{"id":688818,"date":"2026-07-13T06:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688818\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:54:09","slug":"luton-cricket-bowler-reunites-with-cpr-angel-who-saved-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/688818\/","title":{"rendered":"Luton cricket bowler reunites with CPR &#8216;angel&#8217; who saved his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A cricketer who survived a cardiac arrest has hailed the woman who helped keep him alive with CPR as &#8220;a real angel&#8221; after they reunited on the pitch where he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Muhammad Akhtar Hussain, 40, from Luton, was feeling unwell with shoulder pain while playing for Bushey Cricket Club at the Chipperfield Clarendon Cricket Club in Hertfordshire on 3 May 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During a break, the bowler collapsed, and nearby Laura Anderson gave him CPR for 29 minutes until paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The pair reunited on the same pitch about a year later, where Hussain said he got &#8220;very emotional&#8221; and Anderson said she would &#8220;cherish forever&#8221; the hug they shared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cricketer who survived a cardiac arrest has hailed the woman who helped keep him alive with CPR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-688818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}