Chris Cairns diagnosed with bowel cancer

Chris Cairns. Pic/AFP

Already coping with a host of health issues, former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns on Saturday revealed that he has been diagnosed with bowel cancer.

Cairns, 51, had undergone four open heart surgeries, but was left paralysed by a spinal stroke on the operating table five months ago. He was living in the University of Canberra hospital in a special rehabilitation facility.

"I was told yesterday I have bowel cancer...big shock and not what I was expecting," Cairns, who played 62 Tests and 215 ODIs for New Zealand between 1989 to 2006, said on social media.

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