nightprowler10
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He would've been 26 this Sunday. Just a child. Jeez...
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Vale Phillip Hughes
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Adders
Cricketer Of The Year
For the first time in my life I will be 100% with the Aussies in this WC campaign (well, just as soon as England make their inevitable early exit) I just can't think of a more fitting tribute for Phil Hughes than have the Aussies win the world cup at home in his honor.
RIP 
Sadly a new name for this heart-rending list
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Sadly a new name for this heart-rending list
Records | Test matches | Individual records (captains, players, umpires) | Shortest lived players | ESPN Cricinfo
Yeah, I'm exactly the same right now. Tears everywhere.
adub
International Captain
Yeah I like that - 63*Feeling sick, hope is family and Abbot are ok.
63* forever
Burgey
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The neuro said the ball hit his neck and compressed his vertebral artery, causing a subarachnoid hemorrhage. Apparently extremely rare injury, only 100 ever recorded and one previous recorded case in history from a cricket ball. It just makes it all the sadder. So random and unlucky. Still can't believe it.
hendrix
Hall of Fame Member
not to take anything away from the sentiment because people express grief in different ways but personally I don't find tragedy to be an appropriate motivating factor for a sports tournament. Not trying to high horse or anything, just a different perspective.
I remember that away series vs. India last year, when Hughes looked out-of-sorts, uncomfortable in playing spin and generally like a walking wicket vs. Ashwin and co. But as the series wore on, he worked his arse off to improve and find ways to make runs. And he did towards the back-end of the series, making a 60-odd and a 40-odd in the last two Tests, in spite of being sawn off by two dodgy LBWs and unsettled by a freak delivery from Ishant Sharma.
You simply couldn't question his commitment. Will be missed.
You simply couldn't question his commitment. Will be missed.
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I too readily assumed that he'd be fine again and it was just a matter of time rather than anything else. Not sure how much of that was down to a refusal to acknowledge the true severity of the injury but either way this has properly knocked me and was a literal wake-up when I rolled over to turn off my alarm and saw it on my phone about an hour ago.
It's already been said but no words can truly be enough and my thoughts are with everyone who knew, loved and cared for him.
I don't know who's stood at point up there in the ultimate test but it's not a good day for him either when Phil Hughes joins you on 63*.
You'll be missed.
It's already been said but no words can truly be enough and my thoughts are with everyone who knew, loved and cared for him.
I don't know who's stood at point up there in the ultimate test but it's not a good day for him either when Phil Hughes joins you on 63*.
You'll be missed.
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
I don't know what to say. I watched Michael Clarke man up and deliver the hardest speech he has ever delivered at a press conference and then he just left because he was spent at the end of it. We love you were the last words. And **** what else is there to say really - not we loved you in past tense but we love you right now even though you are dead.
Someone at his eulogy is going to point out the fact that he died doing what he loved. He was in the middle making poetry with his bat. He undoubtedly lived for cricket and he died doing what he was put on earth to do. I am so happy Dan and Cabinet you shared that you are a bit misty eyed because I am well past that. This is all too much.
Someone at his eulogy is going to point out the fact that he died doing what he loved. He was in the middle making poetry with his bat. He undoubtedly lived for cricket and he died doing what he was put on earth to do. I am so happy Dan and Cabinet you shared that you are a bit misty eyed because I am well past that. This is all too much.
James
Cricket Web Owner
Burgey has penned this for those interested:
Cricket Web - Features: A Life Too Short. A Life Well Played
Can't really say much but just such devastating news. As I was saying to Burgey earlier today, credit to the CW community for the class everyone has shown through this whole situation. Especially with the banner thread.
Cricket Web - Features: A Life Too Short. A Life Well Played
Can't really say much but just such devastating news. As I was saying to Burgey earlier today, credit to the CW community for the class everyone has shown through this whole situation. Especially with the banner thread.
Hurricane
Hall of Fame Member
Great article.
the big bambino
Cricketer Of The Year
Grief is so powerful it is beyond words to alleviate. People feel the need to relieve themselves from the burden somehow and turning it into a motivation to honour someone's memory is both understandable if proof of the inadequacy any one of us to express it any better.
