Peter Roebuck
Cricket Player
1956 – 2011
Who was Peter Roebuck?
Peter Michael Roebuck was an English cricketer who achieved later renown as an Australian newspaper columnist and radio commentator. A consistent county performer with over 25,000 runs, and "one of the better English openers of the 1980s", Roebuck captained the English county side Somerset between 1986 and 1988. During 1989, Roebuck also captained an England XI one-day cricket team in two matches. His post-playing career as an erudite writer earned him great acclaim as a journalist with the Sunday Times and later as an author. Roebuck committed suicide in Cape Town, South Africa, on 12 November 2011 after being asked by police to answer questions about an allegation of sexual assault.
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- Born
- Mar 6, 1956
Oddington, Oxfordshire - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Millfield
- Died
- Nov 12, 2011
Newlands, Cape Town
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on July 23, 2013
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