How cricket has changed since Phillip Hughes

As a new book on the life of Phillip Hughes is published by Malcolm Knox and Peter Lalor, Knox writes in the Sydney Morning Herald of where cricket stands a year on from Hughes' tragic death.

Twelve months on, the pain is undiminished in Sydney grade cricket, where some of Hughes's inner circle still play. His brother Jason and his close friend Matt Day continue with Mosman, his mate Daniel Smith is at Sydney, batting mentor Neil D'Costa is coaching at Campbelltown-Camden, and Hughes has mates scattered through Western Suburbs and other clubs. They might not be on television, but their grief is real.

Those who stayed in the public eye carried a unique burden. Johnson was not one of Hughes's closest cricket friends, but his reaction indicates how deeply the event cut into the soul of the Australian team. Michael Clarke, who became the public face of the grieving as the leader of Australian cricket, did not score another century in any form of cricket after his 128 in that Adelaide Test match. In the prior 15 years, Clarke had made 63 centuries in all forms of representative cricket; none beyond his 63rd.