South Africa cricket nice Mike Procter significantly sick

South Africa’s swashbuckling cricket all-rounder and former nationwide coach 77-year-old Mike Procter was significantly sick in intensive care on Monday, in line with a news report citing his household.

A good friend of the household, talking on situation of anonymity, confirmed to AFP that Procter was “in a very serious condition” after the report on main news web site News24.

News24, citing an announcement from Procter’s spouse Maryna and two daughters, mentioned that he was being handled within the uMhlanga Hospital close to the japanese metropolis of Durban.

“Mike experienced a complication during routine surgery last week. While recovering in the ICU, he suffered a cardiac incident. He is currently in the ICU working on his recovery,” it mentioned.

Procter’s worldwide enjoying profession with South Africa was reduce brief in 1970 when his nation was excluded from world cricket due to its apartheid authorities.

Before the ban, South Africa received six of the seven Tests by which he performed, all in opposition to Australia.

He was famend primarily as a fearsome quick bowler, taking 41 wickets at a median of 15.02 runs in his seven Tests.

But he was additionally a flamboyant batter and equalled a world batting document when he hit six first-class centuries in successive innings.

After South Africa grew to become a democracy and returned to worldwide cricket, Procter grew to become coach of the worldwide facet and led them to the semifinals of the 1992 Cricket World Cup.

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Procter performed First-Class cricket for 16 years, together with 14 seasons with English county Gloucestershire, 5 of them as captain, the place he achieved legendary standing.

In South Africa, he performed most of his cricket for Natal, the province the place he was born.

His six successive centuries had been made for the then Rhodesia between 1970 and 1971, culminating in a career-best 254 in opposition to Western Province.

He scored 21,082 runs in first-class cricket at a median of 36.92, hitting 47 centuries, and took 1,357 wickets at a median of 19.07 runs.