Callum Flynn: I wouldn't change my journey
30.04.26, 12:18 Updated 01.05.26, 09:12 5 Minute Read
Graham Hardcastle
On March 12, 2009, Callum Flynn was diagnosed with Osteosarcoma, a form of bone cancer in his right knee. It was supposed to be a day of happiness, his 14th birthday. At the time, it would have been anything but. Now, though, thankfully, he can look back with a positive outlook and the view that, ‘Everything happens for a reason’.
Fast-forward a little over 17 years and Flynn is enjoying the game of cricket as much as that talented teenager ever did. Complete with a titanium knee replacement, he has played Disability Cricket for Lancashire and has been representing England since the summer of 2011. He has been captaining his country since late 2019; first the Physical Disability side and, more recently, the Mixed Disability team. He is also a World Cup winner.
A prolific top-order batter for Denton West in the Greater Manchester Cricket League Premier League, you will also hear his dulcet, Mancunian tones as a regular presence on the Lancs TV live stream.
He said: “I do quite a bit of fundraising and a few chats here and there, and I’ve always said that if someone offered me the chance to go back and not go through cancer and all that and live the life I was living before, I’d say, ‘No’.
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