Lord’s wrapped in red to pay tribute to Ruth Strauss

Flag bearers lead as Sir Andrew Strauss and families that have been supported by the charity walk out onto the pitch wearing red for The Ruth Strauss Foundation
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Matt Watts13 August 2021

The home of cricket was bathed in red on Friday to honour Ruth Strauss, the wife of former England captain Sir Andrew Strauss, who died from lung cancer in 2018.

The Ruth Strauss Foundation has since been set up to support the 41,000 children who experience losing a parent each year, as well as funding research into non-smoking lung cancers.

Sir Andrew was at Lord’s on the second day of the Test against India with sons Sam, 15, and Luca, 13, to promote the foundation.

Andrew Strauss wearing red for the Ruth Strauss Foundation
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Former England skipper Strauss told Sky Sports Cricket: “From the Foundation’s point of view I’m just so excited about these next five days; it’s an opportunity for us to showcase all the work we’re doing to help families facing the death of a parent.

“Watching that video it really does make me emotional on a couple of levels; firstly because it reminds me of everything we went through with Ruth and her courage and bravery in terms of getting us prepared for her death, which a lot of people don’t want to do - they don’t want to think about.”

He added: “Our focus is to offer professional help to allow them to prepare for it because what we know is that if you don’t have that help, a lot of kids really struggle post-death just in terms of resolving their grief and if we can be a bit more proactive and help families before it comes, it allows those discussions, those conversations to help place and hopefully make that awful journey just a little bit easier for them.”

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