Daniel Brettig

Smith prospers through patience

Michael Clarke's hundreds are now rarer, but Steven Smith and David Warner have taken up the slack. In Adelaide they have played sweetly either side of Clarke to underline the gathering depth in Australia's batting.

10-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

'My little mate was down the other end'

Mere days after he was unable to bat in the nets, David Warner reckoned his first-day hundred against India the finest of his career, but admitted he will face further demons when the Test team returns in the new year to Sydney and the scene of Phillip Hu

09-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Warner's blue sky hundred

No cricketer was closer to Phillip Hughes in the horrible hour between his collapse and conveyance to hospital than David Warner. The emotion of Warner's hundred in Adelaide was apparent all the way through

09-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Clarke retires hurt with back injury

Michael Clarke left Adelaide Oval for further treatment after retiring hurt with an apparent relapse of his chronic back condition during day one of the first Test against India

09-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Clarke steels for start of big summer

After a harrowing fortnight, Australia's captain tries to get back to meeting on-field challenges

08-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig

Johnson finds a soldier's resolve

In grappling with Phillip Hughes' loss, the words of Australian SAS soldier and Victoria Cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith have grown in significance for Mitchell Johnson

08-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig

Clarke to play, Marsh and Hazlewood left out

Michael Clarke will lead Australia in what will be an emotional first Test against India in Adelaide, after being passed fit to play

08-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig at Adelaide Oval

Watson wrestles with Hughes memories

Though Shane Watson admitted to suffering flashbacks of Hughes' death, he said he would be ready for the Adelaide Test come Tuesday

07-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig in Adelaide

Lessons of Hughes' life unforgettable in death

It was a large and varied crowd that turned out to pay tribute to Phillip Hughes in Macksville, with several eminent names thrown in, but the farewell was personal, fitting and a good reminder of the meaning of life

03-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig in Macksville

'It's going to be pretty bloody hard' - Harris

Ryan Harris said he will decide if he is ready to play the Adelaide Test after attending team-mate Phillip Hughes' funeral

02-Dec-2014•Daniel Brettig

Hughes funeral on December 3; Gabba Test delayed

Cricket Australia has announced that the first Test match between Australia and India will not start on December 4 as scheduled

29-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

'Our dressing room will never be the same' - Clarke

Australia's distraught captain Michael Clarke has spoken about Phillip Hughes on behalf of the national team at the SCG

28-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Players gather in Sydney to grieve

There has never been a team meeting quite like it. Australia's Test squad met in the SCG dressing room on Friday morning, as they and their forebears have done hundreds of times over the past century or more. This time, it was to mourn for Phillip Hughes.

28-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Clarke goes above and beyond

Through the Hughes family's ordeal, Michael Clarke was a constant presence, fighting his own grief but equally doing his best to comfort and console, when little of either could be found anywhere

27-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Phillip Hughes: Country kid who moved a nation

Likeable, hard-working and skilful, it was a matter of time before Phillip Hughes cemented his spot in the Australian Test team. Then, improbably and inconsolably, his time ran out

27-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Counselling over cricket - ACA boss

No date has been set for Australia's cricketers to go back to work as the shock created by Phillip Hughes' critical head injury evolved into widespread grief around the country on Wednesday

26-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

We've all been hit

Going out to play cricket today would have been near enough to impossible. Even doing so next week in the nets and at the Gabba for the first Test will be difficult

26-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Hughes still critical, Sheffield Shield round abandoned

Phillip Hughes remained in a critical condition in hospital on Wednesday afternoon, nearly 24 hours after being struck in the head by a bouncer during a Sheffield Shield match at the SCG

25-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Distraught players offered counselling for Hughes blow

Players from both South Australia and New South Wales have been offered counselling after the traumatic events that befell Phillip Hughes at the SCG

25-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

Clarke issued 'please explain'

James Sutherland, the CA chief executive, will ask for an explanation from Michael Clarke about why he continued to plan for a grade-match appearance despite advice to the contrary from the national selectors

25-Nov-2014•Daniel Brettig

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