Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International cricketer. He played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He made his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20, and made his ODI debut in 2013. On 25 November 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. He was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He never regained consciousness, and died on 27 November, three days before his 26th birthday.
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Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He made his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20, and made his ODI debut in 2013. On 25 November 2014, 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 haemorrhage. He was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He never regained consciousness, and died on 27 November, three days before his 26th birthday. Hughes was also a talented rugby league footballer who once played alongside former Australia international Greg Inglis. He 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. He represented Australia at the 2008 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Hughes played for Middlesex on a short-term contract, as cover for Murali Kartik, for the beginning of the 2009 cricket season. He enjoyed strong success in England, scoring 574 runs in three first-class matches, including three hundreds, including all three Stanford Super Series matches. Despite holding an Italian passport by virtue of his mother, Middlesex resisted signing him as a Kolpak player and instead signed him up as a foreign player. He also played in the Friends Provident Trophy Championship, all eight of Middlesex’s group matches and the few matches in the defence of the Twenty20 Cup.
In the first eight matches of the Championship, he scored all eight runs at an average of 62. 11 with one century and six 50s. At 19 years of age, this innings made him the youngest-ever player to score a century in affield Shield final. He scored 116 off 175 balls in the Blues’ second innings to help put his team in a commanding position. At 18 years and 355 days, he was the youngest New South Wales debutant since Michael Clarke in 1999. Hughes opened the batting and got his career off to a solid start, scoring a fluent 51 and taking 2 catches and earning an upgrade to a full state contract for the 2008–09 season. Hughes had an outstanding debut season for New South Australia, playing seven matches and scoring 559 runs at a average of 63. 11. In a comfortable victory over Victoria, Hughes won the New South South Wales Rising Star Award and earned an upgrade into a full State contract. He then played his first senior game against Tasmania on 20 November 2007 at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In his second Test match for Australia, aged 20, he hit 115 in the first innings against South Africa in Durban. This made Hughes Australia’s youngest Test centurion since Doug Walters in 1965. He became the first Australian batsman in the history of ODI cricket to score an ODI century on debut, a feat which he achieved against Sri Lanka in Melbourne.
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