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Roebuck never mended fence with BothamNo one had told Botham.Amidst claims of partying and drug use, the larger than life England all-rounder was removed from the captaincy at Somerset and replaced by Roebuck after a disastrous 1985 season."By the end of the season Caligula's horse could have beaten (Botham) for the captaincy," Roebuck wrote in his autobiography Sometimes I Forgot To Laugh in 2004. "In some opinions wow gold, it did."When Roebuck backed a club committee decision to release West Indies stars Richards and Garner, Botham was furious, reportedly pinning the word Judas to Roebuck's place in the change room before walking out on the side in 1986."The cost has been enormous," Roebuck wrote of the feud."Of course I did not expect to survive such a controversy for long. It was not a career move."Roebuck was found dead wow po, aged 55, on Saturday at a hotel in Cape Town, where he had been covering the Test series between South Africa and Australia.He was born in Oxford in 1956, the son of two school teachers and one of six children.A dour opening batsman, he played 335 first class matches, averaging 37.27, and captained an England one-day side in a humiliating loss to Holland.He held a law degree from Cambridge and coached cricket at exclusive Sydney school Cranbrook.After his playing days he divided his time between homes in Sydney and Pietermaritzberg, South Africa, and became an Australian citizen.Regarded by many as eccentric, Roebuck's insight into cricket and its politics, and his gift for words, were legendary.He divided opinions when he called for Australian skipper Ricky Ponting to be sacked following a racism row in a 2008 Test against India in Sydney.His post-cricket life was also not without controversy.In 2001 he received a three-month suspended sentence after pleading guilty to low level assault for caning three teenage players he was coaching.He vigorously defended his relationship with young cricketers."I cannot waste time on accusers who have never produced a player or a young man worth tuppence, and who never will," he wrote. "I stand by my overall record with young people."
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