Phillip Hughes: the loss of a daring and bright-eyed future is still keenly felt | Geoff Lemon

'The ranks of bats placed in tribute on front porches and outside dressing rooms across the country and then the world, they were testament to the waiting. Symbols of a mass vigil, the need to do anything to counter the feeling of helplessness and of isolation.'

'That became a way for people to signal their distress, externalise it, show solidarity. Across suburbs and cities and towns, each pocket of sadness now linking with the next, twinkling into view like streetlights on a distant range.'

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