By Oliver Brett

Woolmer's coaching career took off after success at Edgbaston

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.

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"It will be some form of match involving international world stars," he said.

"There are some discussions going on with potential broadcasters, and there is a good level of commitment from both governments and national cricket boards to get some of the game's top players."

Former Warwickshire batsman Brian Lara, who has retired from international cricket and is currently signed up with the "rebel" Indian Cricket League, will be an obvious target.

He scored the highest first-class score, 501, at Edgbaston in the year Warwickshire won the Treble.

Tim Munton of the Professional Cricketers' Association has been charged with arranging the match.

Povey said careful consideration had to be given about a permanent Woolmer memorial at the ground.

We have got quite a major ground redevelopment coming up which would create some opportunities Colin Povey Warwickshire CCC

"Initially people were quite nervous," he said.

"Given the circumstances, there was quite a strong view to get something pushed out in haste, but we need to sit down and talk with the family.

"We have got quite a major ground redevelopment coming up which would create some opportunities.

"It's traditional to name stands or parts of the ground.

"There will be other names in the hat as well, but there's a lot of goodwill towards Bob Woolmer and his family."

Woolmer's death soon after Pakistan were eliminated from the World Cup has never been convincingly explained.

After a five-week inquest ended in late November, a jury found insufficient evidence of either a criminal act or of a death by natural causes and returned an open verdict.