Hughes' family suggests change to laws of cricket over neck guards
The family of Phillip Hughes has recommended to the coronial inquest into his death that the laws of cricket be altered around neck guards.
Chris Barrett is a Sports Writer with The Sydney Morning Herald.
The family of Phillip Hughes has recommended to the coronial inquest into his death that the laws of cricket be altered around neck guards.
Whatever the findings of the coronial inquest into Phillip Hughes's death, it is likely that nothing will bridge the enormous and painful gulf between the Hughes family and the game in which their son and brother fell.
The search is on for a new chairman of selectors with Marsh moving on from the role after his contract expires next June.
Trevor Hohns and Mark Waugh, the others on the four-man panel alongside head coach Darren Lehmann, are candidates to take over although CA is also weighing up other options.
It was the evening Australia's cricket fraternity and friends and family of Phillip Hughes came together, united in grief at the passing hours earlier of their son, brother and mate.
NSW bowler Sean Abbott has recalled how he was left confused and upset in the aftermath of the tragic incident in which a delivery he sent down in a Sheffield Shield match two years ago fatally injured Phillip Hughes.
David Warner and Tom Cooper were the latest cricketers to give evidence as questioning continued about short bowling and sledging on the day the former Test batsman was hit.
The Phillip Hughes inquest has heard that the match between NSW and South Australia was played in ''a good spirit''.
The all-rounder is confident the Blues can go back to back in the domestic one-day tournament despite the absence of Australian stars Steve Smith and Mitchell Starc.
Despite being dropped in Sri Lanka the 29-year-old is expected to come straight back into the Australian side for the first Test against South Africa in Perth.
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