Wade's fight with cancer

Matthew Wade, the Australia wicketkeeper, has revealed that he was diagnosed with cancer when he was 16. The Sydney Morning Herald talks to Wade about his battle with the disease and how it affected him.

''It was just a surreal sort of thing. It didn't hit home until I sat there and they told me basically that I was going to go through chemotherapy and lose my hair and all that sort of stuff. As a young bloke at 16, I think that's when it hit home that this was pretty serious. Before that I didn't really know, I just thought I'd have an operation and it would be taken care of. Then, sitting down and talking about it, I realised how serious it was and I was pretty lucky to get through it.''