Former captain of Somerset cricket commentator Peter Roebuck changed has been found dead after apparently taking his own life.
Former opening batsman, 55, lived in a hotel in Newlands, Australia Test series for the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
Police confirmed the incident was being treated as suicide, following reports that fall off the floor six Roebuck until his death in the Southern Sun hotel in Cape Town, near the Newlands cricket ground.
Captain Frederick van Wyk Cape Town police said: "the incident took place last night at about 9: 15 am in a hotel in Claremont where a 55-year-old citizen of the United Kingdom, who works as a commentator on Australia, committed suicide."
Roebuck, who was born in Oxford, the captain of Somerset opened hit for most of the 1980s and passed 1000 runs nine season 12.