Topped himself by jumping from the sixth floor of a hotel.
What is it about cricket and suicide?
What is it about cricket and suicide?
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Peter Roebuck DEAD
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Beach Hut
Brighton Bhuna Boy
There does seem to be a bad connection in cricket and suicides
Ex-Staffs Gull
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As a cricketer, a brave man kicking out Garner and Richards from Somerset which also induced the departure of IT Botham. Replaced them with youngsters Crowe and Steve Waugh, but was pretty much chased out after a few years.
Weststander
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I remember him captaining an annoying good Somerset team that thrashed Sussex out of the Gillette cup at Hove at 1984.
Similar mental frailties in Yardy, Thorpe & Trescothick.
Similar mental frailties in Yardy, Thorpe & Trescothick.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
had been spoken to earlier in the day by police due to "erratic" behaviour according to fox over here.
Man of Harveys
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Strange and troubled bloke it seems and not only for somehow getting rid of the combined talents of Richards, Garner and Botham. From his Wikipedia:
In 1999, while working as a commentator in South Africa Roebuck met three cricketers, all aged 19, and offered to coach them, inviting them to live at his home in England. He warned them beforehand that he would use corporal punishment if they failed to obey his "house rules". He caned all three men on their buttocks at different times for misbehaviour and in 2001 was given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to three charges of common assault. He told the court, "Obviously I misjudged the mood and that was my mistake and my responsibility and I accept that."
In 1999, while working as a commentator in South Africa Roebuck met three cricketers, all aged 19, and offered to coach them, inviting them to live at his home in England. He warned them beforehand that he would use corporal punishment if they failed to obey his "house rules". He caned all three men on their buttocks at different times for misbehaviour and in 2001 was given a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to three charges of common assault. He told the court, "Obviously I misjudged the mood and that was my mistake and my responsibility and I accept that."
- Jul 7, 2003
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Wonder if there's not more to come out about this one.
- Jul 7, 2003
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Who else? Bairstow I think was one. Are there others?
Man of Harveys
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Loads. There's even been a book written about it:
Amazon.com: Silence of the Heart: Cricket Suicides (9781840184068): David Frith: Books
Does seem strange. Being a professional cricketer seems to be to vie with professional musician or footballer as being in a very privileged position of getting paid for doing something that everyone else does for fun. But, as with Trescothick, happy life circumstances don't always come into it of course.
ifuhatepalacestandup
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not meant in a disrespectfull way but cricket is so dull makes me feel suicidal
Pogue Mahone
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- Apr 30, 2011
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No, that's not disrespectful. An important and relevant contribution to the discussion.
Gregory2Smith1
J'les aurai!
remember that game,dropped a tray with 3 pints of lager on it,went back to the bar and the same bloke served me,he said something like "f***ing hell,mate you drank them one's quick"
but anyway,it's a big shame when someone see's their life as not worth living
Ernest
Stupid IDIOT
I think there will be from what I hear
- Jul 7, 2003
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One of the Australian newspapers is reporting that there was a police officer in his room when he jumped, because he was being questioned by police about an allegation that had been made against him.
Barry Izbak
U.T.A.
I'm afraid that this suicide is not really much to do with cricket, and that there is certain to be more to "come out" in the papers here soon.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/peter-roebuck-in-cape-town-sex-case-probe/story-fn7x8me2-1226194009969
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/peter-roebuck-in-cape-town-sex-case-probe/story-fn7x8me2-1226194009969
beardy gull
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Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
But he had a better innings than Australia did....
- Jul 7, 2003
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Gully
Monkey in a seagull suit.
In some people, for many it gives a reason to live or gain pleasure from life...my nan loved cricket and used to go and watch her local team play regularly, the players would bring her and her friends cups of tea, she kept going until not long before she died at the age of 88.
Durlston
"You plonker, Rodney!"
I clicked on the headline TOPLESS WOMAN DRIVER CAUSES CHAOS after a number of car accidents. No pics of the naked lady.
