Heath Streak Death: A wave of mourning spread in the cricket world due to the death of veteran former captain Heath Streak

Former Zimbabwe captain and star all-rounder Heath Streak has passed away at the age of 49. It is being told that Heath Streak was fighting a battle with cancer for a long time. Streak was undergoing treatment for colon and liver cancer in South Africa. With his death, a wave of mourning has run in the cricket world along with Zimbabwe. Many cricketers of the world including R Ashwin have expressed their condolences while paying tribute to him. He played 65 Tests and 189 ODIs for Zimbabwe.

In the year 2000, the Zimbabwe Cricket Board handed him the captaincy of the Test and ODI team. Under Streak's captaincy, Zimbabwe won 4 out of 21 Tests, lost 11, and drew 6 matches. In ODIs, he captained 68 matches, out of which 47 were lost and 18 were won. Following his death, several former players have tweeted and remembered him, including Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.

Let us tell you that in international cricket, Heath Streak has a total of 216 wickets in his name as an all-rounder. He did an amazing job of taking 4 wickets in 16 innings and 5 wickets in 7 innings. At the same time, he also performed brilliantly with the ball in ODI cricket.

Streak took 239 wickets in ODIs at an average of 29.82. He did a wonderful job of taking 4 wickets in an innings 7 times and 5 wickets once in his ODI career. Heath Streak scored 1990 runs in Test cricket and 2943 runs in ODIs with the bat. He scored 1 century and 11 half-centuries in Tests and 13 half-centuries in ODIs.