For the third time in nearly three months, the cricket world has been left shattered.
Non-cricket fans knew who Shane Warne was. He was larger than the sport itself.
For cricket fans, Andrew Symonds was something different. He was cut from a different cloth. A throwback to a time before sports science.
He was the every man’s cricketer. Salt of the earth.
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In the modern world where “high performance” is an obsession, ‘Roy’ just wanted to play the game. And he was darn good at it.
There was a time when Australians thought Symonds should be nowhere…
