Phillip Hughes - ODI achiever

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Phillip Joel Hughes who is the first class Opening batsman from the Australian cricket team. His nickname is Hughesy. He is a left hand batsman and off break right arm bowler. His major teams are Australia A, Australia Under-19s, Middlesex, New South Wales, Western Suburbs, Worcestershire and Australia team. His domestic team is South Australia and Worcestershire. Philip is the number one Australia's batsman since 2009 test debut against South Africa. In 2010/2011 Ashes Series, Philip has been performed poorly in this series. In 2010 Australia team played against Pakistan in Jan and then played against New Zealand in March where he scored 86 runs not out in his second innings. During the Australian tour of South Africa he scored 88 and also in the 2010/2011 season he played for New South Wales team and scored 126.

In 2012 he was signed Worcestershire team and placed in 3rd position in the first class cricket, 100 in T20, 83 in One Day International. In the year 2007 he was rewarded as a Rising Star Award. In the year 2009 he bagged Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year and also in the 2008/2009 season he was adjudged Sheffield Shield Player award. In 2013, he bagged Domestic player of the year title. He is the first Australian player in the record of the ODI cricket match to score a century on debut and also he is the first batsman who scored the sequence centuries in test match achieved Durban against S Africa. In List A career he was playing against Victoria team at the Melbourne Ground he can't able to play in this match because of some injury. The Phillip Hughes profile  was more popular when he got the first time century in the history of test debut. He played for first class debut and scored 50. In the 2009 he played for Middlesex against Warwickshire he scored century 119. He played totally 23 tests, 10 ODI's, 94 First Class, 71 List A and 26 Twenty20 matches with good scores.

In 2013, Test debut India beats Australia in Border Gavaskar Trophy 3rd test he grabbed only 2 and MA Starc scored 99 runs to gain the score points for the Australian team. In ODI series 2013 Australia beat West Indies by 17 runs Hughes scored 29. AC Voges scored century112 not out. The Australian Cricket team has the wonderful and youngest ODI player. In the year 2013 Mohali Test Australia Vs India, he scored run average of 39.72 for the home Australia team of about 993 runs in 14 test matches and average 24.00 in tests.

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