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Former New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns in ‘serious’ condition

  • 11 Aug 2021
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New Zealand Chris Cairns celebrates bowling out Australian opening batsman Michael Slater at Eden Park in Auckland. AFP

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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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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.

 

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