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Video: The full story behind the #putoutyourbats tribute to Phil Hughes is moving and brilliant

Published 17:04 30 Mar 2015 BST

Updated 17:06 30 Mar 2015 BST

Evan Fanning
Video: The full story behind the #putoutyourbats tribute to Phil Hughes is moving and brilliant

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It's hard to believe that it's four months since the tragic death of cricketer Phil Hughes. The Australia captain Michael Clarke paid his close friend and former team-mate the ultimate tribute on Sunday when they won the Cricket World Cup, dedicating the victory to the '16th man' in their squad. This was the latest in a long line of wonderful tributes to Hughes Perhaps the most memorable of these was the touching #putoutyourbats campaign that spread from one home in Melbourne across the world in a matter if minutes in the wake of Hughes' death last November. Twitter have now released a short film explaining just how the world united in an outpouring of grief and respect for a young man who lost his life playing a game he loved and excelled at. The resulting film is moving and poignant. https://twitter.com/TwitterUK/status/581078977084686336  

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