He’s played a couple of seasons of domestic cricket, one Test series and a bit of second division county cricket. He’s been exceptional, but his is not a record that matches up to Ricky Ponting’s for example. If Phil Hughes were to get ‘found out’, it would most likely happen in Test cricket and if that did happen, it would be unlikely to happen in the first Test series in which he played. It might happen in the second.
He’ll probably score a good few runs, but let’s see, shall we? Australia have a handful of other batsmen to worry about, after all.
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