Sean Abbott reaches out to boy involved in fatal cricket accident that killed Ben Austin

Australian cricketer Sean Abbott, who bowled the ball that killed former Test star Phil Hughes, has visited the young Melbourne player involved in the fatal accident that killed Ben Austin.

The cricket community has united in grief over the death of 17-year-old Austin, who was hit in the head by a ball on Tuesday afternoon in Ferntree Gully and died the following day.

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In 2014, Hughes was hit in the neck by a short ball bowled from Abbott during a Sheffield Shield game. He spent several days in hospital before tragically dying.

At the time, the entire cricketing world wrapped its arms around not only the Hughes family, but also Abbott who, despite the traumatising accident, has gone on to carve out a suc