Pakistan
Inzamam warning against legal action
2007-06-12 20:49:00

Inzamam-ul-Haq has urged Pakistan against taking legal action following the news that Jamaican police now believe Bob Woolmer was not murdered.

Police announced on Tuesday afternoon that they now believed the Pakistan coach died of natural causes, contradicting their previous assertion thatthe 58-year-old Englishman had been murdered.

Woolmer was found dead in his Kingston hotel room on March 18, the day after his side had suffered a shock defeat to Ireland in the World Cup.

The entire Pakistan squad was questioned in relation to the death and there have been suggestions the country's cricket authorities could consider legal action.

But Inzamam has warned against reopening wounds by taking the matter to court.

"I don't feel court action would be of any use now," he told Geo TV.

"The players in general and I, as captain in particular, went through hell and those were the most terrible days of our lives.

"We must be ready to handle such things better in future by involving the government and the (Pakistan Cricket) Board from the initial stages."

However, Inzamam's view is in stark contrast to that of another former Pakistan skipper, Imran Khan, who is furious with the way the incident was handled.

"No-one should be able to go away scot-free after tarnishing and damaging the reputation of players and cricket so much," Khan said.

"Pakistan Cricket Board should sue everyone with responsibility because this was so damaging for the Pakistani team, for Pakistan cricket and to the country.

"They should have ruled out first whether this was natural causes.

"By what Pakistan cricket has been through - players being DNA-tested, finger-printed, insinuations of match-fixing, insinuations that the players might have killed their coach - all this was so damaging and this went on for a good two months.

"I think someone should be held responsible for it."

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