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Phil Hughes

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Truly shattering news. My deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his family and friends.
Seen a lot of bouncers over the years, and they are exciting, but this is just tragic.

My thoughts also go out to Sean Abbott, how must that poor young man feel. I really hope that he gets lots of counselling and support.
 
mightynineteen said:
Truly shattering news. My deepest sympathies and condolences go out to his family and friends.
Seen a lot of bouncers over the years, and they are exciting, but this is just tragic.

My thoughts also go out to Sean Abbott, how must that poor young man feel. I really hope that he gets lots of counselling and support.
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Well said.

RIP.
 

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No one should die playing sport - get hurt maybe but not die. This sickened me to my stomach. I know it is a freak accident but the impact on everyone involved is devastating. My thoughts are to his family, friends and team mates. And to the young bowler who just did what he was expected to do. The image of the NSW cradling his body is something that will linger in my mind for years and years to come. May he rest in peace
 
Crushed by the news of Phil Hughes passing. Died playing the game he loved. Freak accident !

Heart goes out to Sean Abbott (bowler), he will be doing it extremely tough. Will need massive support during this time. Hope the young man recovers from this. Apparently he spent a lot of time with Phillips sister post this accident.
 
Devastating news. A huge tragedy for the cricketing world and sport in general. Guy was the definition of a hard worker, got knocked back a number of times and instead of dropping his head he'd smile and work even harder to be the best he could be. Thoughts are with his family and friends and also with Sean Abbott in this incredibly tragic time.

RIP Phil.
 

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Ironically, just 2 days before this happened, I was watching a box set of highlights of the South Africa v Australia Test series recently completed.

Having not seen any of it before, I sat and thoroughly enjoyed the action. However, one thing did concern me. That was the number of batsmen who were taking their eyes off the ball before playing a shot. I was taught as a youngster to keep your eye on the ball, and when playing a shot, to watch the ball right onto the bat.

I watched in amazement at Michael Clarke on several occasions turning his head and allowing balls from Morne Morkell to strike him. At one stage he went to walk from the crease and his legs nearly buckled underneath him. I recall thinking that this was a very risky way to be playing a quick bowler, especially for a batsman as talented as Clarke. History shows he worked through it and made an unbeaten century.

Several slow motion replays showed batsmen not watching the ball onto the bat and some even had their eyes closed when making contact. At one time a commentator exclaimed, "How did he hit that for 4, he wasn't even watching it", or words to that effect. I am extremely concerned about the effects the limited over game (especially T20) is having on a batsman's technique. The need to smash every ball for 4 is teaching batsmen to take extraordinary risks that increases their chances of being hit.

A week before this, I went to see my local club play and Shaun Tait was opening the bowling. As usual he was developing real heat. At one stage he bowled a snake of a delivery which kicked just short of the length and kicked up to chin height. To his absolute credit, the batsman kept his eye on the ball, dropped his hands underneath so as not to get a nick, and then swayed his head out of the way and allowed the ball to pass. This is the required method, but too many times these days, a batsman is drawn into a shot and when the ball gets big on him, he turns away from it. This is why so many players are being hit these days.

I have no problem with investigations into suitable head gear, but I think we need to dig much deeper than that for answers.
 
It's just so horrible, almost surreal. RIP.

Feel for Abbott too.
 
Shattered! Thoughts with your family RIP Phil
 
Sad news, and a bloody unthinkable state of affairs.

Given how hard a cricket ball is, and how much it's played, it's amazing this doesn't happen more often - seems nuts that it's an elite batsman who copped it too. There's plenty of weekend warriors facing fast bowling with worse ability and head gear.

Doesn't help the poor guy though. Such a sad day for all involved.
 

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Just awful news :( Was hoping he would pull through but from the first reports I think deep down I knew it was highly unlikely. Feel for his family, friends and the other cricketers, especially Sean Abbott.
 
I could play footy and run head first into a stoppage or run back into a pack, I was never scared on the footy field but gee opening the batting had me shitting my pants.

Unless you've actually done it, you can't imagine the feeling you get facing a new red ball and how quick these guys are now something like this was bound to happen.

Sad day for sport, sad day for Australia. This incident is just sickening and I wish nothing but peace and harmony to Highes's family and friends in this terribly hard time.

RIP you legend!
 
It is impossible to add anything constructive to any condolences that will be said.

This will sound harsh, but we should remember that we are all only an incident away from our fate. That of course is of no condolence to Phil’s family.

Even harsher is the reality that it is the living who carry the burden of remorse.

RIP Phil
 

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