His teammate Henry Olonga initially had let the world know by posting on X, previously referred to as Twitter, that Streak handed away following his lengthy battle with most cancers. However he later clarified that Streak may be very a lot alive.
“Unhappy information coming via that Heath Streak has crossed to the opposite aspect. RIP @ZimCricketv legend. The best all rounder we produced. It was a pleasure enjoying with you. See you on the opposite aspect when my bowling spell involves an finish…,” Olonga posted.
Olonga then in his new submit mentioned that rumours of Streak’s demise had been vastly exaggerated and that he had heard from him.
“I can verify that rumours of the demise of Heath Streak have been vastly exaggerated. I simply heard from him. The third umpire has referred to as him again. He’s very a lot alive of us,” Olonga sain in a submit.
He additionally shared a screenshot of his latest dialog with Streak on WhatsApp.
On Saturday, Olonga felt excessive sorry and wrote an extended apology notice over the false information that Streak, his former long-time teammate-cum-friend of 39 years, had handed away.
“In any case I used to be knowledgeable that Heath had taken a flip for the more severe. We had been inspired to write down variety phrases for his eulogy. So it appeared imminent. I can’t go into an excessive amount of element how the mis-communication occurred however relaxation assured I heard the story first on Fb like everybody else,” wrote Olonga in his Fb submit.
“I did instantly textual content Heath and Nadine to confirm. It was some time earlier than they might reply because it was late at evening. I texted a number of shut cricket colleagues who know the household effectively they usually confirmed it was true. I did ask pointed inquiries to confirm however they had been satisfied.”
“In any case I had solely heard from Heath the day earlier than so it appeared sort of sudden. However I really was devastated as I genuinely believed he was gone. And all of the emotion I felt I’m certain those that encountered the story felt it too,” he added.
Olonga additional wrote he received a message from Streak later, asking him to ‘reverse the choice’. “Clearly I’m extraordinarily sorry that I took it as gospel. I then positioned my very own tributes which appeared to assemble numerous traction ( amongst many tributes on the market ) solely to get a textual content from Heath a number of hours later wherein he requested me to reverse the choice. ( He has all the time had an important sense of humour).”
“I then needed to again monitor and try to repair the error that sadly had gone world. However how can it get mounted simply nowadays? So I retracted as finest I might. I in fact profusely apologised to the Streaks after the clanger. They didn’t want this.”
“In any case, I hope you perceive the context from time to time admire your forgiveness in my opinion on this unlucky affair. I’m very unhappy about it. It was extraordinarily heartwarming to see how a lot love there’s on the market for our champion. Maybe a silver lining,” he added.
