{"id":8182,"date":"2025-12-31T04:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:14:07","slug":"damien-martyn-former-australia-batter-in-coma-in-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=8182","title":{"rendered":"Damien Martyn: Former Australia batter in coma in hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former AFL star Brad Hardie, speaking on Perth&#8217;s 6PR radio station, said: &#8220;Damien Martyn, the champ from WA [Western Australia] unfortunately took ill on Boxing Day and currently is residing in a Queensland hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like everybody to have their best wishes and positive thoughts for Marto. Let&#8217;s hope he can pull through, because it&#8217;s really serious.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meningitis is an infection of the protective membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Northamptonshire head coach Darren Lehmann, a former teammate of Martyn&#8217;s, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/darren_lehmann\/status\/2006104707815670094\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">said on X.<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a> &#8220;Lots of love and prayers&#8230;Keep strong and fighting legend.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his career, Martyn scored 4,406 Test runs at an average of 46.37. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was also a prolific one-day batsman, scoring 5,346 runs from 208 matches at an average of 40, with five hundreds and 37 fifties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He scored an unbeaten 88 as Australia beat India in the 2003 World Cup final despite batting with a broken finger, and represented Yorkshire as an overseas player in 2003.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Damien #Martyn #Australia #batter #coma #hospital<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former AFL star Brad Hardie, s&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}