{"id":664614,"date":"2025-12-31T11:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664614\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:56:14","slug":"damien-martyn-former-australia-batter-in-coma-in-hospital-with-meningitis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/664614\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Martyn: Former Australia batter in coma in hospital with meningitis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former Australian Rules football star Brad Hardie, speaking on Perth&#8217;s 6PR radio station, said: &#8220;Damien Martyn, the champ from WA [Western Australia] unfortunately took ill on Boxing Day and currently is residing in a Queensland hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like everybody to have their best wishes and positive thoughts for Marto. Let&#8217;s hope he can pull through, because it&#8217;s really serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann, a former Australia team-mate, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darren_lehmann\/status\/2006104707815670094\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">wrote on X:, external<\/a> &#8220;Lots of love and prayers&#8230;Keep strong and fighting legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his career, Martyn scored 4,406 Test runs at an average of 46.37. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also a prolific one-day international batter, scoring 5,346 runs from 208 matches at an average of 40, with five hundreds and 37 fifties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored an unbeaten 88 as Australia beat India in the 2003 World Cup final despite batting with a broken finger, and represented Yorkshire as an overseas player in 2003.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. Former Australian Rules&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101],"tags":[1406,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-664614","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-cricket","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115814058323875639","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}