ABC ‘greatly saddened’ by Peter Roebuck death
The ABC has issued a statement following the sudden death of cricket reporter Peter Roebuck, who was covering Australia’s test series in South Africa for the ABC and The Sydney Morning Herald.
ABC managing director Mark Scott said in a statement:
All at the ABC are greatly saddened at the news of the death of Peter Roebuck in South Africa.
Peter was an indispensible part of the ABC’s summer of cricket, providing commentary that was wise and insightful about the game he played and loved. He was a scholar of cricket and he would speak and write of it with great knowledge and passion.
i am truly shocked, my sympathies go to everyone close to Peter.
To me Peter kept the Aussies in check and our feet on the ground
when we were going through that dominating period over the 90’s
and noughties’ one of the best commentators in the world without
doubt. I’ll miss him.
Desperately sad … awful. What a waste….
I was absolutely shocked when I first heard the news of Peter Roebuck’s death. He’d only been on ABC News 24 a number of weeks ago previewing the Aussie’s tour of South Africa.
I’ve been listening to ABC Grandstand’s coverage of the cricket as long as I have been a fan of the game and that has been since I was a small child. I’ve come to know Peter’s voice and his wonderful analysis of the game. When the game was going nowhere he and the commentary team would talk about some topic with intellectual rigor and it made for wonderful radio.
Peter’s death will leave a gaping hole in cricket and it’s coverage.
My summers won’t be the same without him.