Michael Clarke's heartbreak after sad falling out with Andrew Symonds

Michael Clarke has expressed his heartbreak over the death of former great mate Andrew Symonds, who died at age 46 on Saturday night.

Symonds was killed after his car reportedly left the road and rolled over near his home in Hervey Range, about 50km from Townsville in northern Queensland.

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Police said efforts to revive Symonds were unsuccessful after local residents rushed to his aid before paramedics arrived.

With tributes pouring in from around the sporting world, Symonds' former captain Clarke has also expressed his heartache.

Clarke posted a photo on Instagram of himself and Symonds chairing Shane Warne around the SCG after Australia’s 5-0 Ashes triumph in 2007.

The 41-year-old wrote: "Devastated".

Clarke also posted a broken heart emoji in response to a number of posts about Symonds on Twitter.

He also responded to a fan who asked him if he bought Symonds a beer after a freak dismissal while the two were batting together during a one-day international against Sri Lanka.

"I certainly did," Clarke wrote.

Symonds famously told Clarke he owed him a beer as he left the field after the ball ricocheted off Clarke at the non-striker's end and straight into the hands of a fielder.

Michael Clarke and Andrew Symonds' sad falling out

Clarke and Symonds became great mates when they first played for Australia together, however they endured a sad falling out in recent years.

Just last month Symonds spoke about the rift and suggested Clarke may have been jealous of the money he was making in the IPL.

“We became close. When he came into the side I used to bat with him a lot,” Symonds said on the Brett Lee podcast.

“So when he came into the side I really looked after him. That built a bond.

“Matthew Hayden said to me - when the IPL started, I got a pretty penny to go and play in the IPL - he identified it as there was a bit of jealousy that potentially came into the relationship (with Clarke) there.

“Money does funny things. It’s a good thing but it can be a poison and I reckon it may have poisoned our relationship.

“I’ve got enough respect for him to probably not go into detail about what was said.

”My friendship with him is no longer and I’m comfortable with that, but I’m not gonna sit here and start slinging mud.”

Speaking on an episode of 'Cricket Legends' in 2018, Symonds admitted he threw a drink on Clarke during a tour of the West Indies.

“I threw a drink on him and what he said to me put me into a rage,” Symonds said at the time.

“What he said to me was nowhere near accurate and that immediate point is where he lost me and I lost him.

“Our friendship was destroyed in that moment.

“He’d said to me, not in these words, but he’d suggested I was a selfish player and a selfish person. The one thing I don’t consider myself to be is that and that really annoyed me.”

Symonds was hurt when he felt that Clarke hadn't shown him enough support when he was stood down from the ODI side.

“Some former teammates will take his side, and feed his conviction that I let him down and put ambition ahead of mateship,” Clarke previously wrote in his autobiography.

“I would say that he let me down too - that if he had understood mateship as a two-way street, he would have seen that I had to do what was right for the whole team.”

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