SYDNEY, April 21: Leading paceman Glenn McGrath left here on Monday for the West Indies to rejoin his Australian teammates after his cancer-stricken wife declared she wanted some normality back in her life.

McGrath returned from Australia’s Caribbean tour after his wife Jane was diagnosed with secondary cancer in her hip earlier this month.

The diagnosis relates to the breast cancer she fought in 1997, when she endured six months of chemotherapy before being cleared of cancer in June 1998.

It was not originally known when or if McGrath would rejoin the team in the West Indies.

But McGrath’s decision to rejoin the team came after a specialist said his wife’s condition was not as bad as first feared.

She would still undergo radiation therapy but was expected to make a full recovery.

McGrath will be available for selection for the third Test starting in Bridgetown on May 1.—AFP