Former Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke has revealed he had to have 27 stitches to address a worrying health scare.Watch every match of The ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Live with no ad breaks in play on Kayo Sports.“I am a dad – I don’t want to go anywhere. The most important thing in the world is making sure I help my seven-year-old daughter and I guess set a good example for her.
“To me, making sure I am putting sunscreen on so she can see it is not just me getting her to do it, it is dad doing it as well.” The 42-year-old has been diligent about wearing sunscreen and going to the dermatologist but has had to have a skin cancer removed or frozen off several times.“Skin cancer Friday. Go get checked please,” he wrote.Michael Clarke has had his fair share of skin scares.
“I am not surprised that a lot of cricketers have had skin cancers because you spend a lot of time in the sun,” said Clarke, who is an ambassador for the Australian Skin Cancer Foundation. “Imagine fielding all day in India, out there for eight hours in the sun, a lot of the guys are wearing the baggy green cap so you are not protecting your ears or your face, you’ve got short sleeved shirts so your arms and the tops of your hands.“I’ve always been disciplined with putting sunscreen on, my parents were too. The part I guess I haven’t been disciplined with was reapplying. All through my career I put sunscreen on but you sweat it off.”Clarke’s grandfather died of bowel cancer.