Cricket Australia is working with the Cricket Association of Nepal on an initiative to place a bat on top of Mount Everest in memory of Phillip Hughes.
CAN sent an email to CA chairman Wally Edwards outlining how it wanted to honour the fallen Test opener with a 63-over tribute match. The Nepalese have asked CA if it would be possible to have one of Hughes' bats, a piece of his clothing and a CA flag to take to the world's highest point during the next climbing season in March-April.
"What a wonderful tribute," Edwards told guests at a lunch hosted by CA, Cricket Victoria and the Melbourne Cricket Club. Edwards echoed CA chief James Sutherland's description of Hughes as an "Australian cricket archetype", saying the player's rise from the backyard to the baggy green "personified the great Australian cricketing dream".
"He embodied the stories we tell ourselves about what an Australian cricketer looks like and plays like," Edwards said. "We have always loved the cavaliers rather than the technicians, the brilliant improvisers who take risks and play with joy and spontaneity rather than those who grind away in pursuit of personal success."
