A second innings for Ryan
FORMER Australia ODI cricketer Ryan Campbell has revealed he was given a seven per cent chance of survival when he was placed in a coma after suffering multiple cardiac arrests in the UK last month.
But he could be back in charge of the Netherlands cricket team as soon as next month after being discharged from hospital, with the expectation that he will make a full recovery.
Campbell, who played two ODIs for Australia, was placed in an induced coma at Royal Stoke University Hospital last month after falling ill during a family holiday to the UK.
He revealed he “lay down” while at a playground with his kids and had to be given CPR by a local before spending seven days in a coma.
“We were at a playground with my kids, my daughter wanted to go on a slide,” Campbell, 50, told Triple M in Perth. “For some reason I was tired and just wanted to lie down. The lucky thing was, I lay down on the foot of a young girl whose mother was the one that saved my life with CPR. She had just finished her course.
“My wife said my odds (of survival) were seven per cent or something, which means I get a second crack and I am going to live it to the most.”