The death of Australian batsman Phillip Hughes two days after he was hit on the neck by a ball has shocked many.<br/> <br />But perhaps his loss at the age of 25 is most keenly felt in his New South Wales home town of Macksville.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) JACK CLEVERSLEY, LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:<br/> <br />"I feel really sad because he was my favourite player and he did really good hits and I learned off him."<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) TODD BARTLETT, LOCAL RESIDENT, SAYING:<br/> <br />"Shattered, yes, everyone's pretty down at the moment, everyone's still in a bit of shock."<br/> <br />Hughes' parents were seen leaving the hospital in Sydney on Thursday where he was taken with a pierced vertebral artery.<br/> <br />Cricket fans there and elsewhere have been showing their grief.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE)(English) CRICKET FAN SEBASTIAN PEARCE SAYING:<br/> <br />"My boys were keen to show their respects so they both put their cricket bats out the front like the Twitter trend is at the moment and we thought it was just a go
