Legendary Australian batter Damien Martyn has woken up from an induced coma. A day after Martyn’s family shared a positive update about the member of Australia’s 1999 and 2003 ODI World Cup-winning team,
his former Australian teammate and legendary wicketkeeper-batter Adam Gilchrist confirmed that the former right-handed batter is now able to talk.
According to Fox Sports, Gilchrist revealed to Code Sports that Martyn “is now able to talk and respond to treatment.”
“He has responded extraordinarily well since coming out (of the coma), to the point where his family feels it’s like some sort of miracle,” Gilchrist said on Sunday.
“It has been so positive that they’re hopeful he will be able to move out of the ICU into another part of the hospital, which is representative of what a great recovery it’s been and how quickly it has flipped around.”
Gilchrist revealed that he has spoken with Martyn’s partner, Amanda, throughout the process of his recovery.
“Amanda just really wants to say to everyone she is convinced that the love, goodwill and sense of care that they felt from everybody, via messages and via the coverage in the press, really helped him. They just feel blessed so many people have wanted to support him in his time of need,” he said.
According to Gilchrist, even though Martyn has woken up from the coma, he will remain in hospital to continue receiving the treatment.
“He will remain in hospital and continue to receive treatment, but the turnaround has been miraculous.”
Martyn’s record for Australia
Martyn played 67 Tests and 208 ODIs for Australia from 1992 to 2006. He made his international debut for the Australian team during a Test match against the West Indies at The Gabba in Brisbane on November 27, 1992. He scored 4406 runs in 109 innings of 67 red-ball matches for the Baggy Greens, and in ODIs, he has a total of 5346 runs to his credit.
Martyn played a knock of unbeaten 88 runs from 84 balls against India in the final of the 2003 ODI World Cup and also won the Player Of The Series award in the 2004 Border-Gavaskar Trophy played in India. In that series, he amassed a total of 444 runs for the Australian team.
