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Andrew Symonds: Former Australian cricketer dies aged 46 in car crash

Former Australian cricketer Andrew Symonds has died at the age of 46 after being involved in a car accident.

The entire round has played 26 Tests, 198 international one-day internationals and 14 Twenty20s in Australia between 1998 and 2009.

A prolific striker, a canny thrower and a fine bowler, Symonds was part of the World Cup with two over 50 overs and an Australian Ashes victory over England in 2006-07.

Born in Birmingham, Symphs played regional cricket in the UK in Kent, Gloucestershire, Lancashire and Surrey.

He holds the combined record of six in the County Championship innings – hitting 16 in the Gloucestershire knockout stages against Glamorgan in 1995 – until Ben Stokes improved his total last week.

His death is another major loss to Australian cricket, following the death of former wicket-taker Rod Marsh and renowned bowler Shane Warne earlier this year.


Symonds is best known for performing well in one-day cricket, where he scored 5,088 runs at a rate of 39.75 and took 133 wickets.

He hit his first two hundred Test at the 2006 Boxing Day Ashes Test, hitting 156 as Australia won by innings and 99 runs.

But his work was not without controversy. In 2009, he was sent home to the World Cup in England for disciplinary reasons, which led to the end of his international career.

On his trip to England in 2005, he was sent off in two one-day internationals after appearing drunk in a match against Bangladesh in Cardiff.

In August 2008, he was repatriated from the Australian one-day series playing Bangladesh in Darwin after missing out on a compelling team meeting to go fishing.

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