Phillip Joel Hughes (30 November 1988 – 27 November 2014) was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20.

Phillip Hughes

Hughes in February 2010
Personal information
Full name	Phillip Joel Hughes
Born	(1988-11-30)30 November 1988 Macksville, New South Wales, Australia
Died	27 November 2014(2014-11-27) (aged 25) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname	Hughesy, Little Don, Hugh Dog
Height	170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Batting	Left-handed
Bowling	Right-arm off break
Role	Top order batsman, substitute wicketkeeper
International information
National side	Australia
Test debut (cap 408)	26 February 2009 v South Africa
Last Test	18 July 2013 v England
ODI debut (cap 198)	11 January 2013 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI	12 October 2014 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no.	64 (retired in remembrance)
Domestic team information
Years	Team
2007–12	New South Wales
2009	Middlesex
2010	Hampshire
2011–12	Sydney Thunder
2012	Worcestershire
2013–14	South Australia
2012–14	Adelaide Strikers
2013	Mumbai Indians
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA Matches 26 25 114 91 Runs scored 1,535 826 9,023 3,639 Batting average 32.66 35.91 46.51 47.25 100s/50s 3/7 2/4 26/46 8/23 Top score 160 138* 243* 202* Balls bowled  –  – 24  – Wickets  –  – 0  – Bowling average  –  –  –  – 5 wickets in innings  –  –  –  – 10 wickets in match  – n/a  – n/a Best bowling  –  –  –  – Catches/stumpings 15/– 5/– 72/– 30/–
Source: CricketArchive, 25 November 2014

Hughes scored his first Test century in March 2009, aged 20, in his second Test match for Australia, opening the batting and hitting 115 in the first innings against South Africa in Durban. This made Hughes Australia's youngest Test centurion since Doug Walters in 1965. In the second innings of the same match, Hughes scored 160, becoming the youngest cricketer in history to score centuries in both innings of a Test match (Australia won the match by 175 runs). On 11 January 2013, he became the first Australian batsman in the history of ODI cricket to score a century on debut, a feat which he achieved against Sri Lanka in Melbourne.

On 25 November 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a bouncer, during a Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, causing a vertebral artery dissection that led to a subarachnoid haemorrhage. The Australian team doctor, Peter Brukner, noted that only 100 such cases had ever been reported, with "only one case reported as a result of a cricket ball". Hughes was taken to St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, where he underwent surgery, was placed into an induced coma and was in intensive care in a critical condition. He died on 27 November, having never regained consciousness, three days before his 26th birthday.

Phil Hughes batting