Will not mean much to most of you but our English and South African friends will know who he is. Lung Cancer at 66, stop smoking people, there are enough ways to die without looking for it.



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Yes RIP Tony, too young to go..

well actually anyone who knows cricket will know of Tony Greig!

RIP

He actually died of a heart attack but yes, he did have lung cancer and smoking is bad.

Heart Attack, yes, brought on from treatment and a recent operation, most likely.

He hadn't been treated/operated on yet. He was going for treatment this week (as far as I understand).

I always liked his anti-establishment attitude which did him no favours when his career imploded, but the stance he took over WSC improved the salaries & contracts of generations of cricketers that followed.

I loved how as a South African he could still get up the Aussies' noses; once a pom always a pom in their eyes!

He delivered the Cowdrey Lecture at Lords last summer and as such he seemed to have been accepted back into the fold. I heard an interview with him on TMS a few days later. He spoke sense and made me realise that whilst the stance that he took over WSC was rooted in money, he was indeed a visionary.

RIP Tony. Deaprted far too soon

The long fella will be missed.
He was a fresh breeze that blew lot of cobwebs out of English cricket.
I'll always remember his "shovel" shots over the slips and his awkward bowling run up...like a drunken giraffe ;^)

We Aussies will miss him too - he's been commentating on our screens since 1980. Won't be the same without his large hat and constant stirring of Bill Lawry and Ian Chappell. He was as much an institution in Australian cricket as anywhere else.