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63 not out. In cricketing terms, it’s a ‘start’.
The beginning of a long, and potentially prosperous innings that should translate into a century.
For Phillip Hughes it was supposed to be a start.
Batting for South Australia against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Tuesday, Hughes was closing in on his 27th first class ton and on his way back into the Test team.
The boy from Macksville had been in-and-out of the national team since making his debut in 2009, but observers knew it was a matter of when, not if, Hughes would come to realise the immense talent he contained.
Next week at the ‘Gabba, Hughes was supposed to take steps toward becoming the batsman everyone knew he could be – a daring, left-hander who made the offside his playground.
It was supposed to be the start of Hughes’ best cricket, instead the country is in mourning and an entire sport is at its knees.
25 years old. In terms of life, it’s just the start.
At that age, time should be on your side. There are joyous memories to recall but there are also many to be had.
For Phillip Hughes his innings has been tragically cut short, doing something he had done thousands of times before and something he loved doing.
An average bouncer struck him, like we’ve all seen before in a cricket match.
Catastrophically, this was a devastating blow, in more ways than can be told.
A son, a brother, a teammate and by all accounts a ripping man has been lost. For the past few days I’ve thought ‘why couldn’t the ball have hit the seam and moved in or away’, ‘why couldn’t it have been a split-second slower or faster’ or ‘why did this happen’.
It’s a freak accident – one in a billion according to a neurologist.
It never should’ve happened and the game has been robbed of a brilliant yet unfulfilled talent but more importantly the world has lost a young man, who epitomised everything the baggy green is worth.
63 and never out. Rest In Peace, Phillip Hughes.
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