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Cricket World Cup
It's a bit sad reading all the columns and comments online about Woolmer's death. There seems to be an element of "cricket has lost its innocence" about it all, and that this World Cup will be remembered for Woolmer's murder, and the winner of the cup forgotten.
But I disagree in a sense. Cricket lost its innocence during the 80s and 90s as it became increasingly professional, and probably shed the last vestiges of its innocence with the match-fixing scandal of Hansie Cronje in 2000.
Doubtless Bob would be mortified to see the standard of cricket suffer in any way because of his death. Let's hope all the nations pull together and make the rest of the torunament memorable for the standard of cricket played. South Africa recovered admirably from the Cronje years, and are now stronger than ever. Perhaps all the ICC nations can do the same now in tribute to Bob.
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