Full name :Phillip Joel Hughes
Born on: November 30, 1988, Macksville, New South Wales
Died :November 27, 2014, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney (aged 25 years 362 days)
Major teams :Australia, Australia A, Australia Under-19s, East Torrens, Hampshire, Middlesex, Mumbai Indians, New South Wales, New South Wales Under-19s, South Australia, Western Suburbs, Worcestershire
Playing role :Opening batsman
Batting style :Left-hand bat
Fielding position :Occasional wicketkeeper
Profile:
Phillip Hughes, who died after being hit by a guard than a week before his 26th birthday, was a precocious talent who expects great things Australian cricket.
At 19, Hughes underlined why he was one of the most talented young people around when he became the youngest player to score a century in a Pura Cup final Sheffield Shield /. Just months before death Hughes Australia captain Michael Clarke had warned him to be a man of 100-Test.
If a technical textbook was the only criterion for a starter class then Hughes would not have made a rapid ascent internationally. The most important with respect to the selectors of Australia was that Hughes got a lot of tennis technical baked-country, which included compulsive cut through point and rubs to cover and away from providing space for units style court on the ground.
Your perceived weakness against the short ball helped in South Africa in 2009, when he used the pace of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel against them and was the youngest player to score a century in each innings of a test man when he accomplished the feat in Durban, in his second test.
But after his impressive rise as the replacement for the retired Matthew Hayden, the fall was swift; after he was mistreated by Andrew Flintoff and failed in the Lord broke the news of his death in Twitter. He remained the first game backup and test in Wellington in 2010 topped the victory with a brutal 86 off 75 balls. He replaced the injured Simon Katich three Ashes Tests in 2010-11 despite the struggle, which ended the season strongly Shield and was the first in line to become full-time partner Shane Watson when Katich lost his contract. A third Test century came to Colombo in 2011, but later that year could not stop edging Chris Martin of New Zealand and dropped again.
Returned to side once more against Sri Lanka in 2012-13, Hughes fought twist on a trial trip of India that followed and even played the first two Ashes Tests in England in 2013, the ax again faced after proof of a thin man.
It had taken nearly four years after its debut on the event Hughes break into the Australian part of a day, but he showed his limited-overs potential in July 2014, when he became the first Australia to score a double century in a A party list.
A month later made the highest score his first-class career, an unbeaten 243 for Australia A as a claim of a recall test was played.
There was to be no more additions to his 26 caps but like, three months later, he was taken to hospital after a nasty hit a short ball during a game Shield. He never regained consciousness and died of his wounds. He was 25 years.
