England bowler Kate Cross has revealed that the tropical disease she is fighting has left her feeling “drastically low”. The 31-year-old seamer is on her ninth round of antibiotics to deal with a parasite and is facing a race to be fit for this summer’s Ashes series, which begins on 22 June. “I have had a really bad week,” Cross told the No Balls podcast. “I thought I was over this illness and it’s come back with a vengeance. It’s my seventh relapse now.” Cross, who has played just three matches for her domestic side this season, has used the theme of Mental Health Awareness Week to detail the mental toll the illness has had. “The lows have been drastically low,” said Cross. “When you are playing sport and you are pulled out because of injury, you understand, but because it’s illness based, and every day is different, I’m struggling with that. “It’s the most resistant thing the doctors have come across. I’m currently watching a taxi driver from London on their way with some more medication for me and hopefully this is the final one. “I have found it difficult because I thought the end was in sight nine times now.”
Cross has been absent as England have spent the last week on a team-building trip to the Lake District, ahead of a massive summer.
And she added: “When you miss out on big team events like that, it makes you realise we’re so close to the summer now and there’s an Ashes not far away and I am very not much ready for it and still really ill. “It’s been relentless. You see small stepping stones with injuries but it’s not been like that with this. “I haven’t left my flat for three days, other than to go to Liverpool to a tropical disease specialist lab.”
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