The acclaimed cricket writer Peter Roebuck has been found dead at a hotel in Cape Town, South Africa.
Roebuck, a columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, was 55.
He played for the English county Somerset, made a home in Australia, and built a reputation as arguably one of the best columnists on the sport.
Roebuck travelled widely with the Australian team, including on its current tour of South Africa, and was also a radio commentator for the ABC.
He used to write a lot about Zimbabwean cricket in particular the current leadership of Peter Chingoka and Ozias Bvute. He could have easily passed for 'enermy of the state' but at least when everyone else was shunning Zimbabwe he stood up and wrote his ocassional "expose", which kept us in the minds of the general cricketing world.
According to reports, Roebuck appeared to be in a disturbed state the night before. He was spoken to by police in his room on the sixth floor of the Southern Sun Hotel, Newlands, in Cape Town about 10pm.
It is believed police removed personal items from his room. His body was taken to the mortuary in the early hours of the morning.
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