Ged Stokes, father of the New Zealand-born England cricket star Ben Stokes, has revealed that he is battling with brain cancer. He further explained this as the reason for his son pulling out of the Test series against Pakistan to return home to be with his family.
Ben Stokes left England after the first test in Manchester, and is now undergoing a 14 day quarantine as a precautionary measure due to the COVID-19 pandemic before he can join his family in Christchurch.
Ged, a former New Zealand rugby league international, was hospitalised while in Johannesburg in December when he required an emergency surgery for an internal bleeding in the brain, three days before England’s first Test against South Africa.
Further medical tests on his return to New Zealand found tumours on his brain.