Andrew Symonds

Following the tragic news of the death of Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds, the cricketing world bid farewell to one of the most well-liked former ...

Such tragic news 💔🥲— VVS Laxman (@VVSLaxman281) pic.twitter.com/pBWEqVO6IY May 15, 2022 Thoughts & prayers with the family.— Shoaib Akhtar (@shoaib100mph) #AndrewSymonds pic.twitter.com/QMZMCwLdZs May 14, 2022 Heartbroken!! RIP Roy 💔— Ashleigh Gardner (@akgardner97) pic.twitter.com/0WVlkuhI38 May 14, 2022 Woke up to this shocking news! RIP legend ! Thoughts and prayers to his family and friends 🙏🏻— Angelo Mathews (@Angelo69Mathews) pic.twitter.com/lOqBeFAjta May 15, 2022 That’s Roy. 💔😞— Adam Gilchrist (@gilly381) May 15, 2022

Queensland Police say they are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash in Hervey Range, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) from Townsville. Emergency services ...

"The thoughts of everyone at Kent Cricket are with Roy's family and friends at this desperately sad time." "The club is shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of former overseas star and cult hero, Andrew Symonds," the star's former club, Kent Cricket, said on Twitter. Symonds is the third Australian cricket icon to die this year after Shane Warne and Rod Marsh.

Two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds tragically killed in a single-car crash outside Townsville.

— cricket.com.au (@cricketcomau)May 15, 2022 Such tragic news 💔🥲pic.twitter.com/pBWEqVO6IY Thoughts & prayers with the family.#AndrewSymonds pic.twitter.com/QMZMCwLdZs — Adam Gilchrist (@gilly381)May 15, 2022 — Adam Gilchrist (@gilly381)May 14, 2022 He featured in 198 ODIs – scoring six centuries and 30 half-centuries – while also contributing 133 wickets with his more than handy off-spin and medium pace.

SYDNEY — Former Australian test cricketer Andrew Symonds has died after a single-vehicle auto accident near Townsville in northeast Australia. He was 46.

He also was disciplined prior to the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup for breaching team rules around alcohol. He was born in Birmingham, England to a father believed to be of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Symonds famously attended an early contract meeting with Australian Cricket chief executive Malcolm Speed bare-footed and wearing a cowboy hat. Symonds played 26 test matches for Australia from 2004-2008, posting two centuries, but he was better known as a limited-overs specialist. Australia went on to win the tournament. He was 46.

Former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has died in a car crash aged 46, Cricket Australia has announced.

Cricket Australia described Symonds as "a cult hero during the peak of his international playing career and one of the most skilled all-rounders Australian cricket has seen". Former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds has died in a car crash aged 46, Cricket Australia has announced. Australian cricket 'cult hero' Andrew Symonds killed in car crash in Queensland

Andrew Symonds death: Symonds' career was a roller-coaster, a topsy-turvy ride, and while he enthralled on the field with his dynamic skills, ...

However, Symonds created a bit of history of his own as he became the then-costliest overseas player as the Deccan Chargers spent a whopping USD 1.35 million on the all-rounder. In 2009, Symonds decided to ditch his dreadlocks for a charity drive and shaved his head on live television on February 14 as part of the World's Greatest Shave fund-raising event. During the course of his inning, Symonds made the most of small boundaries at Abergavenny to hammer 16 sixes, the most in a single innings of a County Championship match. Symonds' career was a roller-coaster, a topsy-turvy ride, and while he enthralled on the field with his dynamic skills, there were certain things about Symonds' life and career which not many are aware of. Symonds had a decorated County career, having represented Gloucestershire, Lancashire, Surrey and Kent. However, in his first stint in 1995, representing Gloucestershire, a 20-year-old Symonds burst onto the scene and smashed an unbeaten 254. Of course, he could hit the ball a long distance, and would take wickets with his off-spin and medium-pace, but it was his fielding that really stood out from the rest.

Former Australia all-rounder and two-time World Cup winner Andrew Symonds has died following a car accident in Queensland, Cricket Australia (CA) said on ...

Symonds's death occurred with Australian cricket still coming to terms with the passing of all-time greats Rod Marsh and Shane Warne, who both died in March. Prayers for the departed soul." "On behalf of Australian cricket our deepest sympathies are with Andrew's family, team-mates, and friends." "He was just an entertainer. Heartfelt condolences to the family and friends. Police said the accident occurred in Hervey Range, 50 km from Townsville, on Saturday night.

Cricket Australia reported Symonds' death on its website on Sunday, citing a police statement with details of the accident late Saturday night. It described ...

