4 months ago
Damien Martyn is awake and talking, 1 week aft being placed into an induced coma successful a Gold Coast infirmary pinch meningitis. The 54-year-old has been capable to talk pinch friends and family, including ex-teammate Adam Gilchrist, and is said to beryllium overwhelmed pinch nan support offered.
“It’s been an unbelievable move of events successful nan past 48 hours,” Gilchrist said successful a statement.
“He is now capable to talk and respond to treatment. He has responded extraordinarily good since coming retired of nan coma to nan constituent wherever his family feels it’s for illustration immoderate benignant of miracle.
“It has been truthful affirmative that they’re hopeful he will beryllium capable to move retired of nan ICU into different portion of nan infirmary which is typical of what a awesome betterment it’s been and really quickly it has flipped around.”
Martyn, a graceful right-handed batter who has played 67 Tests, fell sick abruptly precocious past period and was rushed to a Gold Coast hospital, wherever he remains.
As precocious arsenic Christmas Eve, Martyn had been posting connected societal media astir nan ongoing Ashes series, earlier falling sick pinch meningitis - an infection and swelling of fluid and membranes astir nan encephalon and spinal cord.
Gilchrist, VVS Laxman and Michael Vaughan were among nan cricket icons to nonstop him their champion wishes.
“He’s successful bully spirits and overwhelmed by nan support. There is still immoderate curen and monitoring to spell but it’s looking positive,” Gilchrist said.
“His woman Amanda conscionable really wants to opportunity to everyone she is convinced that nan love, goodwill and consciousness of attraction that they felt from everybody, via messages and via nan sum successful nan property really helped him,” he said. “They conscionable consciousness blessed truthful galore group person wanted to support him successful his clip [of] need.
“He will stay successful infirmary and proceed to person curen but nan turnaround has been miraculous.’’
Born successful Darwin, Martyn earned a Test debut astatine 21, replacing Dean Jones successful nan 1992/93 location bid against West Indies and was Western Australia’s skipper astatine 23.
He played 208 ODIs, averaging 40.8 and scoring an unbeaten 88 runs arsenic Australia defeated India successful nan last of nan 2003 World Cup.
Martyn retired from Test cricket midway done nan 2006/07 Ashes series, playing his last lucifer astatine nan Adelaide Oval that summer. He dabbled successful commentary during status but has mostly kept retired of nan limelight successful caller years.
