Join now and get your first month for just $1.<\/a><\/p>\nBrad Hardie, the 1985 Brownlow Medallist, first announced Martyn\u2019s plight on Perth\u2019s 6PR radio, without revealing the specific illness.<\/p>\n
\u201cDamien Martyn, the champ from WA, fantastic batsman \u2026 unfortunately took ill on Boxing Day and currently is residing in a Queensland hospital and he is in for the fight of his life,\u201d Hardie said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like everybody to certainly have their best wishes and positive thoughts for Marto. God give him strength.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s hope he can pull through because it\u2019s really serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Australian Test cricketer Rodney Hogg added: \u201cWe wish him all the best. That\u2019s shocking news.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former teammate Darren Lehmann sent a message of support on X, writing: \u201cLots of love and prayers sending @damienmartyn way. Keep strong and fighting legend. Love to the family xxx.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damien Martyn wearing his Test baggy green in 2001.Source: News Limited<\/p>\n
Martyn was born in Darwin, grew up in Perth and starred playing for Western Australia. He now lives on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n
He was an elegant right-hand batter who made 4,406 Test runs for Australia at an average of 46.37, with a best of 165 among 13 centuries.<\/p>\n
He also played 208 ODIs for 5,346 runs at 40.90, with a highest score of 144* from five tons.<\/p>\n
Though he has dabbled in commentary, he has reportedly kept his distance from cricket in retirement, rarely attending functions.<\/p>\n
He made a startling exit from cricket midway through the 2006\/07 Ashes, retiring abruptly after the second Test in Adelaide \u2014 one of Australia\u2019s most famous wins over England.<\/p>\n
He has never lost his passion for cricket. On Christmas Eve, he replied on X to a picture of the MCG lying in wait for the Boxing Day Test, saying: \u201cIf the old brigade could play again then this would be it. Boxing Day test match. What a cauldron.\u201d<\/p>\n
He also had a crack at strife-torn England before they rallied to win in Melbourne: \u201cNow it\u2019s all the beer plus the Noosa beach why England lost. Load of rubbish. Got to love media click bait. Australia are just better.\u201d<\/p>\n
Damien Martyn, Steve Waugh and Michael Clarke pictured together in 2015.Source: News Corp Australia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian cricket great Damien Martyn was rushed to hospital after falling ill on Boxing Day and it reportedly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[64,63,689,35086,60158,60167,205111,18762,19524,5249,205112,1208,2057,205118,205116,205117,12548,2485,47483,3583,8867,677,46,205114,701,205113,205115,85,51141,3439],"class_list":["post-381253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-cricket","tag-baggy-green","tag-beau-webster","tag-brisbane-hospital","tag-cameron-green","tag-damien-martyn","tag-darwin","tag-elegant-right-hand-batter","tag-england","tag-europe","tag-falling-ill","tag-famous-wins","tag-fantastic-batsman","tag-fox-cricket","tag-gold-coast","tag-michael-clarke","tag-northern-europe","tag-northern-territory","tag-oceania","tag-perth","tag-positive-thoughts","tag-queensland","tag-queensland-hospital","tag-rodney-hogg","tag-sports","tag-steve-waugh","tag-western-australia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381253","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=381253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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