Former Australia opening batter Hughes died in 2014 after being struck on the head by a short ball during a Sheffield Shield match. 

While Hughes tragically died on November 27, 2014, Cricket Australia chose to pay tribute to him during this day-night Test match

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Despite being in the rich vein in form, the dark day arrived for Australia as the left-hander got a ball hit on the side of his head below the helmet during a domestic match. Playing a Shield game in Sydney, Hughes was hit when he missed an attempted hook, causing a cerebral haemorrhage. The batsman was unbeaten on 63 runs

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Commentating on Sky Sports, ex-England captain Kevin Pietersen said, “Imagine if he [Lyon] had been hit on the head and got concussion, he’d have got a like-for-like replacement,” Pietersen said.

David Warner, who is serving a 12-month ban from international and state cricket for his role in a ball tampering scandal, was batting for his club Randwick-Petersham at the time on Saturday

Australian cricketer Sean Abbott, who bowled the bouncer that struck and killed Phillip Hughes, was involved in another chilling incident that felled a batsman in the domestic Sheffield Shield yesterday

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Ian Chappell pays tribute to exiting Australia captain's leadership qualities, says&nbsp;Clarke always sought victory from the first ball and showed that leadership wasn&rsquo;t totally foreign to him in the wake of the Phillip Hughes tragedy in 2014

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