Chris Cairns in critical condition
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2021 12:32 am
Not good news about one of our best cricketers.
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Cairns is the son of Lance Cairns, the big-hitting cricket cult hero. He took more than 200 test wickets and hit more than 3000 runs, in 62 tests.
He was Wisden player of the year in 2000, a rare world honour for a Kiwi and was three times awarded player of the year by the New Zealand Cricket Almanack.
He once held the world record for most sixes in tests 87, at a rate of nearly 1.5 per test and Richard Hadlee, Daniel Vettori and Chris Martin have taken more test wickets for the Black Caps.
In 2000 he guided New Zealand to the International Cricket Council (ICC) one day international world title, with an outlandish century against India in Kenya.
He hit 102 not out to win the game with just two balls left. It remains New Zealand's only world cricket title.