Ask for technichal assistance Rosetta Stone Store in playing the multimedia available on this site, or Provide feedback to the multimedia producers. Return to video Video feedback Thank you. . Roebuck 'a huge cricket intellect' Veteran sports commentator and one-time ABC colleague, Tim Lane pays tribute to Peter Roebuck. Video feedback Video settings PETER ROEBUCK, regarded by many as the finest cricket writer of his generation, fell to his death from a hotel window in Cape Town on Saturday night after being questioned by police about an alleged sexual assault. Roebuck, who had written on cricket for the Herald since 1984, had been covering the Australian tour of South Africa for the paper. He was also commentating on the tour for ABC radio. A Cape Town detective and a uniformed police officer from the sexual crimes unit began speaking with Rosetta Stone Language Roebuck, 55, in his room at the Southern Sun Hotel, Newlands, about 9pm. Advertisement: Story continues below The Google street view of the Southern Sun, Newlands hotel in Cape Town where cricket writer Peter Roebuck died. Roebuck, who was agitated, asked a fellow cricket journalist for help. ''Can you come down to my room quickly? I've got a problem,'' he said. He asked for help to find a lawyer and for contact to be made with the students he helped to house in Pietermaritzburg, near Durban. Minutes later Roebuck fell to his death from a window. It is believed only the uniformed officer was in the room. Paramedics rushed to the hotel but Roebuck was pronounced dead. Police established a crime scene and took personal items from the room, including a laptop. Captain Frederick van Wyk of Cape Town police said an inquest into the death had been launched. ''An incident occurred last night at about 9.15pm at a hotel in Claremont where a 55-year-old British citizen, who worked as an Australian commentator, committed suicide,'' he said. Click for more photos Peter Roebuck - a stroll through the years A thoughtful Peter Roebuck. Roebuck was a familiar face at Test cricket venues around the globe. Photo: Daily Mail Roebuck turned to writing after a long first-class career in which he captained Somerset in the 1980s. He had a house in South Africa and one in Bondi. In 2001 Roebuck received a suspended jail sentence after pleading guilty to common assault for punishing with a cane or Rosetta Stone Portuguese 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,'' he said.