Sydney: As news of the shock death of Test cricketer Phillip Hughes spread yesterday, Australian television channels offered wall-to-wall coverage.


Shattered: Australian skipper Michael Clarke at a press conference in Sydney. Pic/AFP 

TV footage showed many Australian cricketers, past and present, visiting St Vincent's Hospital in the morning. Sombre images of — Steve Waugh, Michael Clarke, Shane Watson, Mitchell Starc, Brad Haddin and Steve Smith — among others walking out of the hospital visibly distressed were beamed across the networks. Test opener David Warner was seen leaving the hospital in tears with his wife.