"That day, that week, that helpless, hopeless fortnight comes at you 10 years later in a blur of images the bowler cradling Phillip Hughes' head, the teammate removing his pads... Hughes' death certainly stirred the public in ways we'd never before seen."
"It was a reminder that sport is ultimately a shared experience, and that not all such actions are conjured up by sponsors, or administrators or broadcasters. It was a reminder of something else..."
"Cricketers, whether at Christmas lunch or at Lord's, take guard and assess their options. Cricketers raise their bat, curse their luck and shadow stroke the shot they should have played. And cricketers always go home."
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