Former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to sue the Jamaican Police and former fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz for raising suspicions on the team in connection with the March 18 death of coach Bob Woolmer.
London, June 7 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Imran Khan has urged the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to sue the Jamaican Police and former fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz for raising suspicions on the team in connection with the March 18 death of coach Bob Woolmer.
The former all-rounder said that the entire Pakistani World Cup team had to face fingerprinting, DNA tests and allegations of match-fixing owing to a "completely wrong diagnosis" of Woolmer's death.
"In my opinion, the PCB should sue for defamation. If I was the Pakistan captain, I would have asked for damages. They should also sue Sarfraz Nawaz, because he was the first one to raise allegations of the Pakistan team's involvement with bookies," the Daily Times quoted Imran, as saying.
"The team became suspects. At first, everyone had assumed it was a natural death. When the Pakistan media manager saw Woolmer's body he thought it was a straightforward case of natural death. The Jamaican Police should have had more evidence before they raised suspicions of murder," he added.
Imran was speaking after the publication of further reports suggesting that 58-year-old Woolmer had died of natural causes during the World Cup in the West Indies in March this year.
Earlier, medical findings suggested that Woolmer had been murdered. After which, former Scotland Yard detective Mark Shields announced to the world that Woolmer had been strangled in his hotel room during the World Cup.
But a review of earlier autopsy by a senior Home Office pathologist in London concluded that it was wrong to suggest that Woolmer was strangled.
Tests showed the heavy-drinking coach was not poisoned either. He was also likely to have been under stress after Pakistan crashed out of the World Cup.
ANI