SYDNEY (Reuters) - Cricket Australia has commissioned an independent review into the cause and circumstances of last year's death of test batsman Phillip Hughes in a bid to prevent anything similar happening in the future.
Australia was engulfed in a wave of mourning after Hughes, 25, died from catastrophic injuries on Nov. 27 last year, two days after he was struck in the neck by a ball during a domestic Sheffield Shield match at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
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