Phillip Hughes emotional Farewell

 

Gregory Hughes

Jason Hughes

Michael Clarke

Corey Ireland

Mitchell Lonergan

Matthew Day

Aaron Finch

Tom Cooper were among Phillip Hughes' pallbearers, Macksville.

The Australia captain can be seen blowing a gentle kiss in the direction of Phillip Hughes' coffin inside School Hall, Macksville.

Former Aussie bowler Shane Warne and Former West Indies batsman Brian Lara arrive for the funeral of batsman Phillip Hughes in Macksville

India's cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar has paid tribute to Phillip Hughes following his funeral.

Michael Clarke delivered a tearful tribute to his friend in an emotional address at Wednesday's ceremony

Phillip Hughes hometown set for big farewell

Phil Hughes' untimely death, it missing the entire cricketing landscape in a state of shock. Now, the cricket world is getting ready to attend Hughes' funeral and pay emotional tributes to him in his home town of Macksville in New South Wales. Here are the particulars related to funeral of Hughes as reported by Cricket Australia

The funeral will be held on December 3 at Macksville High School, Macksville, New South Wales. To attend the funeral, additional flights have been planned by Qantas and Virgin Australia to travel to Coffs Harbour airport. It is the nearest airport to Macksville.

Around 5000 people are predictable to be in mourning at Macksville and preparations have been made for the same. Phil Hughes' family is also apparently touched with the public support shown so far and want as many people as likely to attend the funeral. 

The whole Australian Test squad along with the New South Wales squad is likely to be in attendance. 

Australia beat Sri Lanka in the Final ODI and Square the Series 2-2

Australia have came back after  the absense  of skipper  Michael Clarke and averted ruin by level  the one day series against Sri Lanka at 2-2 with a hard 32 runs  win  at Bellerive.

The unbeaten hundred  from Phil Hughes and three wickets each from Xavier Doherty and Moises Henriques have guide  the Australia  side to a fighting win after they were behind 2-1 in the series.

Phillip  Hughes smashed  138 from 154 balls, his career best  ODI score, to secure Australia's 5 for 247 and set up a scary run chase for Sri Lanka. Doherty (3 for 21) then dismissed  three of the Sri Lankan’s  top four and Henriques (3 for 32) made vital breakthroughs to pull Australia off the canvas.

Sri Lanka  were 1 for 57 when Mahela Jayawardene, in his final  match as skipper, was caught for 38 from 39.  Doherty strike again in his next over when he had Lahiru Thirimanne (1 off  10) caught in the deep at 2-62. When Henriques had Tillakaratne Dilshan (19 off  48) caught behind it was 3-71 and Xavier Doherty bowled Dinesh Chandimal (6 off  10) for 4-77.

A important  79 runs  partnerships  between Angelo Mathews (67 off  79) and Jeevan Mendis (26 off 40) for the 6th  wicket .Finally Sri Lanka bowled out for 215 runs in 48.3 overs.  Phillip Hughes got Man of the Match award and Nuwan Kulasekara named for the Player of the Series.

Phillip Hughes stars as Australia thrash Sri Lanka in the 1st ODI

Phil Hughes was  the first Australian to score a hundred on his one day international debut as he powered the side to a 107 run win over Sri Lanka at MCG on Friday.

Phillip Hughes made  112 runs  and stand in captain George Bailey scored  89 runs before David Hussey smashed unbeaten  60  off 34 balls to post  a good total into a commanding 305 for 5 in 50 overs  on a flat Melbourne  wicket.

Dinesh Chandimal reserved Sri Lanka in contention with a aggressive 73 runs  but four wickets from Clint McKay and some excellent fielding, including three run outs, restricted the Sri Lanka  to 198 runs  in reply. Victory finished a three match losing streak against Sri Lanka at the MCG.

Australia  won the test series 3 0, lead the five match  series 1-0 with the 2nd  game on Sunday in  Adelaide. Opener Aaron Finch and number three Usman Khawaja managed just 16 and three respectively after Australia won the toss but Phillip Hughes put on 140 for the 3rd  wicket alongside George Bailey at the rate of a run a ball. Hughes named for the Man of the Match award for maiden Cenutury.