{"id":39134,"date":"2025-12-31T00:15:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/former-australian-test-cricketer-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T00:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T00:15:50","slug":"former-australian-test-cricketer-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/former-australian-test-cricketer-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn in induced coma"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>54-year-old admitted to hospital on Boxing Day with meningitis<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Martyn played 67 Tests for Australia between 1992 and 2006<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn has been admitted to hospital and placed in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis.<\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old \u201cis in for the fight of his life\u201d, according to the former AFL player Brad Hardie, who revealed Martyn\u2019s condition on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/dec\/31\/former-australian-test-cricketer-damien-martyn-in-induced-coma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>54-year-old admitted to hospital on Boxing Day with meningitis Martyn played 67 Tests for Australia between 1992 and 2006 The former Australian Test cricketer Damien Martyn has been admitted to hospital and placed in an induced coma after being diagnosed with meningitis. The 54-year-old \u201cis in for the fight of his life\u201d, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39135,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 13:48:28","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}