South African cricket legend, and the Proteas’ first post-isolation coach, Mike Procter, has handed away on the age of 77.
This previous week it got here to gentle that South Africa’s swashbuckling cricket all-rounder and former nationwide coach 77-year-old Mike Procter was significantly ailing in intensive care on Monday.
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Mike Procter was a SA cricket icon
Sadly, Procter’s spouse Maryna confirmed – in response to News24 – that “Mike passed away peacefully at 4.34 pm surrounded by his family”.
“He suffered a complication during surgery and, while in ICU, went intocardiac arrest. He became unconscious and unfortunately never woke up.”
Maryna was Procter’s spouse of 54 years, whereas he has three kids.
Additional reporting from Agence France-Presse
Procter’s worldwide enjoying profession with South Africa was lower quick in 1970 when his nation was excluded from world cricket due to its apartheid authorities.
Before the ban, South Africa received six of the seven Tests during which he performed, all towards Australia.
He was famend primarily as a fearsome quick bowler, taking 41 wickets at a median of 15.02 runs in his seven Tests.
But he was additionally a flamboyant batsman, and equalled a world batting document when he hit six first-class centuries in successive innings.
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After South Africa turned a democracy and returned to worldwide cricket, Mike Procter turned coach of the worldwide facet and led them to the semi-finals of the 1992 Cricket World Cup.
Procter performed first-class cricket for 16 years, together with 14 seasons with English county Gloucestershire, 5 of them as captain, the place he achieved legendary standing.
In South Africa, he performed most of his cricket for Natal, the province the place he was born.
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His six successive centuries had been made for the then Rhodesia between 1970 and 1971, culminating in a career-best 254 towards Western Province.
He scored 21,082 runs in first-class cricket at a median of 36.92, hitting 47 centuries, and took 1,357 wickets at a median of 19.07 runs.
