Allan Border fighting Parkinson’s disease

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Sydney: Australian cricket legend Allan Border has revealed that he has Parkinson’s disease – a disease of the nervous system – that affects movement. He also said that it would be ‘a miracle’ if he lived to be 80 years old.

The first player in history to score 11,000 Test runs, Border has revealed that he was diagnosed with the disease in 2016, but kept it hidden from the public eye for seven years.

The 68-year-old told NewsCorp: “I went to the neurosurgeon and he said straight out, ‘I’m sorry to tell you but you’ve got Parkinson’s’ exactly as you came in. Your arms straight out at your sides Are, hanging, not swinging.

He said, “I’m quite a private person and I didn’t want people to feel any kind of sorry for me. You don’t know whether people care or not. But I know there will come a day when people will notice.” ” ,

However, Border’s trusted Fox Sports aide Steve Crowley told him over dinner last week that his good friends had already taken notice.

Border added, “I feel like I’m a lot better than the rest of the guys. Right now I’m not scared, not even about the near future.”

He concluded, “I am 68 years old. If I live to be 80, it will be a miracle. I have a doctor friend and I said it would be a miracle if I lived to be 80, and he said, ‘It would be a miracle.’ I won’t be able to reach 100 by any means, that’s for sure. I’ll just slowly slide westward.”

One of the 55 inaugural inductees into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in 2009, Border went on to have one of the greatest cricketing careers of all time.

After debuting in 1978, the tenacious, headstrong left-hander scored 27 hundreds and 63 half-centuries in the baggy green. He reluctantly took over as Test captain from Kim Hughes in the summer of 1984–85 and is credited with reviving Australia’s fortunes during one of the country’s weakest periods in the history of the game.

Border captained Australia to ODI title victories in the 1987 World Cup in India and Pakistan, before Australia won an even more unexpected Ashes series two years later in England.

He retired in 1994 after a 16-year, 156-Test career with a phenomenal batting average of 50.56, before serving as a respected long-term national selector.

(IANS)

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