His father went to Australia to see Plunkett in action on the recent tour but was not well enough to follow him at the World Cup in the Caribbean over the next two months.
KINGSTOWN: England fast bowler Liam Plunkett was willing to donate one of his kidneys to his ill father but his offer was turned down. “Obviously with close family on their death bed you would, wouldn’t you?” Plunkett told the England and Wales Cricket Board Web site (www.ecb.co.uk) on Monday. “That is what I said but he said he wouldn’t take it anyway because of the career I have ahead of me. I was fully prepared but he wouldn’t accept it anyway.”
His father went to Australia to see Plunkett in action on the recent tour but was not well enough to follow him at the World Cup in the Caribbean over the next two months. Plunkett, 21, made the offer before leaving for St. Vincent for England’s warm-up matches.
His father has a hereditary kidney ailment. “The only person in my family who could give me a kidney is Liam,” his father Alan, 49, told north east England paper, the Sunday Sun. “As soon as he found out he offered me one straight away without any consideration whatsoever about his career. All he was worried about was me and my health and he simply said, ‘take one of mine’,” Alan said.
“You could not do anything more for a parent but I said, ‘thanks but no thanks’. It was an amazing thing to do but I could not accept because I’d be worried it would affect his cricket career. It could have set him back a long way but he was not concerned about that at all,” he added. “Instead I am awaiting dialysis until a new kidney becomes available which could be about two years away.”
Plunkett is part of England’s 15-man squad for the World Cup and played a key role in the team’s victory over hosts Australia in the recent one-day tri-series finals in February.
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