New Zealand cricket great on life support

Former Black Caps all-rounder Chris Cairns is reportedly connected beingness enactment successful Australia.

It is understood Cairns suffered a large aesculapian exigency - an aortic dissection - successful Canberra past week.

Cairns is reportedly acceptable to beryllium transferred to a specializer infirmary successful Sydney imminently.

Chris Cairns. (Getty)

The erstwhile Kiwi cricketer has reportedly undergone respective operations since helium was admitted to infirmary but has not responded to attraction arsenic hoped.

Cairns is the lad of Black Caps fable Lance Cairns.

The 51-year-old played 62 Test matches, 215 1 time internationals and 2 T20s for New Zealand betwixt 1989 and 2006.

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