Unsettling, to say the least:

The genteel sport of cricket was dealt a brutal blow when Jamaican police said Pakistan’s national coach was murdered in his hotel room a day after his team suffered a humiliating World Cup loss.

Bob Woolmer, 58, was found unconscious in his blood- and vomit-splattered hotel room in Jamaica on Sunday after his team’s defeat to Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day sealed Pakistan’s ouster from the tournament.

He was later declared dead at a hospital. Police said at the time that initial tests didn’t indicate how he died.

But Police Commissioner Lucius Thomas said Thursday in a statement that the pathologist report found Woolmer’s death was due to “asphyxia as a result of manual strangulation.”

Hat tip: Jim Hoft, who has more coverage and notes that Pakistani cricket fans burned an effigy of the national cricket team in Lahore after the loss.

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