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Christopher Lance Cairns ONZM (born 13 June 1970) is a retired New Zealand cricketer and captain. He was born in Picton, New Zealand. His father, Lance Cairns, is also a retired cricketer. Cairns played for the New Zealand cricket team from 1989 until 2006. In 2000, he was named as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
In August 2021, he was reported to be on life support after suffering a major heart attack that caused an aortic dissection in his home in Canberra, Australia. He recovered from the heart attack, but became paralysed from the waist down after having a stroke during surgery.
In February 2022, Cairns was diagnosed with bowel cancer.
