IN REMEMBRANCE - FOREVER 63 NOT OUT



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P. J. HUGHES
(30 Nov 1988 – 27 Nov 2014)

"In his baggy green cap, the Australian cricketer bounces down the pavilion steps with an inbuilt spirit of adventure. It is no cliché to say he carries his nation's optimistic tendencies on to the field. That bounce will now become a sad and wary trudge."

  Paul Hayward, The Telegraph.
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Beginning from George Summers in 1870 to 2014, there have been a dozen who tragically left this world due to mishaps on the cricket field. The list includes an English umpire as well...

It was this day in 2014 that the cricketing world lost Australian Phillip Joel Hughes, just three days prior to his 26th birthday...

The left-handed New South Wales and Australian opening batsman, Hughes the youngest cricketer to score a century in each innings of a Test match, played 26 such scoring 1535 runs with 3 centuries and 7 fifties, 160 as his highest...

The first Australian to score an ODI century on debut, Hughes scored 826 from 25 games with 2 centuries and 4 fifties, 138* as his highest...

Hughes was picked by Mumbai Indians in 2013 for the sixth IPL edition, but never got to play a game...

On 25 November 2014, Hughes was felled by a bouncer on the neck whilst batting, with his score of 63, in a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground. The ensuing hemorrhage was operated upon at the St. Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, but Hughes never regained consciousness, and passed away this day, eleven years ago...

Glowing tributes paid to the departed soul, from several quarters, underline the magnitude of the tragedy, the last till date, that snuffed out the life of a promising cricketer from Down Under...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillip_Hughes

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