Matthew Wade made Australia a champion like this despite being color-blind, fighting testicular cancer, and a lot more
Matthew Wade retires: In 2018, when Matthew Wade was out of the team for some time, he took a course in carpentry and later worked in his house. Matthew Wade is also color blind, when the Pink Ball Test was starting, Matthew Wade himself mentioned this.
Australian batsman-wicketkeeper Matthew Wade has declared that he wants to retire from international cricket. Wade made this decision after being left out of the team for the ODI and T20 series against Pakistan. He will now be a part of the Australian team's coaching staff. Officially, Cricket Australia (CA) has provided this information.
This is despite Wade's statement saying goodbye to international cricket, and joining coaching. He will continue playing some franchise cricket including the Big Bash League (BBL). If you know about Matthew Wade, his life was full of difficulties. When Matthew Wade was 16 years old, he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. While playing football, he was injured, and when he went to the hospital for treatment, he came to know about cancer during an examination.
Due to treatment, Wade could not play cricket and he worked as a plumber for a long time. Apart from this, in the year 2018, when Matthew Wade was out of the team for some time, he had done a course in carpentry and later worked in his house. Matthew Wade is also color blind, when the Pink Ball Test was starting, Matthew Wade himself mentioned this. Thereafter, Matthew Wade was banned from Test cricket three years ago as he was having problems in sighting the pink ball under light.
Talking about stats for Matthew Wade, he has scored three half-centuries thus far in his T20 International career, all three against India. Wade has scored 1,202 runs so far in 92 T20 matches at an average of 26.13. During this, his strike rate is 131.27. Wade finally appeared in an international match in the T20 World Cup 2024. He won the T20 World Cup 2021 with Australia. During the semi-final against Pakistan, he played a match-winning innings of 41* off 17 balls.
Wade has scored 1,867 runs in 97 ODIs at an average of 26.29. Here he has sounded 1 century and 11 half-centuries. Wade made his Test debut against the West Indies in 2012. He donned the Australian jersey in 36 Tests in a career spanning over a decade, where he scored 1,613 runs at an average of 29.87. In Tests, Wade has scored 4 centuries and 5 half-centuries with a highest score of 117 runs.
