Adelaide Test: Australia players honour Philip Hughes and Ian Redpath by wearing black armbands

Hughes, who played 26 Tests for Australia, scored 1,535 runs, including three centuries, as well as 25 ODIs and one T20I, hailed from Macksville, a small town in the Nambucca Valley, New South Wales.

Cricket Australia had announced plans to honour Hughes on the 10th anniversary of his death during the second Test of the Border-Gavaskar series. A short documentary film was shown at the Adelaide Oval before the game began. Last week, the Sheffield Shield also honoured Hughes by wearing black armbands.

In a conversation with Codesports, Cooper, a former South Australian batsman, recalled his days spent with Hughes. He shared a story about Hughes celebrating a cow’s victory at a competition after scoring a century in a domestic match at the MCG.

“Coops, get your clothes on, we’re going out. My heifer’s just won at the Macksville Show!” Cooper recalled. “So we were out because one of his cows had just won first prize, not because he’d just scored a hundred. He had the bling and loved the bright lights. But he talked with his mum and dad every day. Everything was about his cows. He had his farm setup. He talked about that more than cricket. If his cow didn’t win, he’d be shattered. But with cricket, and obviously, he was mentally strong, it was just a game,” Cooper said in his chat with Codesports.