New South Wales and Tasmania players and coaching staff have paid their respects to Phillip Hughes alongside match umpires during a touching minute's silence ahead of the final day of their Sheffield Shield clash.

Most cricket lovers will remember where they were on November 27 2014, when they learnt that Phillip Hughes had died after two agonising days of hoping for better news from Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital.

In 2014, Darren Lehmann answered the phone with news that would bear one of the most tragic moments in Australian sport. In a time when Australia is now searching for a Test opener, Phil Hughes should have been entering the twilight of his Test career.