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Bounced out! Rest well Philip Hughes

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Photo: Philip Hughes (Getty Images)

“I’ve never seen anything killed by a cricket ball before.” “You haven’t yet. He’ll wake up in a few minutes.” That’s the well known quote by one ― David A. McIntee, Lords of the Storm – but cricket Australia now realizes that is not entirely true as they were left in shock today as their young international cricket star Philip Hughes was has succumbed to his injury suffered on Tuesday while playing in a local cricket match.

The South Australia batsman, who would have turned 26 on Sunday, was fatally injured when hit by a “bouncer,” (a short ball that bounces up towards the batsman’s torso), near his left ear — the ball somehow evading the cricketer’s helmet as he swiveled to play a shot.The ball was delivered by Local Australian bowler Sean Abbott.

The ball hit the side of his neck and as a result of that blow, his vertebral artery was compressed by the ball. That caused the artery to split and for bleeding to go up into the brain. Hughes had massive bleed into his brain.

He had to be placed in an induced coma at a hospital in Sydney, from which he failed to recover.

The cricketing world is now saddened by the snatching away of the young life. Hughes was one who was loved and admired and respected by his teammates and by legions of cricket fans.

He made his first class debut for New South Wales cricket team at tender age of 18 and went on to become the youngest batsman ever to make two centuries in the same test- achieving the feat away to South Africa as a 20 year old in 2009. He was then compared to the likes of cricketing great Sir Don Bradman.

Up to the time of his death he had played 26 times for Australia, the most recent being against England 2013. He tallied 8960 runs at an average of 46.19 with 26 centuries and 45 half centuries in test Cricket. He had 25 ODI caps with highest score of 138 runs and a single T20 cap for Team Australia.

Hughes had a score 63 runs on the cricketing board when the tragic accident happened on Tuesday.

Tributes continues to flow in from the cricketing world for the 25-year old, who had been hoping to regain his place in the team for next week’s Test match against India, has lived for the game and the game he lived for, the impact of one cricket ball, bounced him from the face of the earth.

R.I.P Phil Hughes.

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