Allan Border: World Cup-winning Australia captain Allan Border is awaiting a miracle with Parkinson’s disease. The southpaw was diagnosed with this disease in 2016 and said it would be nothing short of a miracle if he manages to live up to 80 years. Border, one of the fighting characters of the Australian team during the late seventies and 80s, hid the diagnosis from public because he did not want them to feel sorry.
“I’m a pretty private person, and I didn’t want people to feel sorry for me sort of thing. Whether people care you don’t know. But I know there’ll come a day when people will notice,” Border told News Corp.
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Parkinson’s, for which there is no cure, causes progressive brain damage. Loss of muscle control, tremors, muscle rigidity, and slowness of movement are some of the common symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.
Border said he is not scared about the immediate future and confirmed he is feeling much better. “I get the feeling I’m a hell of a lot better off than most. At the moment, I’m not scared, not about the immediate future anyway.
Allan Border: Border hoping for a miracle to live up to 80
The former Australia captain will turn 68 on July 27. The southpaw says living up to 80 will be nothing short of a miracle. Border’s doctor friend also echoed his sentiments that reaching 80 will be considered a great effort.
“I’m 68 (on July 27). If I make 80, that’ll be a miracle. I’ve got a doctor friend, and I said if I make 80, that’ll be a miracle. He said, ‘That will be a miracle.’”
One of the game’s finest, Border held the record of scoring the most runs in Test cricket and also led Australia to its first World Cup title in 1987. The Southpaw finished his Test career by scoring 11,174 in 156 Tests. He became the first-ever batter to breach the 11000 barrier in Test cricket.
Border concluded by saying that he is not thinking about reaching the magical figure 100. “No way am I going to get another hundred, that’s for sure,” he added. “I’ll just slip slowly into the west.”
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