{"id":162474,"date":"2025-09-23T03:18:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162474\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T03:18:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T03:18:08","slug":"australian-great-brad-haddin-recovering-after-heart-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/162474\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian great Brad Haddin recovering after heart surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian cricket great Brad Haddin is at home recovering after heart surgery and also delivered a funny anecdote about the day he was released from hospital.<\/p>\n

The former Test vice-captain confirmed the news via social media on Monday afternoon via the Willow Talk podcast account.<\/p>\n

Haddin, who is a regular on the show alongside Adam Peacock and Alyssa Healy, had been notably absent in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

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The 47-year-old has since explained why he wasn’t appearing and thanked the staff at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.<\/p>\n

“I went in and got valve replacement surgery on my heart,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I’ve had about a week in hospital, a couple days in ICU, a few days on the ward. The surgeons and the team at RPA were absolutely outstanding.”<\/p>\n

However, clearly showing he hadn’t lost his sense of humour, Haddin admitted that the timing of getting discharged from hospital was less than ideal.<\/p>\n

The avid Canberra Raiders fan went home from the Sydney hospital on the same day as his side’s dramatic golden-point loss against the Broncos.<\/p>\n

“The day they discharged me I don’t think we really got that right, because it was the Raiders-Broncos game,” Haddin said.<\/p>\n

“[When you are] recovering from heart surgery, you’ve got to keep a low profile and I’ve got six weeks at home now to not do too much, that didn’t help.<\/p>\n

“But I look at it the other way – it certainly showed the surgery was a success. Thanks to all the well-wishers, things are going to plan.”<\/p>\n

Haddin was a staple of the Australian set-up for many years and amassed 6790 runs across all three formats of the international game, notching six centuries in total.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cricket great Brad Haddin is at home recovering after heart surgery and also delivered a funny anecdote…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-162474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}