TONY GREIG DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER

Tony Greig too has acquired the dreaded decease ‘Cancer’

What was published in our earlier news item a while ago was that Martin Crow had been diagnosed to have acquired the dreaded decease ‘Cancer’. Now after a few hours ago foreign reports that had reached from the Australian Sunday ‘Herald’, it has been confirmed by his wife Vivian that Tony Greig, the 66 year old very famous television cricket commentator and former England captain too had acquired  ‘cancer’ in his right lung.
During the world cup in 1996 which Sri Lanka won it was Tony Greig who gave very impartial and clear descriptions and talents about the manner our cricketers played commentating in an unbiased manner. He went to say in the final that the ‘underdogs have come through’.
 He was a very famous television commentator whom cricket fans the world over loved, especially those in Sri Lanka. After Sri Lanka were crowned as ‘world champions’, he even named our captain Arjuna Ranatunga as ‘Captain Cool’ the name which still stands. He also named Sanath Jayasuriya as the ‘Master Blaster’. He also called Romesh Kaluvitharana as our ‘little kalu’.these pet names have used even today. He loved the manner our cricketers played the game. Once of his colleague commentator Ravi Shastri had told Tony Greig ‘why not you take Sri Lankan citizenship’.
 For the first time the symptoms of his complication, was revealed by the Australian media today the 20th.
It had all started in May when he was treated in a hospital in Australia for a bout of ‘bronchitis’ was revealed by his wife. He was in the television commentary team for the ICC world 2012 T/20-20 tournament held in Sri Lanka.
Tony Greig is a permanent citizen in Sydney, Australia. As he was having a persisting cough medical investigations were conducted. It had revealed that it was due to a ‘cancer’ which had affected his right lung when he was hospitalised. His family is living in Sydney. This is his second marriage. He has from his earlier marriage has an elder son and an elder daughter. From his second wife Vivian they have a son and a daughter 10 years and 12 years respectively.
Tony Greig was born to a Scottish father and a South African mother in the year 1946 in South Africa. Later they had migrated to England having got citizenship. He started his cricketing career in England. Later on he was appointed the captain of the England team. In the year 1977 he retired from International cricket and took up a career in the television media as a cricket commentator. He worked for channel 9, channel 4, Sky television and various other television channels.
After Sri Lanka won the world cup in 1996 he even appeared for TV commercials in our country. In the year 2011 he was appointed for the post of Brand Ambassador by our Sri Lanka Tourist Board. This year in June he was invited to a deliver a speech at the annual MCC sessions. He was not happy and critical with the damage India had done to the game of cricket. According to him the value of the game was made to diminish.
In the meantime for sometime he had continued to write his columns to the ‘Cricinfo’ web site regularly. Investigations in this regard are been conducted and after certain tests treatment is due to commence in the coming two weeks or so.