Andrew Symonds
Australian cricketer
Died when: 46 years 339 days (563 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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Andrew Symonds (9 June 1975 – 14 May 2022) was an Australian international cricketer, who played all three formats as a batting all-rounder.Commonly nicknamed "Roy", he was a key member of two World Cup winning squads.
Symonds played as a right-handed, middle order batsman and alternated between medium pace and off-spin bowling.He was also notable for his exceptional fielding skills.
After mid-2008, Symonds spent significant time out of the team, due to disciplinary reasons, including alcohol.In June 2009, he was sent home from the 2009 World Twenty20, his third suspension, expulsion or exclusion from selection in the space of a year.
His central contract was then withdrawn, and many cricket analysts speculated that the Australian administrators would no longer tolerate him, and that Symonds might announce his retirement.
Symonds eventually retired from all forms of cricket in February 2012, to concentrate on his family life.In 2022, Symonds died in a single-vehicle car crash about 50 km (31 mi) outside Townsville, Queensland.
He was 46.
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