{"id":212262,"date":"2026-01-01T23:12:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212262\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:12:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:12:06","slug":"damien-martyn-meningitis-cricket-great-adam-gilchrist-sees-positive-signs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/212262\/","title":{"rendered":"Damien Martyn meningitis: Cricket great Adam Gilchrist sees \u2018positive signs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

There had been \u201cso much interest and love\u201d shown towards the 54-year-old, Gilchrist told Fox Cricket.<\/p>\n

\u201cA fine player, terrific fella. I just hope he can continue a recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist, pictured during his playing days, has spoken to media about the health of former teammate Damien Martyn, who is in hospital with meningitis. Photo \/ Reuters<\/p>\n

Gilchrist thanked supporters on behalf of Martyn\u2019s family, including his partner Amanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you to everyone for the heartfelt love and wishes and care for Damien as he\u2019s gone through and continues to go through a challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martyn played 67 tests and 208 one-day Internationals for Australia<\/a> between 1992 and his retirement in 2006.<\/p>\n

\"FormerFormer Australian cricketer Damien Martyn became unwell on Boxing Day and was later diagnosed with meningitis. He remains in hospital. Photo \/ X<\/p>\n

The top order batsman scored 4406 runs in test cricket, giving him an average of 46.4, and including 13 centuries. He totalled a further 5346 runs in ODIs.<\/p>\n

He was also part of the side that won the World Cup in 2003.<\/p>\n

Meningitis is a serious inflammation<\/a> of the protective membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.<\/p>\n

This inflammation can lead to serious complications, including death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There had been \u201cso much interest and love\u201d shown towards the 54-year-old, Gilchrist told Fox Cricket. \u201cA fine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9980,665,2937,651,16558,66405,128825,2740,12632,128827,16773,134,128826,33555,128828,111,139,69,2989,312,29647,5652,213,684],"class_list":["post-212262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adam","tag-around","tag-aussie","tag-close","tag-cricket","tag-cricketer","tag-damien","tag-former","tag-friend","tag-gilchrist","tag-great","tag-health","tag-martyn","tag-meningitis","tag-meningitisstricken","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-positive","tag-says","tag-sees","tag-signs","tag-sports","tag-there"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212262","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=212262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}