Former England cricket captain Tony Greig has been diagnosed with a form of lung cancer and will undergo medical tests later this week to determine at what stage the disease is at the moment.
The 66-year-old former all-rounder, who played for England between 1972 and 1977 before becoming a commentator, will undergo a biopsy to know at what stage the disease is and what needs to be done for its cure.
“I have had a few scrapes in my life and this is another one. Vivian (Tony’s wife) and I are going to put the boxing gloves on and fight this like we’ve never fought anything before,” Greig is quoted as saying by Sunday Telegraph.
Greig, who was initially diagnosed with bronchitis in May, has a lesion on his right lung.
After returning to Australia from the ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka, he had “a lot of fluid” drained from the lung, and further testing revealed he had cancer.
Greig said he is yet to ascertain if he will be working with Channel Nine as commentator during the Australian summer. “At this stage, the summer is totally up in the air. My priority, 100 per cent, is my family. They will come first,” he said.
Greig played 58 Tests for England and scored 3599 runs for an average of 40.43 apart from taking 141 wickets.
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I wish I get his email address. Let Mr.Tony reig take fresh juice made of two lime fruit in the morning as well as evening. Lemon will cure cancer. Let him consume half tsp of ' turmeric' in soy milk twice a day, as turmeric prevents multiplication of cancer cells. Let him not consume milk, chocolate, icecreams as cancer cells thrive on these things. Pranayama or breatrhing excercises will immensely help him. PLEASE SEND THIS TO CAPTAIN TONY,
That is not good news. We wish him well.. a speedy recovery..
Tony was a charismatic Cricketer. I remember a joke of his
while in Madras for a Test match:
He said(tongue in cheek!)on seeing C.N.Annadurai's statue in
Mount road, in which the DMK leader has an uplifted arm pointing
to the sky. "He has declared me out, even before I had padded
up!What chance do we have"?
He was referring to the similarity of the umpire's gesture
that the batsman is 'out'--by lifting the arm pointing to the
sky. I am not referring to his exact words but only the essence
of it.
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