Cricketer Usman Khawaja reveals debilitating illness he kept secret his entire Test career
- Usman Khawaja was just 22 and revelling in being part of the New South Wales cricket team when he was diagnosed with a potentially crippling disease that he would keep secret his whole career.
- Only now, having retired from international cricket after Australia's Ashes win in January, is Usman revealing that he lived with rheumatoid arthritis while playing 88 Tests for Australia.
- Usman Khawaja in hospital with his mother Fozia Khawaja by his side when he was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
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- Usman Khawaja was just 22 and revelling in being part of the New South Wales cricket team when he was diagnosed with a potentially crippling disease that he would keep secret his whole career.
- Only now, having retired from international cricket after Australia's Ashes win in January, is Usman revealing that he lived with rheumatoid arthritis while playing 88 Tests for Australia.
- Usman Khawaja in hospital with his mother Fozia Khawaja by his side when he was first diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis.
Sources: ABC Australia