Fragilities of a cricketer's mind
Ayaz Memon writes in Livemint that Peter Roebuck's shocking death may revive the debate on whether cricketers are more prone to suicide than other sportspersons.
Nitin Sundar
25-Feb-2013
Ayaz Memon writes in Livemint that Peter Roebuck's shocking death may revive the debate on whether cricketers are more prone to suicide than other sportspersons.
This is an unusual and chilling premise which seems to fly in the face of common perception. What makes a cricketer so different from a footballer or Formula One driver, one may ask. But documented evidence would suggest that the premise is not entirely unfounded, for suicides in cricket seem to outnumber those in any other sport several times over.
The Guardian's Mike Selvey writes that Roebuck distanced himself from the English media for the wrong reasons.
Michael Henderson, writing for the Spectator, says that Roebuck, who wrote a history of Somerset cricket, was following in one of the county’s macabre traditions.
Nitin Sundar is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo