World Snooker ‏announces there will be a minute's silence in honour of Phillip Hughes ahead of the evening session at tonight's UK Championship. Australian Neil Robertson is among the players taking part in tonight's session.

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South Australia high-performance manager Tim Neilsen: "It will take a while to get over this - it has been a long three days. It's been hard, and was hard to break the news to the playing group earlier, obviously that wasn't good and was a challenge itself.

"It was a reaction of shock, deep down everyone hoped and prayed that Hughsie would come through.

"The situation we're in now is not one that many had contemplated until maybe the last 12 hours."

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Former England captain on BBC Radio 5 live

"He was a cheeky chappy. I was never inside a dressing room with him but I saw him around before and after the Ashes Tests.

"I always thought he was the kind of guy that you want in your team because he was a joy and played the right way. Because of the flamboyant way he played I always followed him to see what scores he was getting.

"He was a remarkable run getter and I believe he would have had a period of dominance in Test cricket."

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Former England captain on BBC Radio 5 live

"It's still very difficult to comprehend what's happened. He was doing his job, batting nicely at 63. There won't be a cricketer who hasn't shivered and gone numb with the thought of what's happened.

"I've thought 'I've been hit many times' but I was lucky nothing drastic happened. It's a freak accident and it has hit home that cricket is a dangerous sport and these kind of accidents can happen."

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BBC Radio 5 live's special tribute programme to Phillip Hughes is under way. You can listen by clicking the 'Live Coverage' tab on this page in the next few minutes.

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Golfers competing at the Australian Open will show their respect to Phillip Hughes during play on Friday.

All players will wear a black ribbon in the second round at The Australian Golf Club.

Championship director Trevor Herden said it was a sign of solidarity in the sporting community as the nation grieves the loss of one of its top professional sportsmen.

"Not just as athletes, but as a community, the loss hit hard today and we feel it's the right thing to do to show our tournament and the players are right behind the Hughes family and the cricket community," he says.

"It's the best way we can show our respect at this time."

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After 21:00 GMT, the programme will be live in Melbourne.

Presenter Alison Mitchell will be joined by ABC's lead broadcaster Gerard Whateley and Chloe Saltau, chief cricket writer at The Age.

Guests will also include former Australian batsman Michael Slater and Hughes' former Baggy Green team-mate Adam Gilchrist.

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In about 10 minutes time, BBC Radio 5 live have a special programme tonight in tribute to Phillip Hughes.

Between 19:00 and 20:00 GMT, Eleanor Oldroyd will be joined by former England captain Michael Vaughan, BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew and Kevin Pietersen.

Dominic Cork, former Australia coach Tim Nielsen and ABC's Jim Maxwell will also react to the news.

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Australia's dressing room will take a long time to recover from Phillip Hughes' death, says former England spinner Graeme Swann.

"Phillip's death will hit the Australia team very hard, those close to him will be devastated. So will other players who came into contact with him. I know England bowler Steven Finn was a good friend from when they played at Middlesex.

"For his family, it is going to be world shattering. I can't believe it has happened. And the fact that he was only 25 - it's cruel."

Tim O'Brien:, external Phillip Hughes's death is tragic. A bouncer is bullying, threatening head injury. Would be banned in another sport.

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More from Matthew Hoggard: "It's going to be a tough road for Sean to come back. But Phil wouldn't hold it against him and would want him to continue his career.

"We've lost one person through a freak accident and we don't want to see someone else's career be lost too."

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Former England bowler Matthew Hoggard on the future of Sean Abbott, who bowled the fatal delivery which struck Phillip Hughes: "He's in a horrible situation. He was widely tipped to go on and represent Australia.

"As a fast bowler you use the bouncer to intimidate batsmen, you want to scare them. If you hit them you don't want to injure them."

'We Love You' is the headline on the front page of Friday's Sydney Morning Herald, accompanied by a picture of Phillip Hughes holding aloft his bat to Australian fans.

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The cricketing world is rallying around bowler Sean Abbott (pictured right) amid fears he may never play again in the wake of Phillip Hughes's death.

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Abbott's ball struck Hughes in the neck during a domestic match in Australia and the 25-year-old died on Thursday.

The Australia captain Michael Clarke and Hughes's sister Megan spent time comforting Abbott, 22, at St Vincent's Hospital. He has received counselling from Cricket Australia.

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This is the front page on Friday's Herald Sun. The newspaper devotes its first seven pages to the story, as well as having more coverage in the sport section.

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This is what the back page of Friday's newspaper The Age looks like. The Melbourne-based publication also features a quote from the statement read out by Australia captain Michael Clarke on behalf of Hughes's family.

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"During a 13-year playing career I bowled bouncers - hundreds of them. Hit a lot of batsmen. Top players.

"All hit on the head. There were others too. None, fortunately, seriously injured."

Simon Hughes reflects on the tragedy of Phillip Hughes' death and how the cricket family will rally round bowler Sean Abbott.

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The back page of tonight's London Evening Standard features a black and white picture of Phillip Hughes as well as a quote from the family statement.

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BBC Radio 5 live have a special programme tonight in tribute to Phillip Hughes.

Between 19:00 and 20:00 GMT, Eleanor Oldroyd will be joined by former England captain Michael Vaughan, BBC cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew and Kevin Pietersen.

Dominic Cork, former Australia coach Tim Nielsen and ABC's Jim Maxwell will also react to the news.

After 21:00 GMT, the programme will be live in Melbourne.

Alison Mitchell will be joined by ABC's lead broadcaster Gerard Whateley and Chloe Saltau, chief cricket writer at The Age.

Guests will also include former Australian batsman Michael Slater and Hughes' former Baggy Green team-mate Adam Gilchrist.