Phillip hughes death: How Australia cricket is still affected

How Australia cricket is still affected - and will continue to be so - by the death of Phillip Hughes 10 years ago. Felled by a Sean Abbott bouncer in a Sheffield Shield game at the Sydney Cricket Ground on November 25, 2014, Hughes (25) never recovered and passed away on November 27. Shock rippled through... The cricket world received a terrible jolt when Phillip Hughes died at the age of 25 after being struck by a bouncer on the side of his head, below the helmet. Playing a Shield game in Sydney ... Phillip Hughes, who died after being struck by a bouncer a week before his 26th birthday, was a precocious talent from whom Australian cricket expected big things.