’The illness of New Zealand’s Great All-rounder is as shocking news for me ,A page from Cricket Dairy of Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak,

New Zealand cricket great Chris Cairns in intensive care in Sydney…… ‘’The illness of New Zealand’s Great All-rounder is as shocking news for me ,A page from Cricket Dairy of Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak,

The illness of New Zealand’s Great All-rounder is as shocking news for me as it is for millions of people. I pray to Allah for their speedy recovery. I first met him on December 7, 2003 at the Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium when he was the captain. The former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns is in intensive care at a Sydney hospital after suffering a life-threatening health problem. A page from Cricket Dairy of Pakistani journalist Asghar Ali Mubarak, 7th December 2003 Pakistan wins the day was 7th December 2003 and it was the fifth and final ODI of Pakistan vs New Zealand at The 51-year-old had surgery in Canberra for a reported aortic dissection – a tear in the body’s main artery – but was transferred to St Vincent’s hospital on other day night. A spokesperson for St Vincent’s said Cairns was in a “serious but stable condition”. Support for a player regarded as one of the best all-rounders of the 1990s included the former Black Caps captain Brendon McCullum, who was a young member of the squad during Cairns’s most senior days. Cairns played 62 Tests, 215 ODIs and two Twenty20 matches for New Zealand between 1989 and 2006. His father, Lance, also represented New Zealand. Cairns has lived in Canberra for several years after his marriage to an Australian, Melanie Croser, in 2010. She said: “Chris’s family and friends are heartened by the respectful and warm manner in which this terrible news has been reported, and received by the public, both in New Zealand and around the world, and thanks everyone for their warm wishes, prayers and kind words.”

Rawalpindi. Pakistan won the match by 4runs and wins series 5-0. In the titled captioned photo at the

end of the last and final 5ht ODI played on 7th December 2003 day /night at Pindi cricket ground

Rawalpindi the New Zeeland’s former ODI captain, Christopher Lance Cairns talking to media, on left

Asghar Ali Mubarak (on chair) while Mr. Samiul Hasan Burney Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) media

director the then the Communication Officer International Cricket Council now the media manager

Pakistan Cricket Board is standing behind the Kiwi captain. Rawalpindi hosted two ODI back to back at Pindi cricket stadium. Pakistan won the series 5–0.

SCORECARD SUMMARY

NEW ZEALAND 307/8(50 OVERS)

Hamish Marshall84 (105)

Craig McMillan81 (81)

Azhar Mahmood2/38 (6)

Shoaib Akhtar2/46 (10)

PAKISTAN 303(49.3 OVERS)

Abdul Razzaq89 (40)

Inzamam-ul-Haq67 (81)

Kyle Mills2/65 (9.3)

Jacob Oram2/28 (10)

New Zealand was captained by Chris Cairns and Pakistan by Inzamam-ul-Haq. Earlier the New Zealand

national cricket team toured the Pakistan. The New Zealand national cricket team toured Pakistan from

29th November – 7th December 2003 and played a five-match One Day International (ODI) series

against the Pakistani national cricket team. Earlier the he former ODI captain, Christopher Lance Cairns

missed the tour in 2002 which was incomplete due to bomb blast outside the hotel in Karachi. New

Zealand Cricket team was safe but that the decision was made for the team to return back to New

Zealand. The explosion – believed to have been the work of a suicide bomber – went off in a parked bus

and killed 12 people, including 10 French defense technicians. Thirty-four others were injured, some of

them seriously. It was not the first time the New Zealand side has seen tours affected by bomb blasts. In

1987 their tour of Sri Lanka was abandoned after just one Test .After retiring from international cricket, Cairns was the subject of allegations of match-fixing as captain of the Chandigarh Lions in the Indian Cricket League in 2008.He denied any wrongdoing and fought several legal battles to clear his name, winning a libel case against the former Indian Premier League chairman Lalit Modi in 2012.In 2015, he was cleared of perjury in London in relation to the libel case.

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