Pakistan Team Not Yet Cleared in Woolmer Probe: Jamaican Police Chief   
Pakistan Times Sports Desk

JAMAICA: Despite the fact that they have left Jamaica, the Pakistan team has not been cleared in the inquiry into the murder of cricket coach Bob Woolmer, a British channel reported the detective heading the probe as saying on Tuesday.

Presented with comments from Pakistan team media spokesman Pervez Mir that the team had been cleared, Deputy Police Commissioner Mark Shields told the broadcaster:

"That's a pretty inaccurate statement, because nobody at this stage can be ruled out of the inquiry."

Shields added that a theory that "keeps coming to light" about the circumstances surrounding Woolmer's death is one involving match-fixing.

"One of those that keeps coming to light, it looks like, is around match-fixing and bookies, so therefore that's the clear line of inquiry, but its not the only line."

Woolmer was last week declared to have been strangled in "evil and extraordinary" circumstances in the aftermath of Pakistan's shock defeat and World Cup exit at the hands of minnows Ireland.

The murder has triggered frenzied conspiracy theories about illegal match-fixing in cricket, with several former players speculating Woolmer had been killed to prevent him from speaking out.

However, close friends and family say they have found nothing to suggest there is any truth to the claim that the respected former England international was set to blow the whistle on cricket corruption.●