(AFP Photo) MELBOURNE: Ed Cowan, who Wednesday won a place in Australia's squad for the opening Test against India, says his mentor and celebrated cricket writer Peter Roebuck's death was a trigger for him to start scoring runs, leading to his …
Dec 052011
THE family of the late cricket journalist Peter Roebuck have retained a British barrister to ''find the truth'' surrounding his death. Roebuck, 55, died after falling from the sixth floor window of his hotel room in Cape Town, South Afr…
Dec 052011
Cricket writer and commentator Peter Roebuck, who is believed to have committed suicide in Cape Town. Source: Supplied THE family of cricket journalist Peter Roebuck does not believe he committed suicide and has sent a lawyer to South Africa to …See …
Nov 302011
The game of cricket is a great leveler and even the greats of the game are not spared, writes ESPNSTAR.com's columnist R Mohan. By R. Mohan The late and lamented Peter Roebuck used to compare Test cricket to the seductive temptress who would bestow…
Nov 212011
NO VERDICT: Last week cricket pundit Peter Roebuck threw himself out of a sixth-floor room at his hotel (below) rather than answer a charge of alleged sexual assault. It's a week since international cricket commentator Peter Roebuck flung himself o…
Nov 202011
With fresh revelations flying out from Cape Town after Peter Roebuck's 'suicide,' we must not forget what the deceased writer owed to cricket. By Himanshu Shekhar Believe it or not but South African police's inquest into the death of no…
Echoing through the sticky wickets and LBWs of the ABC's cricket commentary from South Africa last week has been the tragic absence of one of their own Peter Roebuck. The Fairfax and ABC cricket commentator committed suicide in Cape Town eight days…
When Roebuck plunged six storeys to his death about 9.15pm last Saturday after a sexual assault complaint levelled against the acclaimed cricket journalist by 26-year-old Zimbabwean man Itai Gondo, it sparked more than a police investigation. …See al…
LBW Trust director Mike Coward is confident the organisation will not collapse following the death of esteemed cricket journalist Peter Roebuck. Roebuck, who helped established the Learning for a Better World Trust after a visit to a Zimbabwean …See …
Cricket journalist Peter Roebuck fell six stories to his death from a Cape Town hotel room. Picture: Abc Source: AdelaideNow UPDATE 10.30pm: PETER Roebuck launched a sickening sexual assault against a young refugee by pinning him to a bed in his Cape ….
