49 Facts About Phillip Hughes

Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire.

Phillip Hughes was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20.

Phillip Hughes made his One Day International Debut in 2013.

On 25 November 2014, Phillip Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, causing a vertebral artery dissection that led to a subarachnoid hemorrhage.

Phillip Hughes was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, where he underwent surgery, was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition.

Phillip Hughes was born in Macksville, New South Wales, to father Greg, a banana farmer, and Italian mother, Virginia.

Phillip Hughes was a talented rugby league footballer who once played alongside former Australia international Greg Inglis.

Phillip Hughes played his junior cricket for Macksville RSL Cricket Club, where he excelled so quickly that he was playing A-Grade at the age of 12 and in Representative Cricket he scored a century.

At the age of 17, Phillip Hughes moved from Macksville to Sydney to play for Western Suburbs District Cricket Club in Sydney Grade Cricket while he attended Homebush Boys High.

Phillip Hughes represented Australia at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup.

Phillip Hughes was coached at Triforce Sports Cricket Centre in Mortlake.

Phillip Hughes played his first senior game against Tasmania on 20 November 2007 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

Phillip Hughes had an outstanding debut season for New South Wales, playing seven matches and scoring 559 runs at an average of 62.11 with one century and six 50s.

Phillip Hughes scored 116 off 175 balls in the Blues' second innings to help put his team in a commanding position.

Phillip Hughes was signed by Middlesex on a short-term contract, as cover for Murali Kartik, for the beginning of the 2009 English cricket season.

Phillip Hughes was available for the first six weeks of the season and played in three County Championship matches, all eight of Middlesex's Friends Provident Trophy group matches and the first few matches in the Panthers' defence of the Twenty20 Cup.

Phillip Hughes enjoyed strong success in England, scoring 574 runs in his three first-class matches, including three hundreds, at an average of 143.50.

Less than a week after his debut in first-class cricket, on 28 November 2007, Phillip Hughes made his List A debut in against Victoria at the Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Just as he did in his first-class debut, Phillip Hughes passed 50 but was eventually dismissed for 68, top scoring for New South Wales in a "controlled" display.

On 17 May 2009, Phillip Hughes made his first limited overs century, scoring 119 for Middlesex against Warwickshire.

Phillip Hughes was selected to make his debut in the first Test match starting on 26 February 2009 at the New Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg after making 53, then retiring, in Australia's tour match against the South African Board President's XI.

Phillip Hughes was dismissed for a duck in his first Test innings by Dale Steyn off just the fourth ball of the match, however he went on to top-score with 75 in the second innings, including 11 fours and a six.

Phillip Hughes hit his maiden Test century in the first innings of the second Test at the Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, Durban, on 6 March 2009, before adding another hundred in the second Innings.

Phillip Hughes was dropped from the team for the third Edgbaston Test in favour of Shane Watson, who opened the batting in his place and provided the Australians with an extra bowling option.

Phillip Hughes was awarded the Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year at the Allan Border Medal ceremony by the CA in 2009.

Phillip Hughes was a fringe player for the next year or so, playing some Tests to cover for other injured batsmen.

Phillip Hughes played two home Tests against Pakistan in this capacity, covering for the injured Ricky Ponting in the Boxing Day Test, then Simon Katich in the New Year's Test.

Phillip Hughes was then called up to the Test squad for the tour of New Zealand in March 2010 to replace Shane Watson in the first Test; he scored a rapid 86 from 75 balls in a small fourth-innings run chase in this Test.

Phillip Hughes was a regular in the Australian team for the following year, playing in the last three Ashes tests, tours of Sri Lanka and South Africa and then a home series against New Zealand, but his spot came under pressure due to his inconsistency during that time.

Phillip Hughes achieved two big scores, but his next-highest score was only 36, and he consistently fell to catches at slip and gully.

Phillip Hughes was heavily criticised for his performance in the two-Test series against New Zealand, in which he managed only 41 runs at 10.25, and was dismissed exactly the same way in all four innings: caught at slip by Martin Guptill from the bowling of Chris Martin.

Phillip Hughes was dropped from the Australian team following the series.

Phillip Hughes made an impressive first inning 86 batting at number 3.

Phillip Hughes made two half centuries during his comeback scoring 233 runs at 46.60 in what was the most successful stint at the number 3 spot that the Australians had seen for some time.

Phillip Hughes made his mark with a solid 112 in his ODI debut, becoming the first Australian to reach a century on debut.

Phillip Hughes opened the innings with Aaron Finch at Melbourne, and added a 140-run 3rd wicket partnership with captain George Bailey, before being dismissed by Lasith Malinga.

Phillip Hughes played the first two Tests of the 2013 Ashes, and shared a world record tenth wicket partnership of 163 runs with debutant Ashton Agar in the first innings at Trent Bridge, but was dropped for the third test.

Phillip Hughes did not play another Test for Australia, but played in ODI series in India in October 2013, in Zimbabwe in September 2014, and against Pakistan in the UAE in October 2014.

Phillip Hughes made his only Twenty20 International appearance for Australia against Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates on 5 October 2014.

Phillip Hughes was a close friend of teammates Michael Clarke and David Warner, as well as boxer Anthony Mundine.

Phillip Hughes grew up with fellow Macksville local and former rugby league footballer; Greg Inglis.

Phillip Hughes was wearing a helmet, but the ball struck an unprotected area just below his left ear.

Phillip Hughes collapsed before receiving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and was taken to St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, where he underwent surgery and was placed into an induced coma.

Phillip Hughes' injury was a rare but described type of sport-related blunt-force cerebrovascular injury called a vertebral artery dissection which led to subarachnoid haemorrhage.

The final result of the investigation was that the death of Phillip Hughes was a tragic accident arising from a minuscule misjudgement from the batsman and no players or umpires were at fault.

Phillip Hughes' funeral was held on 3 December 2014 at Macksville High School, in a Catholic ceremony.

Phillip Hughes was named and listed as "the 13th man" for the first Test, and his test cap number 408 was sewn under the badge of all Australian players and painted on the field, and there were 63 seconds of applause before the start of the match.

When Warner passed 63 in the fourth Test at the SCG, he kissed the ground near to the place where Phillip Hughes was fatally injured.

Matthew Wade has a likeness of Phillip Hughes tattooed on his right forearm.