OAKS TO RAISE MONEY FOR TEENAGE CANCER TRUST IN CHARITY MATCH

WOKINGHAM Cricket Club is to host a charity match to raise money for club member Harry Staples, who was diagnosed with leukaemia in March 2020.

The match will see Wokingham take on an Indian touring team in a T20 match on Sunday, August 21.

Money will be raised for both the Anthony Nolan Charity and Teenage Cancer Trust.

Harry was 21 when he was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid

Leukaemia and has since undergone chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant.

Harry first joined Wokingham CC in 2012 as part of their under 12s team and has progressed through the age groups.

Fortunately, a donor was found by the Anthony Nolan Charity and he had the stem cell transplant in July 2020. The transplant went well, and Harry’s recovery proceeded without any major complications – he even managed to play a little bit of cricket for WCC in the 2021 season.

Unfortunately, Harry relapsed in July last year, and required more chemotherapy and a second stem cell transplant and he went back into hospital.

After spending five weeks in isolation in hospital, the Anthony Nolan Charity found Harry a donor.

He had his second stem cell transplant in December and made it out of hospital just in time for Christmas.

He is now over six months post transplant and has had a tougher time with recovery this time around.

Harry said: “Your kind donations will help both the Anthony Nolan Charity and specifically the Teenage Cancer Trust’s Young Person’s Unit at the Queen Elizabeth hospital in Birmingham.

“I have also been supported by a specialist nurse for everything clinical and emotional. Without both of these amazing ladies I really don’t know how I would have got through the last two-and-a-half years.”