'Woolmer died of heart failure'

New Delhi: The newspaper The Jamaica Gleaner claimed on Sunday that the latest investigations revealed that Bob Woolmer was not murdered, but died of heart failure.

The Gleaner says that the Scotland yard investigators who were assisting the Jamaican police have studied the pathology report and come to the conclusion that Woolmer died of heart failure and not manual strangulation.

There were reports earlier of poisoning and weed killers that hit the headlines.

A team of Pakistani investigators have also claimed that there was no evidence to suggest that Woolmer was murdered.

However, there are also reports in the Sunday Telegraph that Woolmer's final email, where he said he would stand down as coach, was faked by his killers. Detectives are focusing on the language used in the mail.

People close to Woolmer have said that it clearly wasn't written by him and suggestions are that the author was someone whose first language wasn't English.

Part of the email to Nasim Ashraf, the board chairman, is reported to have said, "I would like to praise my association with the Pakistan team but now I would like to announce my retirement after the World Cup, to live the rest of my life in Cape Town. I have no lust for the job and I will not like others to make personal remarks at me. Professionally, I am open to criticism, I will be ready to continue the job if the president asks me for it."

Neil Manthorp, a respected South African cricket journalist who knew Woolmer well, told The Sunday Telegraph, "I have received hundreds of emails from him over the years and this is not his style - not the sort of words and phrases that he would use."

The email is believed to have been sent at 6 am on March 18, a few hours before Woolmer was found in his hotel room by a maid.

Mark Shields, Jamaica's deputy commissioner, has flown to Cape Town to meet Gill Woolmer, who is also reported to have reservations about the authenticity of the email.