Heath Streak Health Update: Legendary Zimbabwean cricketer Heath Streak is extremely ill, and as per reports, only a miracle can save the cricketer. According to the reports in Zimbabwe, Streak is fighting for his life and is in dire need of prayers. Follow Heath Streak Health Updates Live with InsideSport.IN
Streak is widely considered to be Zimbabwe’s greatest bowler and one of their greatest cricketers ever to play the game. He played 65 Tests and 189 one-day internationals for Zimbabwe from 1993 to 2005.
Zimbabwe’s former minister of education, sport, arts, and culture and Streak’s close family friend, David Coltart, took to Twitter to announce the shocking news of the Zimbabwean all-rounder’s illness on Saturday morning.
This is a call to prayer warriors in #Zimbabwe and beyond. Heath Streak, one of the greatest cricketers our nation has ever produced, is extremely ill and needs our prayers. Please could we all be in prayer for him and his family. 🙏
— David Coltart (@DavidColtart) May 13, 2023
Zimbabwean sports journalist Mike Madoda also took to Twitter and claimed that ‘only a miracle will save him now’. His condition is so critical that his family is flying from the United Kingdom to South Africa. Madoda also urged fans to pray for the great.
Heath Streak is on his last legs. Family en route to South Africa from the UK..
Seems only a miracle will save him now.
Prayers up 🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/YtZpcR2BSR
— Mike Madoda (@mikemadoda) May 13, 2023
Currently, further details haven’t emerged yet about what caused his illness, but as per sources, the former Zimbabwe captain and coach has been battling cancer.
Heath Streak Health Update: ICC Suspension in 2021
Streak is currently under suspension from any cricketing activities after he was handed an eight-year ban for being found guilty of breaching the International Cricket Council’s anti-corruption code two years ago, in 2021.
Following his ban, Streak decided to move to his family farm in the Turk Mine area, 60 kilometres north of Bulawayo.
Despite the ban, Streak had always maintained that he was never involved in any kind of match-fixing activity. He was found guilty of five breaches of the ICC’s code of conduct. His charges included serious accusations like revealing inside information for betting purposes and failing to disclose a payment made in bitcoin from a potential corrupter to anti-corruption officials.
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