Former New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns in ‘serious’ condition
- 11 Aug 2021
Gulf Today Report
Former New Zealand cricket all-rounder Chris Cairns is on life support at a hospital in Australia, New Zealand media reported on Tuesday.
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The cricket legend was fighting for his life in a Sydney hospital on Wednesday, with his wife speaking out for the first time about their "upsetting" ordeal.
Former New Zealand cricketer Chris Cairns gives a news conference at Eden Park in Auckland. File/Reuters
Cairns, 51, had undergone several operations after suffering a heart problem but had not responded to treatment as hoped, Newshub reported.
The world's top all-rounder in the early 2000s is being treated at a specialist unit after a serious cardiac problem emerged last week.
"He's in a serious but stable condition in intensive care," a spokesman for St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney told a media reporter.
New Zealand's players' union was unable to provide immediate comment.