Popular cricket commentator Mark Nicholas was resting in hospital yesterday after being taken by ambulance from the Melbourne Cricket Ground on the first day of the second cricket test between Australia and Pakistan.
England-born Nicholas, a former Hampshire captain and a long-time member of the television commentary team for Australia's Channel Nine, was taken to Epworth Hospital suffering severe stomach pains.
Paramedics treated Nicholas after he fell ill in the commentary box and recommended he be taken to hospital. He was not on air at the time.
A Channel Nine spokesman said 59-year-old Nicholas was "doing much better this evening and is in good spirits.
A fellow commentator, Michael Slater, confirmed the news during the tea break without adding further details of Nicholas’s condition.
“Normally Mark Nicholas would be sitting here at this time of the day,” Slater said. “Just to let you know, he’s fallen ill with abdominal pains and he’s been taken to hospital for testing. We will keep you up-to-date with the latest news when we receive it. So we wish him well.”
