{"id":114387,"date":"2021-08-10T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T07:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114387"},"modified":"2021-08-10T09:00:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T09:00:34","slug":"new-zealand-cricket-great-on-life-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114387","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand cricket great on life support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Black Caps all-rounder Chris Cairns is reportedly on life support in Australia.<\/p>\n<p>It is understood Cairns suffered a major medical emergency &#8211; an aortic dissection &#8211; in Canberra last week.<\/p>\n<p>Cairns is reportedly set to be transferred to a specialist hospital in Sydney imminently.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"36b12f6d-9525-4027-8544-4cfa3220168b\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/36b12f6d-9525-4027-8544-4cfa3220168b\" alt=\"Chris Cairns.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The former Kiwi cricketer has reportedly undergone several operations since he was admitted to hospital but has not responded to treatment as hoped.<\/p>\n<p>Cairns is the son of Black Caps legend Lance Cairns.<\/p>\n<p>The 51-year-old played 62 Test matches, 215 one day internationals and two T20s for New Zealand between 1989 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewgourdie\/status\/1424987330104860676?s=21\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/andrewgourdie\/status\/1424987330104860676?s=21<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Former Black Caps all-rounder Chris Cairns is reportedly on life support in Australia. It is understood Cairns suffered a major medical emergency &#8211; an aortic <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=114387\" title=\"New Zealand cricket great on life support\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114387"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":114389,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114387\/revisions\/114389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}