Former Australian cricket captain Allan Border has revealed he has been battling Parkinson’s illness for the previous seven years.
The cricket legend revealed the surprising news in The Australian in an article penned by Fox Sports’ govt director Steve Crawley.
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And Border, one of many hardest cricketers ever to play the sport, mentioned he doesn’t need anybody to really feel sorry for him.
“I get the feeling I’m a hell of a lot better off than most,” Border mentioned.
“At the moment I’m not scared, not about the immediate future anyway. I’m 68. If I make 80 that’ll be a miracle.
“No way am I going to get another 100, that’s for sure. I’ll just slip slowly into the west.”
Border, who turned 68 later this month had a outstanding profession, scoring 11,174 runs in 156 Test match, 6524 runs in 273 ODIs and holds the report for essentially the most consecutive matches as captain of a group at 93 Test matches.
He can also be nonetheless the tenth most prolific run scorer in cricket historical past.
After taking up the captaincy throughout a tumultuous time in Australian cricket, Border led Australia to World Cup glory on the 1987 World Cup and within the 1989 Ashes.
Since retirement, Border has been a long-time member of the Fox Sports commentary group.
But in current occasions, some viewers have expressed concern for Border’s well being.
Border additionally has Australian males’s cricket’s highest honour named after him however wasn’t readily available to current Steve Smith with the award in January, along with his spouse Jane taking his place.
Border, who was identified in March 2016, mentioned the neurosurgeon knew instantly when he was the cricket legend that he was coping with the debilitating sickness.
“I walked into the neurosurgeon’s and he said straight up, ‘I’m sorry to tell you but you’ve got Parkinson’s’,” Border mentioned.
“‘Just the way you walked in’, he said, “‘Your arms straight down by your side, hanging not swinging.’ He could just tell.”
Parkinson’s is a neurodegenerative dysfunction that impacts the dopamine-producing (“dopaminergic”) neurons in a particular space of the mind referred to as substantia nigra, based on Parkinson’s Foundation.
It can current as tremors, slowness of motion, limb stiffness and steadiness issues and signs typically develop slowly over years.
While the reason for the sickness is at the moment unknown, there is no such thing as a recognized treatment.
There are a number of well-known folks with Parkinson’s together with Muhammad Ali earlier than his dying, comic Billy Connolly, actor Michael J. Fox, steel singer Ozzy Osbourne and former US president George HW Bush.
Currently greater than 100,000 Australians are identified with Parkinson’s.
Originally printed as Australian cricket legend Allan Border has Parkinson’s illness
Source: www.dailytelegraph.com.au
