The NSW and Queensland players in the Sheffield Shield match that starts at the SCG on Friday will wear black armbands to commemorate the one-year anniversary of Phillip Hughes' death.
Cricket NSW chief executive Andrew Jones said the commemoration was being kept low-key at the request of both the Hughes family and the players because the pain from last summer – when Hughes, aged 25, died in St Vincent's hospital after being struck by the ball while batting for South Australia at the SCG – was still raw.
Members of the Australian and New Zealand teams, along with those playing in the other shield matches around the nation, will also sport armbands.
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