5 cricketers who died young?

#1 Phil Hughes

Hughes was one of the most talented cricketers we lost too early

This was one of the incidents that shook the cricketing fraternity to the core. Whilst defending the crest of South Australia in a Sheffield Shield game against New South Wales, Sean Abbott’s bouncer hit him in the neck and he lost consciousness on the pitch.

He was rushed to the St. Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney where he received surgery and was placed in an induced coma from which he never regained consciousness. Two days later, on 27th November, 2014, Hughes succumbed to his injury – just 3 days before his 26th birthday – and died, leaving the world in a state of shock.

To this day, Sean Abbott hasn’t been able to play international games since that incident as the events gave him a drastic psychological blow.