The acclaimed cricket writer Peter Roebuck has been found dead at a hotel in Newlands, South Africa.

Roebuck received a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to common assault for punishing with a cane or bat three young South African cricketers he had been coaching. ''Obviously I misjudged the mood and that was my mistake and my responsibility and I accept that,''

But he perhaps found his life's work in South Africa, where he created a community of 40 underprivileged South African and Zimbabwean boys and spent pretty much every cent he earned putting them through school. He talked endlessly about them. They were on his mind at the end.

But don't you feel kind of skeptical that a 26yo bloke would be 'sexually assaulted' by a 50-odd year old?