Brain cancer survivor to play junior cricket finals after bureaucratic backflip

A Melbourne junior cricket league has backflipped on a decision barring a 12-year-old and his team from a cricket final.

Ieuan Hill, 12, returned to play cricket for Brighton United last week after taking time off to recover from surgery to remove a brain tumour.

Brighton Union was banned, after an opposition official complained Ieuan hadn’t played enough games.

That was because he spent much of the season recovering, after having a golf ball sized tumour removed from behind his eye socket.

The South East Cricket Association originally refused to budge on the decision to bar the team.

But it has now reconsidered, admitting the ban didn’t “pass the pub test” and reversing the decision.