The inquest also raised questions about sledging and the spirit of the game. "From the start we really believed it was a tragic accident that occurred on the cricket field and there really wasn't that much that could have been done about it in the circumstances and I think that's what the coroner's found, but at the same time what we want is for the game to be in a place where that sort of thing is far less likely to ever happen again and we'll implement recommendations as we have done from other separate reviews we've conducted ourselves." "Through the proceedings a few weeks ago it was reasonably clear to us it would be something along those lines," he said. The New South Wales coroner Michael Barnes, QC, concluded that Hughes' death was a tragic workplace accident, a finding Sutherland said he had expected. In this case for Sheffield Shield cricket we'll obviously review where there are some grey areas and fix it from there." They're the absolute starting point for everyone, and then each competition has their own playing regulations. The foundation for how the game's played everywhere are the laws of the game. "The extension applies down through the grades and in community cricket. His findings come from when Simon Taufel was on the stand and was questioned, and that obviously gives rise to something we will pursue and fix up. "So we'll have a close look at that to understand exactly what that was. "I think that by extension because our Shield playing conditions are virtually a mirror of Test cricket playing conditions there is some relevance to international cricket and therefore the ICC. "The observation of the coroner is there's some ambiguity between the laws of the game and our playing conditions for Sheffield Shield cricket which were specifically under review by the coroner," Sutherland told ABC Radio. Sutherland said the structure of the game's laws would mean any changes could not be limited to the Sheffield Shield alone, with implications for international cricket and also the tiers below the first-class arena. Taufel had told the inquest that it was difficult to define exactly how many short balls Hughes had received because not all of them fitted the definition set out in the laws. James Sutherland, the Cricket Australia chief executive, acknowledged that Taufel's query about the definitions of short-pitched and dangerous bowling would necessitate a discussion involving the ICC and the MCC - traditional keepers of the laws of cricket - about changing the definition of a bouncer from a ball passing between shoulder and head height in the standing position. Cricket's definition of the bouncer is set to be globally redrawn following a key recommendation of the Phillip Hughes inquest, stemming from testimony from the ICC umpires training manager Simon Taufel.
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