Andrew Symonds dies in a car accident, aged 46

Previous Australia all-rounder Andrew Symonds has passed on matured 46 in a fender bender, around 50 kilometers outside Townsville on Saturday (May 14) night. In an articulation, Queensland Police said they were exploring the single-fender bender in Hervey Range Road. "Early data demonstrates, soon after 11pm the vehicle was being driven on Hervey Range Road, close to Alice River Bridge when it left the street and rolled. "Crisis administrations endeavored to resuscitate the 46-year-old driver and sole tenant, nonetheless, he passed on from his wounds." Affirming the stunning turn of events, Cricket Australia gave an assertion ascribed to seat Lachlan Henderson. "Australian cricket has lost one more of its absolute best. Andrew was a generational ability who was instrumental in Australia's prosperity at World Cups and as a component of Queensland's rich cricket history. "He was a clique figure to numerous who was prized by his fans and companions. For Australian cricket our most profound feelings are with Andrew's family, colleagues, and companions." A fan #1, Symonds played 26 Tests, 198 One-Day Internationals and 14 T20Is in a periodically disputable, however generally fruitful profession somewhere in the range of 1998 and 2009. Ruthlessly forceful with the bat, capably light-footed on the field and beguilingly risky with the ball, Symonds was a definitive restricted overs bundle and a vital individual from Australia's unbeaten World Cup missions of 2003 and 2007. He leaving an imprint even in his concise Test profession, scoring a Boxing Day Ashes hundred as well as a counter-going after 162* in the discussion baffled Sydney Test of 2008 assisting Australia with holding the Border-Gavaskar Trophy. Brought into the world in Birmingham, Symonds might have played for England however turned down a call-up to the England A side in the wake of stopping people in their tracks in 1995 when he crushed 16 sixes enroute his 254* for Gloucestershire against Glamorgan. His record (mutually held) for the most sixes in a County Championship was bettered barely a week ago by Ben Stokes. The Australia debut in the long run arrived in an ODI at the Gaddafi Stadium in November 1998, however it was at the 2003 World Cup when Symonds genuinely showed up on the worldwide circuit. In Australia's most memorable match of the opposition at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg, Symonds left to bat with the holders reeling at 86 for 4. He continued to dismantle a Pakistan assault including Wasim Akram, Waqar Younis and Shoaib Akhtar to get done with a 125-ball 143*. He would proceed to score five additional hundreds in the 50-over design and wrapped up with a typical contacting almost 40 in spite of prevalently playing as a finisher. The T20 design took off towards the last 50% of his profession however the Queenslander had his portion of the fun in an arrangement that fit his dynamic by and large round game to the T. He was joined by the Deccan Chargers for USD 1.35 million in front of the debut time of the IPL and in just the group's third game, crushed a 53-ball 117* against Shane Warne's Rajasthan Royals. Symonds' Chargers completed rearward in 2008 yet returned astoundingly the next year to lift the prize under countryman Adam Gilchrist's captaincy. Post his retirement from all types of the game in 2012, Symonds moved into broadcasting and was a standard presence in the editorial box during Australia's home season as well as in the Big Bash League.