Australian cricket captain Michael Clarke arrived in Phillip Hughes' home town in northern New South Wales on Monday to help his best mate's parents, Greg and Virginia, prepare for Wednesday's funeral in Macksville.
Clarke, 33, has won wide admiration for the leadership he has shown throughout the ordeal, including from the Prime Minister during a parliamentary condolence motion.
His trip to Macksville comes as Cricket Australia confirmed the first test match of the summer will take place in Adelaide on December 9, the ABC reports.
As Australian players struggle to cope with the grief of losing their close mate and Indian officials confirming they will work with whatever rescheduling is proposed by Cricket Australia.
It has now been announced that Adelaide - at Phillip Hughes' home ground - will now host the first test match of the summer next week, starting on Tuesday rather than the previously slotted Friday.
That would see the Brisbane match between Australia and India squeezed in before the Boxing Day Test, with a start on Wednesday, December 17.
Too grief stricken to finish reading out a tribute at a media conference on Saturday, Clarke summed up how distraught he was on Instagram on Sunday morning by saying: 'What I would give for just one more day.'
The photos illustrate the irreplaceable bond that the two cricketers had as Clarke flooded his Instagram account with the fun times they shared both on and off the field.
One photo of the two cricketers on the field has the words: 'You will stand with me every time I walk out onto that ground.'
'Brothers for life' is the comment Clarke posted next to a selfie a night out where he jokingly described them as the 'KINGS of Trivia Night'.
