Hosts England and the visiting West Indies team will wear red for the third Test at Old Trafford in Manchester in honour of former England captain Andrew Strauss’s late wife Ruth.
Ruth Strauss was diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer that affects non-smokers in December 2017, during England’s most recent Ashes tour of Australia.
The move is to raise fund for the Ruth Strauss Foundations. This year’s #RedForRuth initiative follows a successful inaugural event in 2019, when a sell-out 28,500 crowd packed Lords for the second Ashes Test. Following her death, the Ruth Strauss Foundation was set up to raise money for families who have lost a parent to cancer.