Another nominee for the homeruns and hailmary's man of the year with the homeruns and hailmary's man for March.
Phil Hughes:
Australian Cricket selectors throughout the years have been notoriously conservative rarely do they pick people just out of their teens in test match squads and rarely do they get picked in the starting XI, but when a 20 year old Phillip Hughes scores 891 runs from 13 innings @ 74.25 in a struggling NSW shield side the selectors hand was almost forced.
the selectors must have been worried 10 minutes into the South African test series when Hughes was back in the sheds for a duck after getting caught behind playing a jumping cut shot, but anyone who has the confidence and panache to play a jumping cut shot 4 balls into their test career isnt something to worry about its someting to fear.
Hughes next innings of 75 spokes volumes showing that he was able to put the 1st innings disapointment behind him, yet it was his remarkable second test that was unbelivablely his smashing 115 including two consecutive sixer's to bring up his maiden test hundred, then to show it was no fluke brought up his second two days later, becoming the youngest player to score two centuries in the same game and the youngest Australian since Doug Walters to score a test Century.
Hughes finshed the three test series with 415 runs at 69.16 and all but rewarded the selectors faith , showed he was a future 10 year test prospect and all this when most people suggest that he only has a cut shot.
But who cares when you can play it as well as him.
another worthy man for the man of the year.