He also was disciplined before the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup for breaching team rules around alcohol. "Early information indicates, shortly after 11 p.m. the car was being driven on Hervey Range Road, near Alice River Bridge when it left the roadway and rolled," a police statement said. People liked his very laid-back style." However, he died of his injuries." "He was, in a way, a little bit of an old-fashioned cricketer," Border told the Nine Network. "He was an adventurer, loved his fishing, he loved hiking, camping. It described Symonds as "a cult hero during the peak of his international playing career and one of the most skilled all-rounders Australian cricket has seen."

Most of all he was a true allrounder, on and off the field, and leaves behind a legacy of greatness.

Most of the time he was out back and “out of range” and you came back empty. Instead he took a gig in the Indian Premier League worth $1.8m, the second-biggest salary in the league. For the fourth estate, he was manna – enigmatic, untameable and unaffected. Symonds was born in Birmingham in 1975, two days after the first Cricket World Cup kicked off in London. His parentage was a mix of Afro-Caribbean and Swedish or Danish blood. There was none of the swagger he carried into the short-form game, where canny captains like Ricky Ponting knew not to assign him a role but merely turn him loose. Soon after, Symonds was axed from the Australian side after he missed a team meeting to go fishing. In the coming years, Symonds would speak of his problems with binge drinking. Australia’s hero of that 1975 World Cup had been another burly showman, Gary Gilmour. But like ‘Gus’ Gilmour, ‘Roy’ Symonds never settled into his groove as the allrounder Australia had craved since the late Keith Miller sheathed his rapier, hung up his comb and went to the races. With a few swings of his bat, an over of crafty medium pace or off-spin, or a spectacular leap, dive and throw in the field, Symonds could turn a game on its head. He was a gifted athlete, a born entertainer and a reluctant celebrity. But not for the last time, Symonds went his own way, defecting to his homeland. If Shane Warne was Australian cricket’s most brilliant larrikin, Symonds was its wildest colonial boy, more at ease mud-crabbing or deep sea-fishing than playing organised cricket with its traditions, rites and passages and pressure tests.

Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds breathed his last on Saturday (May 14) after a tragic car crash in Queensland, Australia. Symonds had once opened ...

The incident was one of the lowest points in Symonds' international career and affected him adversely. Regarded as one of the finest all-rounders to have graced the game, Symonds endured several ups and downs in his career. Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds was known for his all-round exploits on the cricket field.

Even the monkey-gate incident—which would follow him everywhere, and engrave itself invisibly on his epitaph—would have been perceived differently, ...

The crux of Symonds the cricketer was his own tussle with the changing times, a battle he was doomed to lose. Here, as well in the past, Symonds was just being Symonds. True to himself, his instincts and values, those that would have endeared him to the masses in a different era, but found himself judged by an era that was at odds with his spirit, like a bird imprisoned in a golden cage. An embodiment of all that was wrong with the game in the country. “In a way he was a bit of an old-fashioned cricketer, would not have been out of place playing in the ’70s or ‘80s. He just wanted to entertain.” Between January 2008 and 2009, he was at the heart of almost every cricketing scandal that brew in Australia. He was projected as the metaphor of the decadence that had crept into Australia’s cricket culture. He hated all that new-age jazz—advertisements, sponsors, interview requests, endless team meetings—and in the rare time he got, he ravenously took to the bottle. As the calendar got busier and restrictions tighter, he craved that me-time. “I’m passionate about cricket, but it is not the be all and end all of my life. “I felt like I was in a cage. The sport itself, and the culture around Australian cricket, was rapidly changing. The next morning, then captain Ricky Ponting confronted him and conveyed the message that he was flying back home. But somewhere in his time, as cricket lurched to a more cut-throat, professional realm, he became an anachronism, a misfit.

Australian cricket was reeling Sunday after swashbuckling former all-rounder Andrew Symonds was killed in a car crash -- another tragic blow after the ...

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Andrew Symonds, who died on Saturday night in a car crash aged 46, was instantly recognisable on the cricket field with a mop of dreadlocks poking out from ...

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Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds, who has died after a single-vehicle auto accident, was a big-hitting white ball star who built a credible test ...

He also was disciplined prior to the 2009 Twenty20 World Cup for breaching team rules around alcohol. He was born in Birmingham, England to a father believed to be of Afro-Caribbean heritage. Symonds famously attended an early contract meeting with Australian Cricket chief executive Malcolm Speed bare-footed and wearing a cowboy hat. Symonds played 26 test matches for Australia from 2004-2008, posting two centuries, but he was better known as a limited-overs specialist. Australia went on to win the tournament. He was 46.

Retired Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds has died aged 46 after he was involved in a car crash.

Andrew was a generational talent who was instrumental in Australia's success at World Cups and as part of Queensland's rich cricket history. Symonds was a powerful hitter, an effective bowler and was known for his ability to pull off direct hits on the field. Cricket