Tributes flowed on Thursday for former New Zealand cricket captain Martin Crowe, who died after a long battle with cancer. He was 53.
Widely considered New Zealand’s finest batsman, Crowe was initially diagnosed with follicular lymphoma in 2012 before the disease went into remission.
Crowe’s funeral will be held in Auckland on March 11.
After making his first class debut as a teenager, Crowe played the first of his 77 tests against Australia in 1982. He went on to score 5,444 runs at an average of 45.36 with 17 centuries, still a record for the country.
He had a top-score of 299, falling a single short of becoming the first New Zealander to score a test triple century, against Sri Lanka in 1991.
That mark stood until Brendon McCullum scored 302 against India in 2014.
The elegant right-hander also scored 4,704 runs at an average of 38.55 in one-day internationals.
@Agency news.
