{"id":216899,"date":"2026-01-04T22:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216899\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T22:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T22:05:08","slug":"australian-cricketing-great-damien-martyn-wakes-from-coma-as-family-praises-miracle-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/216899\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian cricketing great Damien Martyn wakes from coma as family praises \u2018miracle\u2019 recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"
\u201cIt has been so positive that they\u2019re hopeful he will be able to move out of the ICU into another part of the hospital which is representative of what a great recovery it\u2019s been and how quickly it has flipped around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meningitis, an inflammation around the brain and spinal cord, can prove fatal. <\/p>\n
Former teammate Adam Gilchrist said Damien Martyn is having an “unbelievable” recovery after waking from his coma. Photo \/ Hamish Blair, Getty Images<\/p>\n
Gilchrist described the 2003 ODI World Cup winner\u2019s improvement as \u201cunbelievable\u201d, sharing Martyn\u2019s partner\u2019s belief the public support had contributed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAmanda just really wants to say to everyone she is convinced that the love, goodwill, and sense of care that they felt from everybody, via messages and via the coverage in the press really helped him.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a statement to the Courier Mail, Martyn\u2019s family personally expressed their gratitude for the \u201cincredible outpouring of support\u201d from the cricketing community.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also want to express our deepest appreciation to the medical team at the Gold Coast University Hospital who have been nothing short of amazing throughout this challenging time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Darwin-born batter played 67 Tests for Australia from 1992 to 2006, scoring 4406 runs including 13 centuries, according to Sky Sports.<\/p>\n
He played for Western Australia, then the national team, before relocating to the Gold Coast following his retirement from international cricket during the 2006 – 2007 Ashes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt has been so positive that they\u2019re hopeful he will be able to move out of the ICU…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[806,1135,94411,66405,130917,128825,796,15969,2109,5504,71,16773,3012,2241,94410,1362,128826,33555,33321,58807,111,139,69,13031,1881,13744,2249,213,46345,10108,102,8211],"class_list":["post-216899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-as","tag-australian","tag-coma","tag-cricketer","tag-cricketing","tag-damien","tag-diagnosis","tag-discharged","tag-family","tag-following","tag-from","tag-great","tag-hopes","tag-hospital","tag-induced","tag-made","tag-martyn","tag-meningitis","tag-miracle","tag-miraculous","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-praises","tag-recovery","tag-shock","tag-soon","tag-sports","tag-turnaround","tag-wakes","tag-with","tag-woken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216899","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=216899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}