The cricketing world is in grief and will continue to be that way for a while following the death of 25-year-old Australian batsman Phillip Hughes.

This grief is unique because never before in the history of Test cricket has a current Test player so young succumbed to death while playing a game. Hughes was to play next week’s Test against India in Brisbane what with skipper Michael Clarke’s injury ruining his chances to play the first game of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.