Phil Hughes: Should Australia cancel the First Test match? Phillip Hughes is struck on the head by a delivery during the Sheffield Shield match NSW v SA at the SCG. FORMER Test cricketer Brendon Julian believes the First Test between Australian and India in Brisbane next week could be cancelled in the wake of Phillip Hughes" shocking head injury. As Hughes continues his fight at St Vincent's Hospital after being hit in the head by a bouncer on Tuesday, questions are being raised about whether his close friends in the Australian team will be mentally prepared for the game, which is scheduled to start on Thursday. Depending what happens in the next 24 or 48 hours ... I think it will be affected," Julian said. It has the potential really for them to abandon that Test match. I think it would be very hard for the players to get up for it. What is it, Thursday today? I just can't see those players getting on a plane and going to Brisbane. This is an extraordinary situation. It's not as though someone has been hit in the head and gone to hospital and is making a good recovery or something like that. At this stage it doesn't look good and I think Cricket Australia - although they won't make a decision at the moment - I think it's got the potential for that Test match not to go ahead. Let alone the first two Test matches. I can't see how players would be in (the right) mental state of mind to play a Test match ... that would be the furthest thing from their minds at the moment. Phillip Hughes. Former Australian captain Allan Border believes the game should still go ahead, but any players who don't feel up to playing should be given the option to sit out. David Warner, Brad Haddin, Nathan Lyon and Shane Watson were playing for New South Wales in the game against South Australia when Hughes was hit and have all been named in Australia's Test squad. "I don't think the game will be cancelled," Border said. I think there's individuals that were out on the field and are close friends of Phillip that might not be feeling like playing cricket at the moment. I'd say it would be one of those situations where the Australian cricket board probably allow them to stand down. Still have a team out on the park but obviously if people are feeling not up to it, giving them that option. Particularly the guys that were out on the field at the time that are named in the Test squad, they might not be feeling like playing cricket at the moment - and you'd understand if they wanted to pull out of the game. But I think the game should go ahead ... I get the feeling Phillip would want the game to go ahead. Brad Haddin leaves St. Vincent's Hospital after visiting Hughes on Wednesday. Shane Watson and wife Lee Furlong leave St Vincent's hospital after visiting Phil Hughes on Wednesday. Australian Cricket Captain Michael Clarke arrives at St Vincents Hospital on Thursday morning. Veteran cricket writer Robert Craddock said planning was continuing to go ahead for the game, but he wasn't confident it would be played. "At the moment it is all systems go, but you just never know," Craddock said. We're seeing a situation we've never had to deal with before. Players" minds are not on cricket and depending how Phil's condition stays like it is (you could be) running into next week and half the team were involved in some way directly. I think it's a question that's got to be asked of the players. Do you feel up to playing this Test? And certainly any player that said "I cannot do it, I cannot play this Test" deserves a very sympathetic hearing and they could easily be rested on passionate grounds. My gut feeling is the Test will probably go ahead but I don't say that with confidence because we're in territory we've never visited before. Originally published as Should we cancel the first Test?