Just over per week after false studies of his passing, Zimbabwean cricketing nice Heath Streak has now died after a battle with most cancers.
Streak’s spouse Nadine posted the news on Facebook that the 49-year-old had sadly misplaced his battle with colon and liver most cancers.
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“In the early hours of this morning, Sunday, September 3rd, 2023, the greatest love of my life and father of my beautiful children, was carried to be with the angels from his home, where he wished to spend his last days surrounded by his family and closest loved ones,” Nadine Streak wrote on Facebook.
The publish was coupled with plenty of photographs of an virtually unrecognisable Streak surrounded by his household.
“He was covered in love and peace and did not walk off the park alone.
“Our souls are joined for eternity, Streaky.
“Till I hold you again.”
The terribly unhappy news come simply over per week since a weird chapter when Streak’s former Zimbabwean teammate, Henry Olonga, introduced on social media the all-rounder had handed away in a now deleted tweet.
Olonga then adopted that up by writing: “I can confirm that rumours of the demise of Heath Streak have been greatly exaggerated.
“I just heard from him. The third umpire has called him back. He is very much alive folks.”
Streak emerged as one of many nice cricket all-rounders of the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s.
He took a document 216 wickets and scored 1990 runs from 65 Test matches for Zimbabwe, including 189 ODIs in a world profession that spanned 1993 to 2005.
Quite a few individuals expressed their disappointment within the news, together with former Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya.
“Very sad to hear the passing away of Heath Streak,” he wrote. “Great cricketer wonderful human being. RIP.”
Indian cricketers Gautam Gambhir and Suresh Raina additionally posted about Streak.
Olonga additionally posted one other tweet on X, previously Twitter, on Sunday, writing merely: “RIP Streaky.”
There had been some merciless replies to that publish contemplating the saga that began on 23 August, together with a quantity asking whether or not the news had been confirmed.
To one such query, Olonga replied: “His wife posted on Facebook. I was close enough to the family to know it was close.
“May explain why wires got crossed the first time.
“Nothing malicious unlike what many in the world think.
“I mean they seriously think I would play games with something this serious.”
In one other reply to somebody suggesting Olonga hadn’t apologised, he replied kindly: “I very much apologised my friend even wrote about what happened.
“You do not know how it happened but I was told just like today by a source who got it wrong. And I very much got it wrong too.
“Heath was my friend. And no – now is a time for kindness not harshness.”
Source: www.news.com.au
