New York: Oman’s Pakistani-born captain Aqib Ilyas has returned to cricket after beating cancer.
In the T20 World Cup, Oman’s Pakistan-born captain Aqib Ilyas has returned to cricket after defeating cancer, he came close to losing one of his legs due to the disease.
Now the 31-year-old cricketer has the chance to replace Zeeshan Maqsood in the showpiece event, after Aqib was diagnosed with a tumor in his left ankle, which sidelined him for a year and a half.
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Recalling this painful period in the past, Aqib said that I felt both life and cricket were over, it was all very scary, before the 2021 T20 World Cup, I came to know about another friend of mine who had a similar tumor. had passed away due to, playing cricket and walking again was a distant thing, at that time I was also worried whether I would survive or not.
He said that after informing my family about the situation, they called me back to Pakistan, where I underwent a complex surgery in Lahore, then I played 4 years of T20 cricket after which I was selected to represent Oman
