Philp Hughes is the son of Greg Hughes a banana farmer and Italian mother, Virginia Hughes. There isn’t much information about his parents on the internet.
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Hughes was also a talented rugby league footballer who once played alongside former International Greg Inglis.
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He played his junior cricket for Macksville RSL Cricket Club, where he excelled so quickly that he was playing A-Grade at the age of 12 and in Representative Cricket he scored a century.
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Hughes scored his first Test century in March 2009, aged 20, in the second Test March for Australia, opening the batting and hitting 115 in the first innings against South Africa in Durban. This made Hughes Australia’s youngest Test centurion since Doug Walters.
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