The cricket world continues to be in shock after former Australian all-rounder Andrew Symonds handed away on Saturday night time. The 46-year-old was concerned in a tragic car accident exterior Townsville, the place the Queenslander lived.
While Queensland Police and authorities are discovering the actual motive behind the car crash, an area resident, who discovered Symonds in his car about two minutes after the accident, has revealed what exactly happened.
The witness, Waylon Townson, talked about that he tried to revive the cricketer, however there was nothing he may do. Townson advised the Nine Network that he had heard the crash and was first on the scene. Townson stated he tried to drag Symonds out of his car and did CPR, however the Western Australian was unresponsive.
“He was stuck in there, so I tried to pull him out. (I) started doing CPR and checked his pulse, but I didn’t get much response from him,” the witness advised 9News.
Symonds was among the best white-ball cricketers world cricket has seen. He featured within the golden period of Australian cricket and performed an enormous position behind Australia’s dominance within the limited-overs format. Symonds, who was popularly generally known as ‘Roy’, made his worldwide debut in 1998 in an ODI towards Pakistan.
The Birmingham-born by no means seemed again and went on to play 198 ODIs, scoring 5088 runs with six centuries and 30 fifties. The right-armer additionally picked up 133 wickets within the 50-over format, with 5/18 being his greatest efficiency. Symonds performed 26 Tests and 14 T20Is as properly, by which he made 1462 and 337 runs, respectively. He bagged 24 scalps within the red-ball format and eight in T20Is.