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Vale Phillip Hughes
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Cabinet96
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If you haven't seen it: We love him and always will: Clarke | cricket.com.au
Not for the faint hearted mind.
Not for the faint hearted mind.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
RIP Hughesy... From all accounts one of the most genuinely nice guys in the cricketing circuit.. Nice guys are taken away from us way way too early 
Wish and Pray that his family and friends find the strength to cope with this.. Wish Sean Abbott the best too and hope he can recover from this shock... And wish all the players and others involved and affected the strength to cope and deal with such a loss..
Back in school, when we were playing a fun game with multiple matches happening n the same ground, there was one match where they were using an actual cricket ball.. Rest of us were playing with the hard tennis balls.. And my friend who was fielding midwicket in our game happened to be where forward short leg would have been in the cricket ball game and got hit flush round about the same area Hughes was hit.. He was in pain and we gave some ice and thankfully he was better and was actually able to play the rest of our game.. But incidents like this make me feel how a matter of millimeters can make or break a life ONe of the most tragic days in cricket history
Wish and Pray that his family and friends find the strength to cope with this.. Wish Sean Abbott the best too and hope he can recover from this shock... And wish all the players and others involved and affected the strength to cope and deal with such a loss..Back in school, when we were playing a fun game with multiple matches happening n the same ground, there was one match where they were using an actual cricket ball.. Rest of us were playing with the hard tennis balls.. And my friend who was fielding midwicket in our game happened to be where forward short leg would have been in the cricket ball game and got hit flush round about the same area Hughes was hit.. He was in pain and we gave some ice and thankfully he was better and was actually able to play the rest of our game.. But incidents like this make me feel how a matter of millimeters can make or break a life
ONe of the most tragic days in cricket history 
JBMAC
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Phillip Hughes funeral to take place on Wednesday 3 December | First Test will not start on Thursday 4 December | Cricket Australia
Details of Funeral/First Test as released by CA
Details of Funeral/First Test as released by CA
howardj
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I didn't see the point of it
Nobody was calling for it, and the poor bloke clearly wasn't up to it
Zinzan
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I'm sure he felt obliged to if nothing else for the family. I think he'll be proud of his courage looking back on it.
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Spikey
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making a post elsewhere but thought I should bring this across for...I dunno, discussion? Something to remember?
(also Australia lost a lot of matches Hughes played in. 12 out of 26. that didn't help him nail a spot. gotta look like you're taking action after a loss... and yes hughes sucked in those matches. but still)
wpdavid
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I bought The Times yesterday. Not my usual rag, but I wanted to read Gideon Haigh's piece on Philip Hughes.
It was, as I expected, a super piece of writing. Articulate, sensitive, and generally spot on. As was Mike Atherton's piece in the same paper. The paper's reference to Adam Gilchrist's tweet about Sean Abbott only added to collective excellence of the cricket section.
Then I turned to the letters page, and it seems the retired generals have been out in force. One old git opined that helmets should be banned as that would force batsmen to get their heads out of the way. Another suggested that a line should be drawn across the pitch, with any balls pitching before it being called as no-balls, with persistent offenders being withdrawn from the attack - which, apart from various other arguments, does rather ignore that all batsmen and bowlers are not the same height. And finally some ignorant turd tried to link Hughes' death with Australia's aggressive approach to the last Ashes. Real classy stuff. Now I know there are plenty of idiots out there who might hold these sort of views, but what on earth was the paper doing printing them?
Sorry if anyone objects to me putting this here, but it annoyed me.
It was, as I expected, a super piece of writing. Articulate, sensitive, and generally spot on. As was Mike Atherton's piece in the same paper. The paper's reference to Adam Gilchrist's tweet about Sean Abbott only added to collective excellence of the cricket section.
Then I turned to the letters page, and it seems the retired generals have been out in force. One old git opined that helmets should be banned as that would force batsmen to get their heads out of the way. Another suggested that a line should be drawn across the pitch, with any balls pitching before it being called as no-balls, with persistent offenders being withdrawn from the attack - which, apart from various other arguments, does rather ignore that all batsmen and bowlers are not the same height. And finally some ignorant turd tried to link Hughes' death with Australia's aggressive approach to the last Ashes. Real classy stuff. Now I know there are plenty of idiots out there who might hold these sort of views, but what on earth was the paper doing printing them?
Sorry if anyone objects to me putting this here, but it annoyed me.