Australia’s cricket community is rallying around Damien Martyn after the cricket great was hospitalised suddenly in Brisbane.<\/p>\n
The 54-year-old former right-hand batter has fallen ill in recent days, with Nine Newspapers reporting he is in an induced coma amid a bout of meningitis.<\/p>\n
“Lots of love and prayers sending @damienmartyn way. Keep strong and fighting legend. Love to the family,” former test teammate Darren Lehmann wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n
Speaking on 6PR radio, former test bowler Rodney Hogg called Martyn’s hospitalisation “shocking news”.<\/p>\n
“We wish him all the best,” the former Australian paceman said.<\/p>\n
Veteran sports broadcaster Jim Wilson was among others to send Martyn their best on social media.<\/p>\n
Martyn’s seemingly effortless strokeplay was his calling card, and he averaged 46.37 with the bat across 67 tests for Australia.<\/p>\n
Born in Darwin, the right-hander earned a test debut at 21 replacing the late Dean Jones in the 1992\/93 home series against West Indies and was Western Australia’s captain at 23.<\/p>\n
His high score of 165 came against New Zealand in 2005, one of 13 test centuries Martyn made in the baggy green.<\/p>\n
Martyn played his final test at Adelaide Oval in the 2006\/07 Ashes series before dabbling in commentary.<\/p>\n
Martyn played 208 ODIs, averaging 40.8.<\/p>\n
He was part of Australia’s squad that won the 2003 World Cup, scoring an unbeaten 88 in the final against India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia’s cricket community is rallying around Damien Martyn after the cricket great was hospitalised suddenly in Brisbane. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-209586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}