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Summary Renowned cricket writer Peter Roebuck was found dead at his hotel in South Africa.
British-born Roebuck, 55, studied law at Cambridge and played 335 first-class matches before making a career writing about the sport, quickly establishing an avid following with his forthright, intelligent prose.He regularly commentated for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and wrote for the nations Fairfax newspapers. Roebuck was covering the South Africa-Australia series when he was found dead in a Newlands hotel, according to the media firms.The circumstances of his death were not immediately clear, but the Sydney Morning Herald said he had reportedly been spoken to by police earlier in the day and had been seen in an agitated state according to the ABC.
