Swashbuckling former all-rounder Andrew Symonds has been killed in a car crash, Cricket Australia said Sunday. | Sport24news
He was widely considered one of the most skilled all-rounders Australian cricket has seen, bowling both off-spin and medium pace, while playing many match-winning hands with his explosive middle-order batting.
Domestically, he played for Queensland for 17 seasons, while appearing for Gloucestershire, Kent, Lancashire and Surrey in the English County Championship and for Deccan Chargers and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League. Adam Gilchrist, another former teammate who more recently commentated alongside Symonds at Fox Sports, wrote:"This really hurts," while Pakistani fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar said he was"devastated".Symonds, who was born in England with one parent of Afro-Caribbean descent, will also be remembered for the infamous"monkeygate" scandal that sent him into a downward spiral.Singh, who denied any wrongdoing, was suspended for three matches.