Pakistan suffers an embarrassing defeat in their crucial World Cup match with underdogs Ireland, making them the first country to be knocked out of the tournament. Sunday, March 18

A chambermaid finds the body of Woolmer, 58, in his hotel room at the Pegasus Hotel in Kingston, Jamaica, at 10.45am. Efforts are made to revive him on the way to hospital but he never responds and is pronounced dead on arrival. Tributes from the cricketing world start to pour in and it is initially thought he may have died from a heart attack. It later emerges Woolmer's last known communication with anyone was an email he sent to his wife Gill in Cape Town, at 3.12am. She says her husband was "really depressed" and could not believe Pakistan's defeat to Ireland, but she rejects reports he had been drinking heavily and was on prescribed drugs for his type 2 diabetes as "rubbish".

Tuesday, March 20 A first post-mortem examination proves "inconclusive" and Jamaican police announce they are treating the coach's death as "suspicious".

Deputy police commissioner Mark Shields says a full investigation is being carried out. Asked directly if he is saying it was murder, he says: "No, we are not saying that," although a spokesman later adds that nothing is being ruled out. Wednesday, March 21 The devastated Pakistani team takes to the field for their final World Cup match as claims their coach has been murdered by the "match-fixing mafia" spreads across the world. They beat Zimbabwe by 93 runs and dedicate the victory to him.

Police refuse to confirm or deny reports Woolmer had been found with marks on his neck or that traces of poison had been found in the hotel room. Former Pakistani fast-bowler Sarfraz Nawaz claims Woolmer's death has "some connection with the match-fixing mafia" but his widow Gill says she does not think there is any conspiracy.

Thursday, March 22: As police await the results of further pathology tests, Mrs Woolmer says in another interview that there is a "possibility" her husband has been murdered. Police conclude their interviews with Pakistan players and fingerprint the team before their departure for Kingston airport.

Jamaican police later announce they have launched a murder inquiry after results of the further tests reveal the coach had died from asphyxia, as a result of manual strangulation. Mr Shields says police have "lots of lines of inquiry" and are not ruling anything out, including the possibility more than one person was involved in the murder.