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Woolmer to have stand named after him
Former Warwickshire coach Bob Woolmer could have a stand named after
him at Edgbaston, the BBC has learned.
The Bears are considering how to remember one of their most successful
coaches, should plans for a £20m ground redevelopment be approved.
Woolmer, who also coached Pakistan and South Africa, was 58 when
he died at the Cricket World Cup in March.
Plans are also being developed to bring the game’s biggest
stars to Edgbaston for a memorial match on 25 July.
Woolmer, who played Test cricket as a top-order batsman for England,
guided Warwickshire to a dream “Treble” in 1994, winning
the County Championship, Sunday League and Benson & Hedges Cup.
Warwickshire and England star Ian Bell credited him as one of the
major influences behind his development.
And Bell was among those who called for a permanent memorial at
Edgbaston - another was former Bears chief executive Dennis Amiss
- in the wake of Woolmer’s tragic death in Jamaica.
Current Warwickshire chief executive Colin Povey told BBC Sport
that while there was scope for a Woolmer stand, or something similar,
when the Edgbaston revamp is completed, the focus was very much
on the match in July. [BBC]
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