Transplant team mark second innings
A CRICKET club is hosting a match with a life saving difference this week.
For the England Wales Transplant cricket team is a side for cricketers who have received life saving organ, tissue and stem cell transplants.
The match is being played at Rockhampton Cricket Club, Rockhampton, Berkeley this Sunday, September 11, against a team from NHS Blood and Transplant made up of players involved in organ donation.
Mark Kennedy, the England and Wales captain said: “Cricket has brought us all together and transplantation has given usanother chance to play the game we love.
“We are all celebrating our second innings - a reminder of the generosity of our donors be they family, friends or complete strangers who offered us a new chance of life.
“Playing this fixture against the NHS team is a fantastic way for us to show the amazing team of doctors and nurses how their work enables transplant recipients to lead a healthy and active life post transplant.”
The match at the Boundary Field cricket ground, Rockhampton, Berkeley, Gloucestershire (GL13 9DR) starts at 11am on Sunday.