Martin Crowe Test and One Day International (ODI) runs scored for New Zealand. After retiring from playing, Crowe remained involved in cricket as a writer and commentator. He was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2012, but was declared cancer-free the following year. However, the disease returned in 2014, and eventually led to his death in 2016. Crowe was born in Henderson, a suburb of Auckland, to a family of cricketers. His father, Dave Crowe, played first-class cricket for Canterbury and Wellington and his older brother, Jeff Crowe, played Test cricket. One of the brothers' first cousins is actor Russell Crowe. In 1968, Martin
Eyre Evans Crowe Crowe A.R.A. (1824–1910), Sir Joseph Archer Crowe (1825–1896), and George Crowe (1840–1889), husband of the actress Kate Bateman. Eyre Evans Crowe Eyre Evans Crowe (1799 – February 25, 1868) was an English journalist and historian. The son of an Army officer of Anglo-Irish ancestry, Crowe was born in Southampton and educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In the 1820s he turned to writing novels: V"ittoria Colonna, To-Day in Ireland" (1825), "The English in Italy" (1825), (1828), "Yesterday in Ireland" (1829), and "The English at Home" (1830). His work appeared as well in "Blackwood's Magazine". He commenced his work as a writer