Funeral to held in home town on Wednesday
Funeral service will be held in sports hall of Macksville High School
Sydney: The funeral of the deceased Australian cricketer Phillip Hughes will be held on December 3 in his home town of Macksville in northern New South Wales. The service will be held in the sports hall of Macksville High School where Hughes was educated. It will be broadcast live by the Nine Network with provisions made for all other television networks, according to Cricket Australia.
ABC Local Radio and the Fairfax Radio Network will also broadcast the service live around the country. It will also be streamed live on Cricket Australia’s website and app.“We are grateful to the Australian community for the overwhelming show of support it has extended to the Hughes family in recent days. The offers of assistance for Wednesday’s service have been remarkable,” CA Chief Executive James Sutherland said in a release.
Cricket Australia has also asked for the privacy of the Hughes’ family and friends to be respected. The SCG Trust and Adelaide Oval will also show Hughes’ funeral service live on their big screens.