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<\/p>\nCameron Green is considered a future star of cricket <\/p>\n
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Australia all-rounder Cameron Green has revealed he was born with chronic kidney disease and that his parents were told he might not live past 12-years-old.<\/p>\n
Green told Channel 7<\/em> that the condition was detected during his mother\u2019s 19-week scan and that he was still trying to learn as much as he could about the disease.<\/p>\n \u201cBasically, my kidneys don\u2019t work as well as other people\u2019s and don\u2019t filter the blood very well,\u201d the 24-year-old said.<\/p>\n \u201cSo I have got to keep my salt and my protein quite low, which isn\u2019t ideal as a cricketer but around games I can pick that protein intake back up because I spend so much of it out on the ground.<\/p>\n \u201cI have always done everything right, eating and drinking in a professional way … but it is a work in progress.\u201d<\/p>\n Green said he had 60% kidney function and that his disease was at stage two, five being the worst.<\/p>\n \u201cThe kidneys don\u2019t heal,\u201d he said. \u201cSo if you don\u2019t look after them, it can get worse. Maybe not in the space of a couple of months but certainly over years.\u201d<\/p>\n Green, who has played 24 tests, is part of Australia\u2019s squad for the series against Pakistan but is not playing in the opening match in Perth, which started earlier on Thursday.<\/p>\n David Warner, who will retire from Test cricket after the third Test in Sydney, marked the start of his farewell series in style with a brilliant hundred to help Australia make a strong start. <\/p>\n