5 cricketers who made successful comebacks after battling cancer

3) Dave Callaghan

Dave Callaghan scored a whirlwind 169* in Centurion on his return to cricket

As a young cricketer from Cape Province, Dave Callaghan went about charting his path into international cricket. Having made his debut for the Proteas, his plans were thrown off-track when he was diagnosed with testicular cancer in September 1991, forcing him to miss out on the World Cup in 1992.

Having fought the disease, Callaghan returned to the sport after a year, launching a ferocious assault on the New Zealand bowlers in his first outing, scoring an unbeaten 169 from 143 balls – a South African record at that time. Not content, he went on to take his career-best three for 32 to help seal the match in South Africa’s favour.