Phillip Hughes death: One year on, how has cricket changed?

By Malcolm Knox
Updated November 21 2015 - 2:08am, first published 1:46am
Mates: Hughes and Mitch Johnson look on from the balcony  during day one of the first Ashes Test in Cardiff in 2009. Photo: Getty Images
Mates: Hughes and Mitch Johnson look on from the balcony during day one of the first Ashes Test in Cardiff in 2009. Photo: Getty Images
Funeral: Michael Clarke pays his respects.
Funeral: Michael Clarke pays his respects.

Mitchell Johnson's admission that the death of Phillip Hughes changed his thinking about cricket has peeled back some of the scar tissue covering deep and lifelong wounds in Australian cricket. "It still hurts to this day," Johnson said. Thinking about the short-pitched bowling of which he was such a feared exponent, he asked himself, "Was I doing the right thing? You know, was I playing in the spirit of the game?"

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