MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Former New Zealand cricket all-rounder Chris Cairns is on life support at a Canberra hospital after recently collapsing with a heart problem, New Zealand media reported on Tuesday. Cairns, 51, had undergone several operations after suffering an aortic dissection but had not responded to treatment as hoped, Newshub reported. A New Zealand Cricket spokesman said the board was respecting Cairns’ right to privacy and declined to comment on the situation. After retiring from international cricket, Cairns was the subject of allegations of matchfixing in India as captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the defunct Indian Cricket League (ICL) in 2008. In 2015, he was cleared of perjury in relation to the libel case after being charged by Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service.

Source: MetroXpress August 10, 2021 09:48 UTC