Famous cricket journalist and writer Tony Cozier died at his home in Barbados at the age of 75 after his illness. He was admitted to hospital on 3rd May for tests related to infections to neck and legs.
Tony Cozier started to write on cricket in 1958 and despite not playing the game ever he became one of the famous voices in cricketing fraternity. His last column was published on 1st May.
“Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Tony Cozier today,” the ICC said on Twitter. “One of the truly great voices of cricket. A huge loss for the cricket community.”
Over the last fifty years, he had become one of the popular cricket commentators around the world and became professional mediums across the world. He worked in Radio and Television wrote books and did a lot of commentaries. The MCC award Tony Cozier life membership for his services to the game. His contribution will never be forgotten.
ESPNcricinfo’s editor-in-chief, Sambit Bal wrote: “To say Tony loved cricket would be somewhat shallow: cricket was his life, and it was a life of great distinction. He cared for the game deeply and absolutely, and his heart bled for West Indian cricket, which he served as a broadcaster, writer, and conscience-keeper for five decades. His was the most credible voice from the region and, in the last decade-and-a-half, an anguished one. He gave the game as much as he got from it and it can safely be said that he will be impossible to replace, on ESPNcricinfo and elsewhere.”
He wrote the most famous book, West Indies 50 years of test cricket in 1978 and was a keenest watcher of test cricket.