Allan Border - Parkinson’s Disease

[ClaretTony]

Great batsman & captain for Australia. He’s confirmed today that he was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease in 2016.

He’s 68 now and said m: "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. I'm 68. 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, and he said, 'That will be a miracle.'"

[Red Fox Rocks Socks]

Sounds like it’ll be a miracle if he makes 80 to me

[IanMcL]

Still commentating. Keep at it.

[beeholeclaret]

Sad news regarding AB.

He had some amusing tales about his time in the Lancashire League.

He remembered hitting a century at Burnley on a Saturday and his East Lancs team lost the match. On the Sunday he hit 170+ not out at Rawtenstall and his team lost again. At the weekly committee meeting he was flabbergasted to hear that the club were unhappy and looking for a better bowling professional for the following season.

[Juan Tanamera]

A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Parkinson's when he was 58, he's now 73.
He doesn't shake in the way some may associate Parkinson's, though he does have a somewhat stumbling kind of gait and his coordination isn't what it was.
But he still walks his dog every afternoon, and can still pick a tune on his guitar.
He's an inspiration to me.

[ClaretTony]

Sad news regarding AB.

He had some amusing tales about his time in the Lancashire League.

He remembered hitting a century at Burnley on a Saturday and his East Lancs team lost the match. On the Sunday he hit 170+ not out at Rawtenstall and his team lost again. At the weekly committee meeting he was flabbergasted to hear that the club were unhappy and looking for a better bowling professional for the following season.

I was at both those games. Burnley had a sub pro from Lancs called Geoff Trim. He didn’t bowl and I think he scored one with the bat having opened. Burnley were eight or nine wickets down when they won it.

The Rawtenstall game was in the Worsley Cup and Rawtenstall chased nearly 300 with ease.

[sjb]

I was on the Burnley game - 1978. Burnley wanted 3 to win when the 9th wicket fell and John Edmondson & Gaz Downey got them in singles with 2 balls to spare.

[Quicknick]

A good friend of mine was diagnosed with Parkinson's when he was 58, he's now 73.
He doesn't shake in the way some may associate Parkinson's, though he does have a somewhat stumbling kind of gait and his coordination isn't what it was.
But he still walks his dog every afternoon, and can still pick a tune on his guitar.
He's an inspiration to me.

Similarly, I have/had a friend in Portugal who has Parkinson's. He used to play for Torquay and had a bright future, England set-up when a teenager. Knee injury did for that. Then he was a musician and a teacher. He has produced four children over two marriages, one of whom is in the orchestra backing ELO. Sadly, the disease is overwhelming him now at 75/76, and he has returned to England. One of the best blokes I have ever met.

[ecc]

Sad news. A great batsman who retrospectively proved to be one of the most famous names in the history of the LL.

[wbfc]

Health is everything really ... AB a great captain.. record run scorer at one stage too....

Hope he can have lots of good years to come

[fatboy47]

I was at the Rawtenstall game, and subsequently in the bar, then the "old house" pub with Peter Wood/Border/Abid Ali and a few others....there were no long faces from the East Lancs boys..just a great game of cricket and a damn good session afterwards.

[Stayingup]

Played 5 a side with him. Top man.

[fatboy47]

A picture of the crowd at Rawtenstall from that match.

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