"Pak cricket team kept in the dark on Woolmer's murder"

Pakistan cricket team spokesman Pervez Mir has said that the team was being "kept in the dark" by the Jamaican Police over the murder of coach Bob Woolmer.

He said that the "visibly disturbed" players were not being given enough information on the investigation into a killing that had sent shock waves well beyond the world of cricket.

The Pakistan team is on a stopover rest period in London en route home, rocked by being knocked out of the 2007 World Cup in the Caribbean at the first hurdle and the murder of former England international Woolmer, who was strangled in his hotel room on March 18.

"We assisted in whatever way they (the Jamaican police) wanted, but we need an official statement from their office to notify us officially as to what were the causes of Woolmer's death," the Daily Times quoted Mir as saying outside the team's hotel near London Heathrow Airport.

"We heard on television that he was murdered, but we've not been officially told and we need to know the reasons for his death," he said and insisted that the Pakistan team remained ready to assist Mark Shields, the deputy commissioner of Jamaican police, who was leading the investigation into Woolmer's murder in Kingston.

"I left a message late on Sunday on Shields' telephone because my chairman wants to know, my board wants to know, what's going on as far as the investigation is concerned and what the Jamaican police are doing to catch the killers of Woolmer," said Mir.

Mir further said: "When a man has been murdered, to divert a murder inquiry into a match-fixing inquiry, that's not fair, because we have to find the killers, then we will know what's happened. To bring up the murky world of match-fixing, I think it's not the right thing and not the right time."

He also attacked media suggestions of a strained relationship between Woolmer and Pakistan captain Inzamamul Haq. (ANI)

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