Giddey’s injury blow as All-Star hopes hang in the balance<\/a><\/p>\nThe illness can lead to swelling of the brain and doctors have placed the Test and ODI legend into a coma to treat the condition.<\/p>\n
Former Australian football star Brad Hardie broke the news on his 6PR radio show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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Damien Martyn (left) alongside Adam Gilchrist and Steve Waugh.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
“Damien 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,” Hardie said.<\/p>\n
“I’d like everybody to certainly have their best wishes and positive thoughts for Marto. God give him strength.<\/p>\n
“Let’s hope he can pull through because it’s really serious.”<\/p>\n
Former Australian Test player Rodney Hogg was also on the radio program at the time.<\/p>\n
“We wish him all the best. That’s shocking news,” Hogg said.<\/p>\n
He reportedly went to lie down at home on Boxing Day before falling ill and being rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n
Martyn, 54, is a beloved former player who produced some iconic innings in both the baggy green and in white-ball cricket for Australia.<\/p>\n
He lifted the 1999 and 2003 one-day World Cups with the national team, and was the hero of the tournament final in 2003 with an 88 not out against India, while batting with a broken finger.<\/p>\n
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Damien Martyn of Australia in action during the 2003 World Cup final.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n
He shocked the sport when he suddenly retired midway through the 2006-07 Ashes series, and has kept a relatively low public profile since.<\/p>\n
His slashing cut shot through point became one of the iconic shots of his era.<\/p>\n
Martyn played 67 Test matches and 208 one-day internationals for Australia, as well as four T20 internationals.<\/p>\n
He averaged an impressive 46.37 in Tests and 40.80 in ODIs and was known as one of the most entertaining batters of his era.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iconic Australian cricketing great Damien Martyn is in an induced coma in a Queensland hospital and “in for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-381290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cricket","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381290","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=381290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}