Former Zimbabwe cricket captain Heath Streak has died at 49 after a battle with cancer.
Streak’s death was confirmed by his wife Nadine and comes a week after premature reports surrounding his passing.
“In the early hours of this morning … the greatest love of my life and the father of my beautiful children, was carried to be with the angels from his home where he wished to spend his last days surrounded by his family and his closest loved ones,” she wrote on Facebook.
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“He was covered in love and peace and did not walk off the park alone. Our souls are joined for eternity Streaky. Till I hold you again.”
He was one of the greatest cricketers in Zimbabwe’s history, representing the country in 65 Tests and 189 ODIs between 1993 and 2005.
From 254 international matches, he took 455 wickets, the most ever for Zimbabwe, and scored 4983 runs, including a century and 11 half-centuries.
Streak was appointed the Zimbabwe captain in 2000, but tension with the board over pay and quotas took its toll, leading to his resignation as skipper. He was reappointed in 2002, but the stresses that came with the position again wore him down.
He retired from international cricket in 2005 and held several coaching roles over the years that followed, including with Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the Kolkata Knight Riders.
In 2021, he was dealt an eight-year ban after being charged with five breaches of the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code.
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