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Khan demands Woolmer action

Imran Khan has urged his country's cricket board to take legal action over the Bob Woolmer affair, after Jamaican police confirmed they now believe the former Pakistan coach was not murdered during the World Cup and died of natural causes.

Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious and later died in his Kingston hotel room on March 18. An initial pathologist's report concluded he had been strangled to death and the subsequent launch of a murder inquiry gave rise to a number of conspiracy theories.

There was much innuendo and suspicion around Pakistan cricket, and Khan told Geo TV: "I think someone should be held responsible for it."

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

"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.

"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."

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