Former Zimbabwe all-rounder Heath Streak is NOT dead, opposite to stories on Tuesday morning that the 49-year-old had handed away.
Streak has set the document straight after former Zimbabwe team-mate Henry Olonga shared on social media platform X, previously referred to as Twitter, that Streakr had died.
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The message learn: “Sad news coming through that Heath Streak has crossed to the other side. RIP Zimbabwe cricket legend,”
“The greatest all-rounder we produced. It was a pleasure playing with you.”
Heath Streak is preventing most cancers
However, shortly thereafter, Olonga posted on X that Streak was ‘very much alive’, after Streak responded to a WhatsApp message with ‘Very much alive, pse (please) revert this run-out IMMEDIATELY buddy’
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Olonga wrote: “I can verify that rumours of the demise of Heath Streak have been tremendously exaggerated. I simply heard from him. The third umpire has referred to as him again. He is very a lot alive people.“
Earlier stories mentioned that Streak had succumbed to most cancers having undergone remedy for his sickness.
Streak performed 65 Tests and 189 ODIs for Zimbabwe, scoring 1 990 and a pair of 943 runs, respectively.
He took 216 Test wickets and 239 within the ODI format.
He additionally represented Hampshire and Warwickshire in English county cricket.
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After retiring from worldwide cricket, Streak was appointed Bangladesh coach in addition to bowling coach for Indian Premier League aspect, the Kolkata Knight Riders.
He was additionally Zimbabwe bowling coach for a interval beginning in 2009.
Streak additionally hit the headlines in 2021 after he was given an eight-year ban for admitting to breaches of the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code.
