{"id":33861,"date":"2025-12-31T03:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=33861"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T03:04:28","slug":"australian-cricket-great-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=33861","title":{"rendered":"Australian cricket great Damien Martyn &#8216;in induced coma&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Former Australian Test batsman Damien Martyn has been rushed to hospital in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis, media reports said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old, who played 67 Tests between 1992 and 2006 and 208 one-day internationals, was admitted on Boxing Day last week after falling ill while lying down.<\/p>\n<p>Australian media said he was being treated for meningitis, which can be deadly.<\/p>\n<p>Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He is getting the best of treatment,&#8221; Test great and close friend Adam Gilchrist told The Australian newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Amanda (his partner) and his family know that a lot of people are sending their prayers and best wishes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former Australian coach Darren Lehmann, a long-time teammate of Martyn&#8217;s, also sent support.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Lots of love and prayers&#8230; keep strong and fighting, legend. Love to the family,&#8221; he wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p>Known as one of the game&#8217;s great strokemakers, Martyn became a key figure in Steve Waugh&#8217;s all-powerful Australian side, hitting 13 centuries and averaging 46.37.<\/p>\n<p>He was also part of the Australia team that won the 2003 ODI World Cup, cracking 88 not-out in the final against India in a match-winning partnership with Ricky Ponting.<\/p>\n<p>He retired in 2006 during the Ashes series and had kept a low-profile since.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Australian Test batsman Damien Martyn has been rushed to hospital in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis, media reports said Wednesday. The 54-year-old, who played 67 Tests between 1992 and 2006 and 208 one-day internationals, was admitted on Boxing Day last week after falling ill while lying down. Australian media said he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}