‘She’s the brave one’: Alec Stewart eases Surrey workload to help care for his wife

‘She’s the brave one’: Alec Stewart eases Surrey workload to help care for his wife

Former England captain to end spell as director of cricketWife Lynn has secondary breast cancer

Alec Stewart’s new role as high-performance cricket adviser at Surrey will significantly reduce his workload as he focuses on caring for his wife during her cancer treatment. Stewart will end an 11-year spell as the club’s director of cricket at the end of the year in order to spend more time with his family. His wife, Lynn, has secondary breast cancer and has been fighting the disease for 12 years.

Stewart will take up the new position from January – for a fixed number of days a year – with the responsibility of carrying on Surrey’s success after leading them to a historic third successive County Championship. Speaking of his wife’s illness, the 61-year-old told the Telegraph: “There are bits and pieces that have crept up recently. It’s never going away. It’s managing it.

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