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Inzamam controlled the team, not Woolmer
Bob Woolmer, the former Pakistan coach murdered in his hotel room last Sunday, lacked authority and control of his team who, according to Shahryar Khan, a former chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, revered Inzamam-ul-Haq as the 'unquestioned leader'.
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Musharraf honours Woolmer with Sitara-i-Imtiaz
The Pakistan president, Pervez Musharraf, has honoured Bob Woolmer with the Sitara-i-Imtiaz, a posthumous civil award, for his services to Pakistan cricket. Woolmer died in the team hotel in Jamaica on Sunday, a day after Pakistan were
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Woolmer planned book on Pak experience
Bob Woolmer had planned to write about his experiences as coach of Pakistan as part of a book based on his coaching experiences around the world. He had asked several writers to collaborate, including Ivo Tennant, co-author of Woolmer's original
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DNA testing for Pakistan players
Pakistan players and officials will undergo DNA testing following police confirmation that coach Bob Woolmer was strangled. The players had been fingerprinted on Thursday afternoon and Pervez Mir, the media manager, told Reuters that the DNA testing was
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Team to leave on Saturday evening - PCB chief
The Pakistan team is due to leave Jamaica at 6pm on Saturday, Nasim Ashraf, chairman of the Pakistan Cricket Board, said, seeking to scotch speculation that the team had been asked to stay back in the West Indies in connection with the Bob Woolmer murder
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Nazir ton leads Pakistan to victory
Imran Nazir's destructive career-best 160 was the centrepiece of Pakistan's defiant 93-run victory over Zimbabwe under the Duckworth-Lewis method. It was a day full of emotion as they took the field for the first time since the death of Bob Woolmer, none
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Woolmer may have been strangled - Jamaican papers
With no official confirmation through Wednesday of the cause of Bob Woolmer's death, the only statement came late at night from Karl Angell, the Jamaica Constabulary Force's director of communications, that said a second
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Pakistan players being questioned over Woolmer
Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of Jamaica police, said there was still no evidence of Bob Woolmer being murdered and confirmed Pakistan players would be interviewed after the coach's death on Sunday. Ten forensics experts spent the day looking
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