Heath Streak's death was first reported by Henry Olanga, who has now re-tweeted to confirm that he is healthy.

The news of the death of the great Zimbabwean cricketer Heath Streak is fake. Heath Streak's former teammate Henry Olanga confirmed the news. He posted on social media and termed this news as fake.

UPDATE: Former Zimbabwe cricketer Heath Streak's teammate Henry Olonga says that Heath Streak is alive and rumors of his demise "greatly exaggerated"

Note: Tweet mentioning Heath Streak's deleted until further clarity is received. A number of Zimbabwean cricketers including… pic.twitter.com/4C8DXTz6oW

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Henry Olanga gave this information

The news of death of former Zimbabwe team captain and veteran all-rounder Heath Streak at the age of 49 due to cancer went viral on social media this morning. After the news sent shockwaves across the cricketing world, now his former teammate Henry Olanga, who reported Streak's death, has now claimed that Streak is alive and has confirmed it by messaging him himself. Olanga wrote in his tweet that I can confirm that the news of Heath Streak's death spread very quickly. I just spoke to him. The third umpire has called it back. He is fully alive.

Heath's streak has taken a total of 216 wickets in Test cricket

Playing as an all-rounder in international cricket, Heath Streak has taken a total of 216 wickets in Test cricket. Meanwhile, he has taken 4 wickets in an innings 16 times and 5 wickets in an innings 7 times. Apart from this, Heath's streak with the ball has also been seen in ODI cricket. Heath's streak has taken 239 wickets at an average of 29.82 in the 50-over format. Meanwhile, he has taken 4 wickets in one innings and 5 wickets once in his ODI career. If we look at Heath's streak with the bat, he has 1990 runs in Tests and 2943 runs in ODIs. Streak has scored 1 century and 11 fifties in Tests. Apart from this, he has scored 13 fifties in ODIs.

The captaincy record was something like this

The Zimbabwe Cricket Board appointed Heath Streak as the captain of both the Test and ODI teams in the year 2000. Under Streak's captaincy, Zimbabwe won 4 out of 21 Test matches while losing 11. And 6 matches ended in draws. Streak captained the team in 68 matches in ODIs and lost 47 of them, the team won 18 matches. Following Streak's demise, many former and current players have remembered him through tweets, including Indian off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin.