The Hughes family shook their heads, muttered, scoffed, even walked out. Several times they cried.
Mostly they sat silently during the evidence they said was false.
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Day five of the Phil Hughes inquest
The fifth day of the inquest into the death of cricketer Phil Hughes.Vision courtesy: ABC News 24
For the past five days, the NSW Coroner's Court has investigated the death of Phillip Hughes, the 25-year-old cricketer killed by a ball that pitched short and bounced high, twisting his neck and tearing an artery.
"The evidence shows that the play in the lead-up to Phillip Hughes' death did not increase the risk of injury," counsel assisting the coroner, Kristina Stern, SC, said in her final submissions on Friday.
The family - concerned about sledging and bowling tactics - thought otherwise.
In a letter to the coroner, Hughes's father Greg said "slanderous comments made and the use of illegal deliveries in my eyes lead to a very unsafe workplace."
The family's lawyer, Greg Melick, SC, said: "There was a plan, there was sledging, and short-pitched balls were bowled at Phillip Hughes, which increased the risk of an injury."
Mr Melick called the evidence of top NSW and Australian cricketers "inherently unbelievable".
![Phillip Hughes was struck and killed by a short ball delivered in a 2014 Sheffield Shield game.](/web/20161016232822im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/1/2/0/r/k/p/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gs24v3.png/1476420775537.jpg)
The NSW bowler Doug Bollinger allegedly said "I'm going to kill you" in the direction of Hughes and his batting partner Tom Cooper at the 2014 Sheffield Shield game at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
Cooper, and Hughes' opponents Brad Haddin, David Warner and Sean Abbott, all said they did not hear sledging, despite it being a common part of the game. Bollinger denied saying the words.
![Phillip Hughes' brother Jason arrives at the inquest on Friday.](/web/20161016232822im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/2/b/4/d/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gs24v3.png/1476420775537.jpg)
But Hughes' brother Jason said Cooper told him of the sledge. Another cricketer, Matthew Day, said he heard Bollinger regret saying it when they were at an impromptu wake.
"The failure to remember or admit that [sledging] occurred must cast serious doubt on the accuracy of other parts of their evidence," Mr Melick said.
![Late cricketer Phil Hughes' parents Greg and Virginia Hughes arrive at the inquest into his death on Friday.](/web/20161016232822im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/2/b/4/i/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gs24v3.png/1476420775537.jpg)
Two umpires on the day and a reviewer from the International Cricket Council found no "dangerous or unfair" bowling. The NSW players said there was no strategy to concentrate short deliveries at Hughes.
Cricket Australia's counsel Bruce Hodgkinson, SC, defended the player's testimony, saying any suggestion of fabricated evidence was both "unsupported and unsupportable".
![Megan Hughes, the sister of the late cricketer Phillip Hughes, arrives at the inquest into his death on Friday.](/web/20161016232822im_/http://www.theage.com.au/content/dam/images/g/s/2/b/4/c/image.related.articleLeadwide.620x349.gs24v3.png/1476420775537.jpg)
Mr Hodgkinson said unsworn evidence - such as the sledge allegation in Day's statement - should not be weighed against sworn evidence. At that point Greg Hughes, his wife Virginia and Jason walked out of Court 5.1.
Later, when Mr Hodgkinson paid tribute to Hughes on behalf of Cricket Australia, Jason and his sister Megan laughed.
The family accepted the death was inevitable from the moment the ball struck Hughes in the neck at 2.23pm on November 25, 2014.
Nothing could be done once the ball inflicted an injury more commonly seen in one-punch homicide victims, one seen on the cricket pitch in only one other confirmed case.
The evidence about ambulance calls, response times, emergency signals and medical training was directed at future accidents.
Ms Stern commended cricket authorities and the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust for introducing more emergency response training of staff and pre-match medical briefings.
However, she called for some emergency procedures to be made clearer, as well as the rules defining bouncers, which must be limited to two per over.
Ms Stern said that, where a player's neck guard falls and knocks off the wickets' bails, the player ought not to be dismissed.
Coroner Michael Barnes is set to deliver his findings on November 4.