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‘You were dealt crappy hand of cards, but you are a champion’: Oncologist treating Pat Cummins’ mother writes emotional obit

Nicholas Wilcken, the oncologist treating Australian Test captain Pat Cummins’ mother Maria wrote an emotional piece on her after she passed away on Friday. Australian cricketer Pat missed the third Test at Indore and the ongoing game at Ahmedabad to be by her side with Steve Smith taking over the reins of the team. In the piece, published by The Sydney Morning Herald, Wilcken praised Maria and her husband Peter for their ‘extraordinary calmness and dignity when things got complicated’. “‘Grace under pressure’ is an easy phrase — and not that it doesn’t mean anything — but Maria was more than that. Somehow she was even stronger after setbacks, had that poise, never complained. When she came into my clinic room with Peter, I could never really tell just how tough (or not) she was doi...