Stuart Broad: There are no positives to take from Phillip Hughes’s death

The England fast bowler, who knows what it’s like to be hit as a Test batsman, has struggled to come to terms with the tragic death of the young Australian

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Stuart Broad returns to work on Tuesday morning but he is still consumed by thoughts and memories of Phil Hughes. “I’ve struggled quite a bit with it,” the England opening bowler says as he describes his natural reaction to the death last week of Hughes, the Australian batsman who was his Ashes rival and his admired contemporary in the often brutal arena of Test match cricket. Broad is about to begin a two-week training camp for England’s fast bowlers in South Africa but his mind is locked on the terrible fate of Hughes who was struck by a ball while batting last Tuesday.

The moving tributes from around the world will continue with Hughes’ funeral on Wednesday. His family and friends are lost in grief but shock and sadness has enveloped cricket wherever it is played. It feels especially sobering to talk about Hughes with Broad, a bouncer-wielding bowler whose task has always been to unsettle and even intimidate aggressive batsmen such as the young Australian.

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