Career details of Philip Hughes

Full name:  Phillip Joel Hughes

Born:  November 30, 1988, Macksville, New South Wales

Died: November 27, 2014, Sydney (aged 25 years 362 days)

Major teams:  Australia, Australia A, Australia Under-19s,East Torrens, Hampshire, Middlesex, Mumbai Indians,New South Wales, New South Wales Under-19s,South Australia, Western Suburbs, Worcestershire

Playing role:  Opening batsman

Batting style:  Left-hand bat

Fielding position: Occasional wicketkeeper

Batting and fielding averages
Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Tests 26 49 2 1535 160 32.65 2866 53.55 3 7 199 11 15 0
ODIs 25 24 1 826 138* 35.91 1100 75.09 2 4 91 5 5 0
T20Is 1 1 0 6 6 6.00 8 75.00 0 0 1 0 0 0
First-class 114 209 15 9023 243* 46.51 15798 57.11 26 46 1229 46 72 0
List A 91 89 12 3639 202* 47.25 4671 77.90 8 23 364 35 30 0
Twenty20 34 34 8 1110 87* 42.69 947 117.21 0 10 112 16 16 0
Bowling averages
Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10
Tests 26
ODIs 25
T20Is 1
First-class 114 3 24 14 0 3.50 0 0 0
List A 91
Twenty20 34

 

Career statistics
Test debut South Africa v Australia at Johannesburg, Feb 26-Mar 2, 2009
Last Test England v Australia at Lord’s, Jul 18-21, 2013
ODI debut Australia v Sri Lanka at Melbourne, Jan 11, 2013
Last ODI Australia v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Oct 12, 2014
Only T20I Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Oct 5, 2014
First-class debut New South Wales v Tasmania at Sydney, Nov 20-23, 2007
Last First-class New South Wales v South Australia at Sydney, Nov 25, 2014
List A debut Victoria v New South Wales at Melbourne, Nov 28, 2007
Last List A Australia v Pakistan at Abu Dhabi, Oct 12, 2014
Twenty20 debut Queensland v New South Wales at Brisbane, Dec 26, 2008
Last Twenty20 Australia v Pakistan at Dubai (DSC), Oct 5, 2014

Recent matches
Bat & Bowl Team Opposition Ground Match Date Scorecard
63* South Aust v NSW Sydney 25 Nov 2014 FC
7, 11 South Aust v Victoria Adelaide 16 Nov 2014 FC
20, 69 South Aust v NSW Adelaide 8 Nov 2014 FC
14, 65 Australians v Pakistan A Sharjah 15 Oct 2014 Other
5 Australia v Pakistan Abu Dhabi 12 Oct 2014 ODI # 3534
6 Australia v Pakistan Dubai (DSC) 5 Oct 2014 T20I # 406
15 Australia v South Africa Harare 6 Sep 2014 ODI # 3526
85 Australia v South Africa Harare 2 Sep 2014 ODI # 3522
10 Australia v Zimbabwe Harare 31 Aug 2014 ODI # 3521
51 Australia v South Africa Harare 27 Aug 2014 ODI # 3516

Profile

If a textbook technique was the sole criterion for a first-class opener then Phillip Hughes would be out of a job. But then, the same could have been said of the shuffling Simon Katich. The most important thing as far as Australia’s selectors are concerned is that Hughes picks up plenty of runs from his country-baked technique, which includes compulsive slicing through point and slashing to cover, as well as stepping away to provide room for tennis-style drives down the ground. His perceived weakness against the short ball helped him in South Africa in 2009, when he used the pace of Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel against them and he was the youngest man to score a century in each innings of a Test when he managed the feat in Durban in his second Test. But after his stunning rise as the replacement for the retired Matthew Hayden, the fall was swift; after he was roughed up by Andrew Flintoff and failed at Lord’s he broke the news of his dropping on Twitter. He remained the Test backup opener and in Wellington in 2010 he finished off the win with a brutal 86 off 75 balls. He replaced the injured Katich for three Tests of the 2010-11 Ashes and despite struggling, he finished the Shield season strongly and was first in line to become Shane Watson’s full-time partner when Katich lost his contract. A third Test century arrived in Colombo in 2011 but later that year he could not stop edging Chris Martin of New Zealand and was again dropped. Returned to the side once more against Sri Lanka in 2012-13, Hughes struggled against spin on the Test tour of India that followed and although he played the first two Ashes Tests in England in 2013, he faced the axe again after a lean Lord’s Test. The Australians hoped Hughes would live up to the promise he’d shown when at 19 he became the youngest to score a century in a Pura Cup final. He had debuted for his state at 18, after moving to Sydney from northern New South Wales, where he grew up on a banana farm.

 

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