Andrew Symonds' performances always changed the course of the game

Symonds was to that ridiculously talented Australian cricket team in the 2000s. The first is from an ODI in Melbourne vs West Indies in 2001. His victim was Laurie Williams, who tragically also died in a car crash, like Symonds did in Townsville, Queensland late on Saturday. Williams died in Jamaica in 2002, aged 33. Symonds was 46. In the video, Williams drives Nathan Bracken towards long-on and starts running. But Symonds swoops in from mid-wicket, stops the ball, spins while still parked on his buttocks, and coolly throws down the stumps at the striker's end. All this happens in about one-and-a-half seconds.

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The batsman, stranded mid-pitch, marvels in awe at the coordinated skills of the square-shouldered Queenslander, whose death in the wee hours of Sunday morning left the cricket fraternity, still reeling from the aftershock of Shane Warne's passing, in mourning again. The second piece of magical fielding, involving sharp shooting and predatory skills, is from the 2007 World T20 semifinal in Durban. The batsman is Robin Uthappa, who shells a cover drive off Mitchell Johnson but finds Symonds in the way.

The force of the stroke causes the ball to burst through his wickedly strong and large palms and travels a couple of metres behind him. Uthappa calls Yuvraj Singh for a single. Symonds sprints back, locates the ball but doesn't find wicketkeeper