
I'm using it to link to business and politics-related items about the Cricket World Cup - I figure there will be enough bloggage and reportage of the match play that I can stick to my own niche.
Occasionally there'll be a story which I might want to blog further over here, but for all the clippings, please go to rickeyre.newsvine.com.
Not a sponsor of the World Cup, but alas, with no one to ambush.
It's less than a week till the start of the world's third (or maybe even second) biggest World Cup tournament: the ICC Cricket World Cup.
Nine days before the nosharama at Luna Park Sydney celebrating Australia's ODI legacy, the team suffered its first ten-wicket loss ever in Wellington. Ever. That's 36 years of ever since the Dawn of Ever.
