Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes dies after being hit by a bouncer Cricketnext Staff | November 27, 2014 10:22 AM 25-year-old Australia cricketer Phillip Hughes died at Sydneys St. Vincents Hospital on Wednesday after failing to recover from a blow on the head he suffered while batting in a Sheffield Shield match three days ago. Hughes, who was rushed to the hospital, in a critical state failed to recover after a surgery and remained in induced coma in the intensive care unit before succumbing to his injury. Hughes played 26 Tests for Australia, scoring 3 hundreds and 7 fifties while making 1535 runs. He also played 25 ODIs and a T20 international. Australia team doctor Peter Brukner issued a statement saying: It is my sad duty to inform you that a short time ago Phillip Hughes passed away. He never regained consciousness following his injury on Tuesday. Brukner said Hughes, 25, was not in pain, and was surrounded by his family and close friends. Hughes had spent a second night in a Sydney hospital in an induced coma after having emergency surgery to relieve pressure on his brain. The batsman was struck on the head by a ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground, a devastating blow experts compared to the trauma suffered by victims of a car crash. News of Hughes death followed calls by former players for the Australian team to abandon the first test match against India next week. Questions about the response time of ambulances dispatched to the stadium were also raised. The head of New South Wales Ambulance was to be hauled before the state health minister Jillian Skinner on Thursday after the ambulance authority issued conflicting statements about their response times. The arrival of the first ambulance took 15 minutes, NSW Ambulance clarified in a statement on Wednesday. The states median response time for the highest priority life-threatening cases was just under eight minutes in 2013-14, according the authoritys statistics. Due to the conflicting information distributed today by NSW Ambulance regarding (Tuesdays) response to the Sydney Cricket Ground, I will be meeting with NSW Ambulance Commissioner Ray Creen tomorrow to discuss the circumstances surrounding the incident, Skinner said. Dr Peter Larkins, a leading sports physician, told Reuters: Time is of the essence when your brain has suffered trauma. Family and players had maintained their vigil at Hughes bedside.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 09:14:20 +0000
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