Tony Greig,
the former England captain and well-known television commentator, has
died after being diagnosed with lung cancer earlier this year. He
suffered a heart attack at his home in Sydney on Saturday morning and
died at about 1.45pm (AEDT). He was 66.
"He was rushed into St. Vincent's hospital. The staff of the emergency
department worked on Mr Greig to no avail," St Vincent's spokesman David
Faktor told Sydney Morning Herald.
Greig had been initially diagnosed with bronchitis in May but his
condition did not improve and tests following the World Twenty20 in Sri
Lanka revealed that he had a lesion on his right lung. On his return to
Australia from the tournament, he had "a lot of fluid" drained from the
lung, and further testing revealed he had cancer. An integral part of
Channel Nine's commentary team, Greig was not on duty at any of the
Tests during the Australian summer.
"It's not good. The truth is I've got lung cancer. Now it's a case of
what they can do," Greig had said while speaking on air to Channel Nine
during the Australia-South Africa Test series in November. He was
operated on later that month.
He played 58 Tests for England, and led them in 14, during a five-year
career that ended in 1977, when Greig joined Kerry Packer and was one of
the key players in World Series Cricket. Greig scored 3599 runs at an
average of 40 and took 141 wickets at 32 apiece.
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