Australian cricketer Cameron Green reveals he’s fighting stage two chronic kidney disease | Cricket News

Australia allrounder Cameron Green revealed that he has been managing a stage two chronic kidney disease that was diagnosed when he was a newborn.“My parents got told when I was born that I had chronic kidney disease. Basically there were no symptoms, just got picked up through ultrasounds,” Green told Channel 7 in a video piece aired during the opening day of the Test match between Australia and Pakan.
“Chronic kidney disease is basically a progressive disease of your kidney’s health function. Unfortunately, mine doesn’t filter the blood as well as other kidneys. So they’re about at 60% now which is stage 2,” he told Channel 7. “With chronic kidney disease there’s five stages, with stage one being the least severe, and stage five being transplant or dialysis,” he said.
“Fortunately, I’m stage two, but if you don’t look after them enough, it easily goes back down.”
Green’s mother Bee Tracey said it came as a shock when they first heard of it.
“I was at my 19-week scan and they picked up that he had thickening of his bladder, they said it was a urethral valve blockage where the urine basically backflows to the kidneys and they wouldn’t develop properly, so it was quite a shock,” she said.
While he seems to have been largely unaffected the issue during his playing career, Green recalled an ODI match September 2022 in Cairns between Australia versus New Zealand when had had a long day of bowling and batting, and then had a cramping episode. While at the time he thought he had perhaps taken care of his body enough hydrating, later he realised it was perhaps the kidney issue that brought up the cramping.
“If I can help one person or bring awareness to it, it’s worthwhile,” Green later told the broadcasters on why he chose to open up now.

“If I can help one person or bring awareness to it, it’s worthwhile.”
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Green is not part of the playing XI as the Australian summer got underway in Perth on Thursday. David Warner carried a limited-overs mindset into the test arena with an unbeaten 72 from 67 deliveries to help Australia reach 117 without loss Thursday in the first session of the series opener against Pakan.
Usman Khawaja, wearing a black armband, was unbeaten on 37 after surviving a dropped catch, the only seriously close call in 25 overs dominated Australia.
Pat Cummins won the toss, opted to bat first in ideal conditions and Australia’s opening pair scored 14 in the first over from Pakan pace spearhead Shaheen Shah Afridi to set the tone.
The Australians are coming off a victory last month at the Cricket World Cup in India and also won the World Test Championship final earlier in the year.
(With inputs from The Associated Press)