{"id":185785,"date":"2026-06-25T21:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=185785"},"modified":"2026-06-25T21:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:45:24","slug":"the-walking-miracle-meet-sally-ann-greig-sister-of-tony-and-ian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=185785","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018walking miracle\u2019: Meet Sally Ann Greig, sister of Tony and Ian"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Girls did not play cricket in South Africa those days.<\/p>\n

But, Sally Ann Greig did. In the backyard of her home in the South African town of Queenstown, she played with both her brothers Tony and Ian, both of whom went on to play Test cricket for England.<\/p>\n

Tony Greig also went on to attain much fame as a commentator. He was one of those voices and faces that brought live cricket from the sunny Australian grounds to India, where the sun hadn\u2019t been up yet.<\/p>\n

Greig was part of the great Channel 9 <\/i>commentary team that included the likes of Richie Benaud, Ian and Greg Chappell and Bill Lawry. \u201cI did not quite imagine my brother Tony would go on to become such a popular commentator, though he always loved to talk cricket,\u201d Sally Ann tells Sportstar<\/i>. \u201cMany people now tend to forget that he was a fine cricketer as well; they know only him as a commentator.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sally Ann says her brother loved India.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Tony\u2019s obituary, BBC radio commentator Christopher Martin-Jenkins had written that his finest moment was in India at the Eden Gardens (where he played a captain\u2019s innings to lead England to victory in the 1977 Test),\u201d she says. \u201cAnd that was the last article Martin-Jenkins wrote before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sally Ann, whose husband is First-Class cricketer and former MCC president Phillip Hodson, has fond memories of watching Tony playing Test cricket at Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy parents had given me a trip as a present for my 21st birthday,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I came over, yeah. And I was there…\u00a0I helped because his wife was pregnant, with their second baby. He was born on the 20th of June. And Tony was made captain just after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sally Ann had hit headlines in this country during Covid. She was called the \u2018walking miracle\u2019, after being given little chance for survival by the doctors. \u201cI thought I had a fever after returning from South Africa and went to Lord\u2019s for a dinner, where Kumar Sangakkara and other Sri Lankans were there,\u201d she recalls.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was given some penicillin and the next thing I knew that I was in an ambulance. And they put me into an induced coma for six weeks. I can\u2019t remember that.\u201d<\/p>\n

She attributes it to the longevity of her mother. \u201cI have so many things to do,\u201d she says. \u201cI have always wanted to watch cricket at the Eden Gardens\u201d.<\/p>\n

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