Brendon McCullum pays tribute as he fights for the life of Chris Cairns. Cricket News – Times of India

Wellington: black caps Great Brendan McCullum Put aside past differences to lead on Wednesday’s messages of support for the former New Zealand star Chris Cairns, which one for his life. I am fighting Sydney Hospital.
Cairns, 51, one of the world’s top all-rounders in the early 2000s, was transferred to a specialist unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Canberra last week after a serious heart problem failed to respond to treatment.

“I don’t want anything to do with him,” McCullum once said after his former teammate was acquitted of perjury charges related to match-fixing charges in 2015.
McCullum was the prosecution’s star witness in the high-profile trial, but said on Wednesday that their “relationship is unimportant” in the current situation.
“Obviously this is a difficult topic to talk about. We haven’t seen each other in quite a long time,” McCullum said on his radio show.
“We are looking at how good a cricketer he was when the news broke and what he did for the game and New Zealand Cricket Even throughout his career.”
Cairns was reported to be on life support following an aortic dissection, a tear in the inner lining of the body’s main artery.
“He is in serious but stable condition in intensive care,” a St Vincent’s hospital spokesman told AFP.
Cairns’ mother Sue is in Canberra but is unable to visit her Sydney hospital bed due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in Australia.
“The whole point of our relationship is unimportant, the fact that Chris Lance and Sue also have father and son,” McCullum said.
“This kind of tragedy has already happened in his life and lost Chris’s sister a long time ago.
“This is a really difficult time for those people and I know the cricket community and everyone who supports the Cairns family will be suffering right now. Today my family and I are thinking of those who are suffering.”
New Zealand Cricket has refused to comment on Cairns’ illness out of respect for family privacy.
Social media was flooded with messages of support, including from the Indian batting VVS Laxman And this Nottinghamshire Cricket Club Where Cairns also played.

England’s Barmy Army Supporters Club tweeted: “Many congratulations to @BlacksCaps legend Chris Cairns on life support in Australia. Pull through the champ.”

Cairns, whose father Lance also played for New Zealand, once held the record for most sixes in Test cricket – a record now held by McCullum – and was the sixth player to achieve a 200-wicket double all-rounder. 3,000 runs.