RIP PHIL HUDGES Deaths in sport carry more power to shock than deaths elsewhere. We turn to sport to get away from the cares of everyday life. In most newspapers you have death, war, destruction and horror at the front, and then, at the back, as far away as possible, you have all the joys and frivolities of sport. Death has no place here. Thats why, when it happens, its so peculiarly devastating. The death of the Australian batsman Phillip Hughes makes that desperately clear. Phillip Hughes was the victim of a freakish accident, the kind that is rarely seen in any sphere of life and has only once before been recorded as the result of being struck by a cricket ball.
Posted on: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 09:17:51 +0000