{"id":39705,"date":"2025-12-31T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39705"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:41:14","slug":"former-australian-test-cricketer-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma-australia-cricket-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/?p=39705","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn in induced coma | Australia cricket team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn has been admitted to hospital and placed in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 54-year-old \u201cis in for the fight of his life\u201d, according to the former AFL player Brad Hardie, who revealed Martyn\u2019s condition on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cLet\u2019s hope he can pull through because it\u2019s really serious,\u201d Hardie said on 6PR.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Martyn remains in a serious condition after falling ill on Boxing Day and being taken to hospital in Queensland where he was diagnosed with meningitis, according to sources close to the family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Meningitis is inflammation of the membranes that cover the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Former teammate Darren Lehmann urged Martyn to \u201ckeep strong\u201d via X, as the cricket world began to react to the news.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lots of love and prayers sending <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/damienmartyn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@damienmartyn<\/a> way . Keep strong and fighting legend . Love to the family xxx \ud83d\ude4f \u2764\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Darren Lehmann (@darren_lehmann) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/darren_lehmann\/status\/2006104707815670094?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 30, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Adam Gilchrist confirmed his former Test and Western Australia teammate was in hospital in a statement on behalf of the Martyn family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cHe is getting the best of treatment and [Martyn\u2019s partner] Amanda and his family know that a lot of people are sending their prayers and best wishes,\u201d Gilchrist said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Cricket Australia boss, Todd Greenberg, also wished Martyn a quick recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">\u201cI\u2019m saddened to hear of Damien\u2019s illness,\u201d he said. \u201cThe best wishes of everyone at CA and in the wider cricket community are with him at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"dcr-1inf02i\"><\/span><span class=\"dcr-1qvd3m6\">Damien Martyn plays a sweep shot on his way to an unbeaten 101 for Australia against England in 2003. <\/span> Photograph: Leigh Winburn\/EPA<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Martyn is considered one of Australia\u2019s most talented batters, playing 67 Tests and scoring 4,406 Test runs for an average of 46.37 between 1992 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The right-hand batter\u2019s unbeaten 88 in the 2003 World Cup final \u2013 with a broken finger \u2013 helped Australia secure victory over India.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Martin retired suddenly in the middle of the 2005-06 Ashes series in England after struggling in the opening two Tests.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn has been admitted to hospital and placed in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis. The 54-year-old \u201cis in for the fight of his life\u201d, according to the former AFL player Brad Hardie, who revealed Martyn\u2019s condition on Tuesday. \u201cLet\u2019s hope he can pull through because it\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39706,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[346,2059,21483,1144,21479,21480,21482,21481,1905,76],"class_list":{"0":"post-39705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-australian","10":"tag-coma","11":"tag-cricket","12":"tag-cricketer","13":"tag-damien","14":"tag-induced","15":"tag-martyn","16":"tag-team","17":"tag-test"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}